My adsense account is taking far too long to be approved...

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Hi guys I'm new to the forum. I wen through the sticked threads but couldn't find anything on this. Apologies if this is in the wrong place.

Anyway I recently purchased a bunch of websites. Basically they're micro niche sites which make money from adsense clicks. Now I registered for an adsense account about two weeks ago.

I'm not sure why it's taking so long to be approved. I have a hunch it might have been that I listed the site while it still had adsense from the previous owner being displayed on it. I've gone into the wp-admin, gotten rid of his adsense ID and replaced it with mine so maybe that will help. I'm not sure.

I have had a look at the adsense help centre but couldn't find anything helpful, also posted a thread on the official help forum but got no response.

As far as I can see google has purposefully made it so that you can't actually contact them directly. Their answer to the question "how can I contact adsense support" is referring you to the help centre and official forum and then adding:

Due to the high volume of emails that we receive, we provide limited email support for a small set of issues. You'll only receive personal replies from us for answers which can't be found in our Help Centre, so please search the Help Centre for your issue first. In addition, we suggest asking for help in the AdSense Help Forum where AdSense representatives and publishers frequently answer questions.

With no contact information!

So basically my questions are:

-What could be causing this?
-What can I do to get approval?
-If for some reason I can't get approval how do I reapply?
-Are there any options or avenues I have overlooked?

Thanks in advance...

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Hi,

Remember that we are just coming off of perhaps the biggest and busiest holiday of the year. A lot of major companies have been backed up. So chances are there are a lot of people applying since mid December.

I wish I could help you. My friend's ex-husband is actually a higher up in Google and he doesn't even know the channels for contacting people there! It's annoying, but they know they have the upper hand and really put the squeeze on us marketers.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

Good luck,
Adrienne