Google banning "made for Adsense sites."

I've been hearing a lot about google potentially banning websites made for adsense. But how do they differentiate between sites that are purpose built for adsense and legitimate information sites that use Adsense as an income source? What defines an Adsense Site?

Are there any specifics of this potential ban by google or is it pretty much guess work at this stage?

 

I'm not sure. Maybe they don't have much valuable content? I never figured out how people drove traffic TO MFA sites.

 

I guess that made for adsense site is not a category created by google and defined by another crazy algorhytm but the classic meaning of no content website full of adds and with not vauable information...

 

a few factors if i not wrong...

1. wordpress theme made for adsense
2. site that displays adsense as soon as it is setup
3. site that display adsense ads everywhere

 

im happy for that move by Google. That only means that they value content for readers not for monetization purposes only

 

What's wrong with that? Just because it has adsense as soon as it is setup doesn't mean its a MFA site right? take a look at this. It has adsense but it has good content too.

 

The Google Reviewer Guidelines best explains it.

This is a document which google workers use when reviewing a site.

MFA is basically.. if you take away the content, and the majority of the site is nothing but ads, you got a MFA site.

Look at thhe google quality reviewer guidelines to get a good idea of what it is they are looking for.. or not looking for (hint)

http://www.sepguy.com/2008/03/17/google-reviewer-guidelines.html

Hope this helps

 

Wow, that's about the most useful link that I've come across this week! Thanks so much for sharing that - I didn't even know that those guidelines existed, and there's a real "seo gold mine" of information there to be sure!

 

Usually MFA sites are characterized by having little or no original contents. They are usually put together by copying the articles obtained from article directories and then fill the whole page with full of ads.

 

i have a blog in which there is no content at all.it has pr 1 also...

 

Maybe that's what this site is doing? http://www.myfyi.info is taking digital point forum topics with the first post for his wordpress theme blog. ads all over the page. On top of it all, he posts them under "Admin" making it appear that it is an original post by him. you wouldn't know it was someone else's content until you mouseover the topic title and see the perma link back to DP. He has no original content on his site. the whois shows bogus info. I found it because one of my google alerts came in and the link was to his blog.

he is stealing content for traffic only to push his ads in my opinion.

EDIT: Just checked on http://www.myfyi.info and the post I started in search optimization saying he steals dp content is now on his site. The guy has a PR of 3 from stealing our posts!

 

Google dont like MFA sites

 

I think those sites just put a small content and adsense all over the place.

 

Adsense team themselves said, that there is no REAL definition of an MFA (I think there was a topic and official reply right here on DP). What may be MFA for some, for others it may not be. Where are the lines between MFA and a real page? Each has its own views. One may say that an MFA is if you have, say, only ads above the fold, content below. But then again that content my be one of a kind on the whole web, and the users viewing those pages may convert a lot more for the advertisers. That's a win(advertiser)-win(publisher)-win(google) situation, so why would one want to get rid of them?

 

That is one of the best links for google related information I've seen for a while thanks for flagging up

 

Hi all,
there is another way that they could 'carte blanche' pick up made for adsense sites.

If you look in the meta tags a lot of the site generation tools leave a calling card - google 'probably' (LOL) know what these tools are and that most people using them are not 'their kid of people' - so if discriminate on that criteria alone you could potentially ditch tens of thousands of sites (if not millions).

Obviously I'm guessing that this isn't the only criteria but it is an obvious one.

Paul.

 

MFA sites are taking most of the revenues from legitimate sites. I heard it also lowers the price per click.

 

sites that trick users to click on ads. That's my diffinition of an MFA site

 

If your site have lot of useful content, then you do not need to worry about MFA sites.

 

I have to agree with you. The made for adsense sites or the automated ones don't have a valuable content.