My experience is that Google does take care of those sites. I built a site using free content once and used Adwords to send traffic to it. It had decent articles but I hadn't checked if it was duplicated widely. It turns out it was and my bids for clicks went from a nickel or dime to $5 to 10. The site had useful articles not one of those "What you need when you need it" sites. Google also monitors to see that visitors can get back to your site so they are back button click away from returning to you.
They may get taken care of, eventually, but sometimes it's a while in coming and a number of visitors may become disenchanted in the meantime.
about the only time that google made a serious effort to get rid of mfa sites was when they banned some arbitrage publisher accounts a couple of months ago. that garbage has since been replaced by other trash sites, but now the pond scum tend to use affiliate marketing or yahoo instead of adsense... you may find it hard to believe, but some people out here do care about the reputation of their sites. thinking that google has a handle on it's advertisers is laughable... the legitimate advertisers like ebay use advanced statistical math to game the keywords advertising system, and the mfa'ers will never provide conversion data that could raise their keyword prices. when the mfa'ers tell google that your site traffic never converts to sales, guess what happens to your epc? it goes down. when publishers make less because of the mfa'ers, they pay less for their adwords advertising... screwing publishers over is in their best interest.
Don't confuse MFA and arbitrage. Even MFA would be an inaccurate term as some of the great sites were made with A in mind, how about we call it CFS or content free sites? Google understands arbitrage and encourage it. If you had any experience as a Google advertiser you would know that you don't get away with for very long. Also you need to consider why those so called MFAs are getting traffic, they must be writing better ad copy then the rest of those in your niche otherwise their click through would be low and they'd get poorer placement and higher minimum bids.
Bingo! I looked at some of the ads that were showing and they were PERFECT, I mean if I was a visitor on my site and saw that ad it would have been JUST what I was looking for. When I visit the site, it has nothing to do with the ad copy. Just a list of monetized links to other sites. Those are getting reported to google now for violating the ADWORDS TOS. Those are the types of sites that are most damaging, first they pay very little but, worse, I don't want visitors getting ticked off going to those sites because I know it upsets them if they can't find what they are looking for (it sure would get me unhappy) and it will make them leery of clicking valid ads. I'd rather not have those clicks, they aren't worth the cent or two that I get from them, even if there are a decent number of them. So, I find them, filter them, report them.
i already told you that stop repeating what i post. google just banned a bunch of adsense accounts for arbitrage, so don't tell us that google encourages it... have you been living in a cave? they got rid of some pond scum that was doing it, because adsense arbitrage does not convert well for the advertiser. go defend your mfa crap somewhere else.
figure out where the weak areas in your stats are. you can start by answering the question that i asked you on the previous page.
I don't defend mfa. You need to learn more about Arbitrage, start with Shoemoney's post and follow the link to his radio show interview with the official word on arbitrage from Google. http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/05/19/adsense-arbitrage-just-the-facts/ Come back after that and I will accept your apologies for the cave comment.
MFAA is NOT appreciated by google, however. Those are the types of sites I describe above. Sites that use deceptive copy that open to pages full of nothing but links and ads. Those are being booted from Adwords now (they aren't running Adsense after the last crackdown, but now use Adwords to get people to their sites which now have crap from other programs)
in a previous thread, i already disproved the shoe claim that "nobody was banned for arbitrage"... a very silly thing for him to say... so i'm not going to babysit your failure to read this forum. you are blindly defending your mfa crap with false information and twisted reposts of what others have already told you in this thread.
I don't see where Shoe cried Uncle in that thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=335912&highlight=danimal+arbitrage&page=3 I will admit that I have not read all 4,000,000 posts in this forum. You need to admit you don't read the posts that you reply to. Here let me make it easy on you I don't support so called MFA sites. People who understand business, understand what arbitrage is. I learned about it in grad school in 1996. Examples back then were mostly foreign exchange. Do you have a problem with the L.A.Times buying adverts on KCAL and then turning around and selling ads and stuffing lots of duplicate content for Reuters and others between the ads? That's a well established model advertising arbitrage model, creating sites with content and Adsense and using Adwords to increase the audience is just a new form of the same model. Here's another good indicator. Log out of Adsense and look for Adwords on the good bye page, is that Google promoting Adwords to Adsense publishers. Yep, it sure is.
A site promoting adsense with adwords that is legit and has other content is one type of arbitrage. I doubt those types of sites are in Googles gunsights. A site with just ads (adsense or otherwise)/monetized links that uses deceptive copy to get a visitor to the site is also a form of arbitrage, and it is one that IS in Googles gunsights.
My Adsense is completely bezerk. It's seeing half the visitors AuctionAds is seeing and I have it on one site more than i have Auctionads. the number of clicks has also supposedly dropped dramatically since last week. I don't know what's going on because it is the same kind and amount of traffic.
Do you have 1:1 adsense vs auctionsads ADS, a site can have one page or 10,000 pages, so counting sites doesn't really say anything.
"so called"? wtf is that? it's tbarr60 defending his mfa crap! what part of "After a thorough review of your account, our specialists found that your business model is not a good fit for the AdSense program" do you not understand? the facts are this: shoemoney was wrong, google banned some adsense accounts that were using arbitrage, period. we don't care how you make your money, just don't give us that crap about mfa arbitrage being acceptable, because it's NOT... it's a scammer tactic that robs advertisers and honest publishers.
danimal, You don't look to smart if respond to posts without reading them. No where do I state support for what is called MFA arbitrage. I only tried to explain what arbitrage is. You also would do well to learn how to use your shift keys, you'd look smarter. Also, try using periods, commas, semi-colons, colons as punctuation instead of using crap as a form of punctuation. Assuming you still have an Adsene account, do that log out thing I mentioned. Google encourages Arbitrage, it's a valid business model.
you can't even speak in complete sentences, but you want us to believe that you went to grad school? NOT and btw, it's spelled A-D-S-E-N-S-E, not adsene, lol adpubster told you exactly what's wrong with mfa arbitrage, but you won't even acknowledge what he said, because it doesn't jive with your mfa crap.
Listen to this: I got 1 channel with 10000 imps 1 with 12000 and 1 with 30000 ,thats already 52000,and then i got a few with 1000 imps,google sais i only got 46000 total!??