It looks like Google is finally starting to do soemthing about MFA sites. Their latest AdWords Blog post discusses this. Which means they are trying to make AdSense arbitrage difficult for scraper sites. This is good stuff. I have more discussion at my blog.
Sounds like great news if Google is able to make it work properly, some further action on their part would be needed to stop the proliferation of crappy sites and the degeneration of their program.
If they do decide to clamp down on people using bad landing pages they will end up losing a lot of cash fast.
Indeed, it would be good, I just worry about them harming sites that aren't trying to be MFA in the process. I've been told mine appears MFA, when that is really not the intent. Of course, google has nailed me in the last 6mos or so, so maybe I'll just drop adsense, I wonder if that would exclude me from the MFA filters? Any thoughts on that?
A scraper site is a spammy site too. Scraper sites are actually 'worse' than such spammy sites http://www.ononeworld.co.uk/?keywords=loan&mkt=uk&gclid=CObp59Cyg4YCFU43EQod9kGnFQ At least they dont steal content!
A couple of days ago I said something about all these MFA sites... IMHO I think it will happen to them the it hapenned to the .COM a couple of years ago.
We can only hope this puts a crimp in MFA and scraper sites, but I always hate the short term pain changes like this makes on AdSense revenues. These changes always knock out so many advertisers, which can really depress AdSense earings. It took two - three months for my eCPM to recover after last December's AdWords changes. Losing 1/3 of one's revenue for a few months really hurts even if it means higher revenues because of better advertisers later on.
Here's a great example of what I'd love Google to give the boot to http://www.mlabogados.com/huntington_mortgage_refinance/. It has nearly 1,000,000 pages reportedly indexed by Google (http://www.google.com/search?q=site:mlabogados.com ) If this isn't a spammy MFA site, nothing is.