I am curious about MFA pages. Do they generate decent revenue? Will they get you banned? I have quite a few domains with nothing on them at the moment and thought adding MFA sites might be a good thing to do until I decide to make some real content for the sites. What do you guys think?
Depends on what type of site you're planning on making. If it's just going to be one page with some fake content and a bunch of ads, then it's probably not going to get very much traffic and the risk of being banned is not going to be worth it.
Have you looked at parking services? They can do that for you until you get time to make your website, without you risking you AdSense account. There are a few around, sedo (i think) Godaddy, um.. I forget the rest.. if you are interested then do a search here for parking. There are quite a few reviews of the companies that provide the service, some are good and let you add pages, some are "set and forget" but dont give you as much control. Hope that helps Cheers James
I wouldn't risk your Adsense account doing MFA pages. You might get away with it but if you get caught it could ruin your future with Adsense.
There's nothing wrong in creating a site to make money from AdSense, from the sounds of things your not looking to put much effort into the sites and so there's your problem, they aren't going to be very good and you aren't going to drive traffic to them, so highly unlikely to make much money from them. No such thing as a free lunch MFA sites per se won't get you banned from AdSense, sites that break AdSense TOS will though and all because a site is made to make money from AdSense does not mean it's going to break the TOS. David Law
You're correct SEO-Expert, it is a fine line between MFA and a site that violates Adsense TOS. You're also correct in the part about "No free lunch". However, I've found traffic is exponential the older a site gets and the effort you put in to grow a site by adding fresh content, etc. pharcyded, as far as parking goes, unless your domains receive quite a bit of traffic (ie: the domain was dropped or expired but still has SERPS) you're really not going to make a bundle of money parking them. My recommendation is spend a few hours per domain and slap a Wordpress or Joomla install on it. Add a few original articles, maybe a few free articles, a post to a youtube video, some Amazon content, etc.. Most ClickBank products have reprintable articles as well... Update the sites once or twice a month when you get bored. For all the effort of going the MFA route you can spend a very little time and build a few decent sites over time that could easily make their registration and hosting fees back and then some.
I didn't make my blog only for adsense; I also wrote contnet for the benefit of the end user. So keeping the balance is good, I think.
I understand there is no 'free lunch' as I run multiple sites that are generating some sweet extra cash for me. I just have 6 or 7 unused domains at the moment that I figured was a waste for them to just sit there. Eventually, they will all be some sweet sites but in the mean time I figured every extra penny couldn't hurt.
As far as parking your domains go, here's some details... GoDaddy Cash Parking - Earn 60% of the advertising revenue on your parked domains - $3.99/mo SEDO - No monthly costs, but no specifics about revenue Parked.com - No monthly costs, but no specifics about revenue WhyPark.com - One-time fee of $99.95 for every 100 sites you host on WhyPark.com I did look into all of these programs and decided it was best to do as I mentioned earlier in the thread and put up some basic CMS, add a few articles and let the sites grow. From my perspective the whole "Domain Parking" thing is a racket that the end user (or consumer) ends up eating their startup costs and moving on. Just my 2cents
That's basically what I do, though use WordPress as the CMS which I have my own SEO/AdSense themes for so upload one of them and any trickle of traffic isn't completely wasted. Registered http://www.free-music-news.info/ in 2005 (when the first cheap info domains became available) and have not got around to using it. It's had that one post for almost 2 years now I really need to do something with it as it's PR4. David Law
Well I make sites to make money from AdSense (and other ways to make money, all my income comes from the Internet), which would make some of my sites MFA, yet I've not broken the AdSense TOS so there's no reason for AdSense to ban me. I think your making the mistake of MFA = crap site, all because a site is made to make money from AdSense doesn't make it a bad site for users just like a site made for users (so no money made from the site) doesn't make it a good site. It's no different to any other site an owner made to make money from (a store for example), if visitors don't like it they won't link to it, buy from it etc... and so it's highly unlikely to do well. So for a MFA site (like any other site) to do well it needs to be liked by it's visitors. Yes, there's a lot of really crap MFA sites, but most sites are crap, just so happens the MFA ones are trying to make money while being crap The recipe site in my sig has only one significant revenue source and that's AdSense, (working on others) I have no interest in cooking (I never cook), my only interest in creating that site was to make money from it. That site receives thousands of unique visitors a day, so must be doing something right and has made me almost $500 from AdSense this month so far. BTW I inadvertently broke the AdSense TOS on a site selling gambling books. I thought as it was books would be alright, but apparently not. Was told to remove ads from the site and the site was blocked from running AdSense (account wasn't banned). That was another site I made to make money primarily from AdSense, wasn't a great site, but wasn't doing anything bad either, the only problem was it's association with gambling. On a separate note: I used to run a lingerie site (my first online venture) and at first spent a lot of money through AdWords and Overture before learning SEO, it was funny I could buy traffic through AdWords relating to the site, but couldn't sell traffic through AdSense from the site I used the word crap way too many times today David Law