When exactly can you call a site a MFA site ?

Is it purely a site with no content at all ?
Or is a site with 5 articles also a MFA site ?
Aren't all informative sites MFA sites than ?

 

It's to do with the intention behind the site. If AdSense is added in the hope of monetising a site but the emphasis is still on content, then fine, many people just seem to cobble together some articles and plaster ads all over it.

 

Doesn't google ban these sites/people ?

 

Would the site be around if Adsense or YPN had never been made?? If not, then it's a MFA/MFY site!

 

No, if they're generating clicks that convert then it's in Google's interest to keep them running as it helps their profits.

 

So do you mean Digg.com is a MFA site since we all know that Digg.com will never be Digg if there's no AdSense. LOL

Visit Digg4it[dot]com and you will see a growing MFA sites.

 

Is that even allowed, showing google ads in search results?

 

lol, check the advertising link :

"If you are interested in being an advertiser on our site, please submit your contact information below. Our minimum ad spend is $7,500. Serious inquiries only."

hahaha

 

There are many more MFA sites than people suspect if Nintendo's defintion is correct. Untold thousands of sites would not exist if not for the possibility of making money through AdSense of other programs. In many countries, a cheque for a hundred dollars or more every couple of months is a terrific income. Those sites would not exist for the chance of making that money.

But, many of those sites would never be called an MFA site by a visitor. I have seen sites that people claim are MFA, but which look like plenty of non-MFA sites.

Then there are those sites which are nothing but ad blocks -- some of which use AdWords campaigns to drive traffic -- and many of which mysteriously rank really well in searches.

In my mind the definition needs to be much more restrictive. I like the notion of a contentless site, where content is not defined as links in a Google ad-search block, but allows the possibility that a directory is content.

 

I'd still class a site with duplicate content articles thrown together as MFA

 

Uh... would half the sites (maybe 99% of the sites) on the internet exist at all if it weren't for making money??? I mean come on... adsense is one of about a gazillion ways to make money on the internet.. from selling products to service subscriptions to affiliate and adsense.. MFA sites are no different that the "internet malls" of affiliate links back in the day..

 

Yes but with those kind of sites the owner had to make an effort to presell the customer. Nowadays sites are created to trap traffic with the aim of getting them to click on a link to escape the mess that's in front of them

 

MattUK, I found an excellent example in a search for information about online TV.

The site is composed of a non-clickable header graphic, a Google AdSense block on the right hand side of screen, three clickbank ads, and a non-clickable copyright footer. It is a one page website on a registered domain name.

Now, that is a MFA -- made For Advertising -- website!

The lack of content gives the site poor SERPs, but it overcomes that problem with AdWords.

In this case, I may have clicked their ad to get to their site, but once I realized it is just ads, I backed out rather than reward them with a click out.

 

That's true, you're a webmaster, so a lot more clued up than most. Someone who didn't know about AdWords and MFA would have been quite happy to click on an ad just to escape.