i was reading the articles about mfa sites, and thinking the way how to protect our adsense account from these hecks? and ideas, share with us pleas. how to find the MFA sites in our niche?
AdsBlacklist (ABL) (Check out AdsBlacklist at http://www.adsblacklist.com) is a relatively new service for publishers that carry Google AdSense advertisements. Ads Blacklist claims to be able to increase your revenues by filtering out MFA (made for adsense) and penny advertisers. They do this by creating a list of sites you can ad to your Competitive Ad Filter. The unfortunate thing of course is that Google's Competitive Ad Filter only allows you to add up to 200 URLs in the list, and there are a lot more than 200 MFA sites potentially targeting your site's keywords. As far as I can tell, Ads Blacklist ranks their list by the MFA site's Alexa movement. They most likely cross tabulate that with the amount of reports the URL gets from their user base. Ads Blacklist counts on the contributions of its users to report suspected MFA URLs. At lastglance, they had 2449 sites and 1865 pending sites (suspected MFA sites which have not been "confirmed" yet). ABL is a great idea, but is severely hampered by the fact that Ad Sense publishers can only enter 200 URLs into their competitive advertiser filters.
Doesn't Google pick the highest paying advertisers to show on your site regardless though? So if an MFA was going to be shown, but was blocked - wouldn't it have been paying more anyways than the site that replaced it?