ridding MFA ads

What are some ways I can figure out which ads are MFA ads. I've read many different problems on here like almost 80 clicks and only $0.80 due to probably these MFA ads. I believe I came across a link to a site that would generate a list of sites that were potentially MFA ads, but it cost. What is a good way to find out what ads are MFA.. or if someone has a better way.


Thanks

 

Go to adsblacklist.com
Block as many pages as you want.

 

Adsblacklist.com hasn't been up in a couple days --- can't wait for them to go back live!

 

thanks. Like buddy said, it seems to be down. Any alternatives?

 

Best way is checking what ads appear on YOUR site. You can only block 200 so don't waste the spots with sites that have no chance of ever appearing on your site. Look at your ads, visit the advertisers (copy paste URL, don't click) and determine if it's MFA or not, fairly easy to decide after you look at enough.

 

Thanks. Now I'm not all to familiar with MFA. I've only heard on here that they pay low and you should block any you see. What is considered an MFA ad and how would I know if one truely is this sort of ad?

Thanks

 

Are there a lot of ads on the site, does the content look original (search for snippets of it in google and see if it shows up anywhere else) If the answer to both is yes, there is a good chance it may be one of those low payers. Block a few, see if your earnings go up. It's a lot of trial and error, but if you keep on it and continually monitor what is showing up on your site, you can get your eCPC back up.

 

So if I see an ad that looks like it would rank in google or an ad that looks like there are a million of them, those are MFA, correct?

And that leads me to another question while we're here. This "Page eCPM", I clicked the ? mark aside it and got a general idea of it... but I still don't really understand it. What is it? Sometimes (like now), it'll be at $0.01 while most times, it's at $2.00 -$5.00 and up? Does this have anything to do with click rate?

Thanks again for the help

 

eCPM is a way of normalizing your earnings. You might have 23 dollars one day, 46 another, and 55 a third day. But your clicks and impressions may be up and down and all over the place. the eCPM is a calculation based upon your impressions and earnings for a day and is what you "make" for every 1000 impressions. It does not mean that for every 1000 impressions you WILL make X dollars, but at the end of the day, it's the amount you averaged for each of your 1000 impressions.

It's calculated by (1000/impressions)*Earnings and lets you compare apples and apples rather than apples and oranges.

 

I noticed something...when I have all these ads made for adsense only I have much more clicks than usual.

 

I see that, too. In my case, the advertisers at least know how to write very enticing ad copy. When you get to the site, though, it doesn't reflect what was written. People usually hit the back button, and the site then complains about lack of conversion from traffic from your site and you may get smartpriced on top of it all.

 

But how we are protected against these people that only sell to buy visitors for their ads.

 

Competitive ad filter... it's mentioned in the thread numerous times about what to do.

 

I know about that but in my case they change every day and filter has a limit of 200 entries

 

You could ask Google to go beyond 200 filter list AFAIK.

 

Although adsblacklist.com provides a great service, I wouldn't block 200 URL's generated from the site because most of them would not be relevant to your site. I just type URL's into the address bar that I think are suspect and you can normally tell if they are MFA or not. Also you could then use adsblacklist as a reference to check if other people are having problems with that site.

Remember not to directly click on the links and instead type them in yourself. (or you can use the i.e tool).

 

Actually, you can see which ads you should block by seeing it on your website. I always do that manually.

 

I doubt a MFA can get you smart priced. they have no way of tracking conversions. A conversion would be a click on their adsense ads. Analytics does not track that, only conversions that take you to a specific page, like a "thank you" page, after a conversion (an actual sale or submitting info to a form) has occurred.

 

We don't feel / realize it until it happen to us. It was me, who had experienced that.

 

All sites like 8-TopSites or similar which show only searched results are MFA sites and you should block them using Competitive Ad Filter.