Can We Monetize Blogs With Contents in Nepali Language?

Monetizing a blog means getting approval from Google Adsense whereby Google automatically runs advertisements (Google Ads) in your blogs. The ads may be displayed at the top, sideways or inside the contents depending upon how you choose. When your audience clicks on the ads, the revenue thus generated would be split to the Google and the creator.

There are a lot of questions regarding the language that are eligible for Google Ads. Creators often bicker about not showing ads in their contents. The first and foremost thing to be understood is that Google Adsense only has recognized 45 languages and the blogs are approved for monetization only if they are written in any of those 45 languages.

The languages are: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Japanese, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.   

So, since Nepali is not validated until now for monetization, there is no way that you can monetize your Nepali blog. To get the Adsense approval you have to create your blog in the English language with a good number of "original (not copied) texts" articles and the space of the pictures should not exceed that of texts. That means priority should be given to the textual contents not the pictorial. After you have a good audience by writing over a dozen articles, you can apply for the Google Adsense. It may take a few weeks before you hear from Google.

In my case, I got approved in the third attempt. Hence, don’t expect to get it approved for the monetization in the first try. After I was approved, I wrote Nepali blogs in Unicode Nepali. Google ads started to play in my blogs but later my blog was disqualified. It is a fraud because since Google has not approved the language. You can’t cheat Google!

What I did later was I created two blogs in blogspot.com; one pure Nepali blog (which was disqualified) and one pure English blogs (this blog). In Nepali blog, “Creative dotPen” I keep on posting Nepalese articles which I do only for passion. In the English blog, “Heartbeat of the Himalayas”, I keep on posting for the passion and the passion also gives me a the-nickel-and-dime income (very less!). Anyway, writing is such a great thing people invented. I love it. If you want to be a passionate blogger, you should also love writing, excluding all the odds. 

You write for passion, not wealth. Adsense is actually one of the worst ways to earn money through monetizing a blog. According to a reliable source, you will need yearly 2.5+ million visits in your blog to bag 1K USD a month.

Why has Google not approved the Nepali language to play the Adsense advertisements in the blog? It might be a good question, however. It is because there is no use of playing ads from Northern America or Finland or China for the audience who reside in Nepal. The Nepalese population might not be the target consumers of the advertising company from elsewhere. The Nepal-based companies that pay Google for the advertisement are very few. So, since the Nepalese online market is small, Google might not be interested to show ads for Nepalese, that eventually explains why the Nepali language has not yet been validated. If you use the English language then it surely encompasses a broad audience of the world.

The good news, however, is Google is constantly analyzing the market and there might be a possibility that it will be expanding Nepali language too in its valid list. The best example is Google Adsense recently included Telugu in its list. Similarly, we can hope it will include the Nepali language soon.

Another good thing to know is: you can even use mixed languages after the approval, provided the majority of the contents are in the approved languages. For example, I sometimes use Nepali in Unicode in between the English texts and the Google ads keep on showing. There is no risk of doing this.