Since you're talking blind, that is, without knowing anything about my site, it's simply a supposition on your part. The link you sent indicated wikipedia scraping. We already have wikipedia. Why do we need more? I stand by my statements that these unoriginal sites are clutter. They probably will not be maintained or updated if necessary. Again there is the issue of what is MFA. If you make it for adsense but intend to put original content on it and serve a purpose, maintain it, and have created something that people can use and benefit from, well, so what if it has adsense on it or even if that was the intent. I have no problem with such a site. I think this is more along the lines of what your "MFA" sites might be. I don't get that from the script, though, and I don't think I'm getting it from what the thread started about. Too many lazy people out there looking for a quick way to earn some money before they lose interest and move on to shake the next tree.
The point is the advertiser gets just as good a return as long as the visitors are quality. Where the content comes from, whether you mass produced the sites doesn't matter, so long as you have good traffic.
Unfortunately, I suspect a good number of the MFAs (the one's thrown together with stolen/unoriginal content) have visitors who just click to get off the site because they see it's nothing they want to linger on. Probably not a quality visitor. I can usually tell when I have a problem ad showing up on my site because the visitor returns about 5 seconds after he clicks the link, if that. When I've investigated the link, 9 times out of 10 it's a worthless site set up purely to display his own ads. We talk about advertisers and publishers and search engines. Very rarely is the VISITOR seen in the equation, and that is regrettable. I try to keep the visitors in mind and make the experience as good for them as I can. Without them, advertisers AND publishers are just building sites for search engines. Sites like the vast majority of those that are thrown together 200 at a time just make that job harder and degrade the whole experience. And we wonder why we see so many people complaining about 5 cent clicks. It's really small wonder.
Blame google, they allow a 0.01 CPC so don't blame people for taking advantage of that. And users have a back button on there browser if they want to leave a webpage, they don't have to click. Sure by mostly including ads as links on your site you increase your CTR, but again the user has the choice to leave in other ways.
True, but a choice between clicking an ad or a back button is 2 choices. Given the circumstances you generally win 50% of the time . I'm not saying I promote the use of MFA sites, but it definitely interests me. I think it does bring down the quality of the web, but it also brings up the quality of Google's programs. I think the 2 things are always balancing each other out just like anything else in life. Somebody takes advantage, the problem is fixed. Somebody takes advantage of something else, that problem is fixed. I think it's perfectly healthy to have all the bullshit that exists on the Internet. And besides, most people using the pre-made scripts are not making a lot of money. The actual programmer who built it themselves and knows the exact intricacies of it may be, but the actual client using it who knows squat about actually building it and areas to capitalize off is surviving on old news that doesn't last.
Probably 90% of people doing arbitrage aren't successful, but thats probably similar to any market. You could say most people who use vbulletin aren't making a lot of money, most people who use joolma etc.
Are you saying that your own sites are not even good enough to compete with MFA's? Or how else do they steal from you, you've lost me.
MFA sites are driven by Adwords, too. These dorks end up paying .01 to .03 per ad. Unless I'm using something like AdBlacklist and constantly keeping watch so that I can keep these worthless ads off my site, that's how much I make on a click.
there is tons of software out their to build MFA sites but they are also un needed if you knwo what you are doing. they arent ahrd to build hardest part is finding the topic.