Follow these rules and your ad goes live as soon as you submit it. An ad that breaks a rule is not rejected: it is saved as Pending, and an admin checks it. If it is fine, the admin approves it. If it breaks the rules, the admin deletes it.
The rules stop the same ad from filling every page, and keep spam off the site so that it, and your ad, stay visible on Google.
An ad that breaks any of these goes to Pending instead of going live. The message you see after submitting says which rule it was.
1. Write a real description: at least 20 words
Say what you offer, where and when, in your own words. A line or two is too thin to be useful to readers or to search engines.
2. Post each ad once
Do not post the same title or the same text again, and do not repeat an ad from a second account. To move an ad back to the top, use Repost in your dashboard. To reach more places, pick several cities in one ad instead of posting it once per city.
3. No more than 5 new ads in 24 hours
Reposting an existing ad does not count towards this.
4. No keyword stuffing
Do not repeat the same word over and over to rank in search. The same word three or more times in a title, or one word making up more than a tenth of the description, is held for review.
5. At most 2 links, and only to normal websites
Link shorteners (bit.ly, tinyurl and similar), Telegram and WhatsApp links, OnlyFans, Fansly, Cash App and Venmo links, and links to bare IP addresses are not allowed. Links are shown as plain text, not clickable.
6. No code or hidden text
Write your ad in the editor. Pasted scripts, embedded frames or hidden markup are removed and the ad is held for review.
7. No forbidden wording
See the list below. Wording connected to these topics is held for review even when it is meant innocently, so an admin can check it.
Ads like these are deleted:
The full list of prohibited content is in the Terms.