is this a MFA site?

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by web_dev, Sep 29, 2007.

  1. #1
    Okay, so i was searching for tips on driving tests in Canada and i click on one of these sponsored links. The site is just filled with links. I heard a while back that these are mfa sites? Is this guys making money when someone clicks on the links in his pages?

    http://practicedrivertest.info/


    Does google allow this? If yes, then how do you make a site like this where text ads can be shown like this?
     
    web_dev, Sep 29, 2007 IP
  2. FairyOfLove

    FairyOfLove Banned

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    I cant see any Google ads on this site ?
     
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  3. jkfriends

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    No. It is a parked website. Actually parked at parked.com.
     
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  4. web_dev

    web_dev Peon

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    so why would the guy advertise this on google sponsored links? How is he making money.

    I have seen many sites like this on google sponsored links where all they haev is random links. how do these sites make money?
     
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    Zerosleep Established User

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    #5
    Dude its just a Parked Domain
     
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  6. Dollar

    Dollar Active Member

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    The term mfa is bit grey in meaning.

    Usually it means a site made only for ads.
    Usually thies sites have garble content and look cheaply thrown together with ads placed around it.

    This is parked site, But I suppose parked sites could be "made for ads" becuase often a parked site just has sponsored links.
     
    Dollar, Sep 29, 2007 IP
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    yimplex Active Member

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    MFA is junk.If you want to earn long time income don't make MFA.
     
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    nextgen66 Well-Known Member

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    #8
    Only sites with adsense ads can be MFA's hehe...there's different programs to make money from parked domains like that one.
     
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    #9
    I don't see the text ads you're talking about. :confused:
     
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    It's so ridiculous that Google is allowing these types of sites as landing pages. I recently went through and banned about 10 of these sites from showing up on the adsense ads on my pages.
     
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    It is parked domain. But it is MFA as well.

    a site that mainly or generally made for AdSense or some kind of Ads network.

    I would say Yes
     
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    #12
    If you click one of the catagory links from this site you get sent to a page with sponsered ads, which is how Parked pages make their money. If you have an idle domain (no website), having that domain parked can be a way to generate some income, through revenue-sharing, while you are developing that website (a process that sometimes takes forever :p).

    Some parked sites do use adsense, but not all of them. I do not know where this parked site's ads come from, but it does not appear to be adsense.

    Your host might offer a parked domain program and there are many parked domain programs that are independent.
     
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    #13
    legal MFA site :D
     
    Adulu, Sep 29, 2007 IP
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    #14
    There are no Adsense ads on this website.
     
    manishkapoor, Sep 30, 2007 IP
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    #15
    MFA = Made For Adsense

    There is no adsense ads ont his one....Just parked...
     
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    #16
    does google penalize parked domains? Ban them i.e. ?
     
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    I can't see ads on web site.
     
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    #18
    there is no adsense ads on the site it cannot be mfa. May the owner of website had some campaign initially and then his site was offline.
     
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    Could also mean

    Made for Ads
     
    Dollar, Sep 30, 2007 IP
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    #20
    even though people say MFA = Made for Adsense
    the meaning is more general ... like dollar says ... made for ads

    certainly its a legal MFA site and its only purpose was for visitors to click on the ads ... and if the name was good I would say someone purchased it in hopes of getting it sold for big bucks ...
     
    Chios, Oct 12, 2007 IP