lol, google doesn't ban MFA sites. I've had hundreds in the serps and in adsense for a LONG time. It is in no way illegal either. I've seen MFA sites that look better than some of the crap "legitimate" white hat guys produce.
Exactly! Anyone that thinks google is "on top" of the problem is quite mistaken. Spammers will always be months if not years ahead of the search engines.
If a site is better than a legitimate site, then this MFA site ain't an MFA site . Seems many didn't check the link i gave, here it is again: http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=65166
So, I read it. The link just says that ADWORDS users who have low quality landing pages covered in AdSense will have their minimum bid price increased. Doesn't sound like Google coming down hard on MFA to me.
Here's some more of that gold: "Depression can ruin your quality of life. However, people who take St John's Wort to treat depression often find that it does a lot to alleviate their suffering. St John's Wort can be bought in shops." Gee, I could write a script...
Has anyone ever been specifically banned for making MFA's ? And if so, how does google acknowledge that in the "YOU'RE BANNED!" email ? The problem is that MFAs fall in a very grey area.
I don't understad how MFA sites make a single penny! When I accidently visit that kind of site (mostly during verification of site submitted to my directory) I immediately leave it and ban the url.
Well, J@sió , i think that you are giving too much credit to the average internet user. How many times have you seen someone actually get concerned when a pop-up saying : "You're computer MAY BE AR RISK!! CLICK HERE!" Not everyone has an understanding of the internet that we share.
Well this is a step against MFA, MFA owners will have to pay more in adwords to get their sites advertised. Most of them will probably stop using adwords. Plus I heard that there are other measures Google will be doing. Whether this is tru or not, Google is taking steps against MFA.
Ads from advertisers enter an auction to be displayed ona certain site. The highest bidding ads and hence the highest paying for Google and YOU will be the ones to win the auction and get displayed on your site. If you put too many ad units on your site, then both high and low paying ads will be displayed as there is a room for both!!! If you limit the number of ads , then only the highest paying ads get displayed
That's what your average internet user does. But, they leave it by clicking on the ads, because they don't know any better.
I never click an ad just to change my direction, even before I was aware of adsense and all the money making internet. I either click Back button, Close window button!! or type a url in the location bar
aah okay, but when you remove ad blocks, you will surely loos clicks. That is, if you were clever and you placed your ad blocks in places where they do not compete too much with eachoter, unless placing them next to eachother yields substantially a higher CTR. The smart pricing system is certainly a factor to consider, but since google only allows a mere 3 adblocks and 1 link unit to be displayed, I thnik removing one is not going to do any good for my sites. (Because the ads are all in places where the reader's eyes jump at when progressing through the site). I would actually like to have more ad blocks available.
search this forums, you will find many posts about people decreasing the number of ads on their sites and consequently getting higher earnings per day!!!!! Plus you won't lose clicks , actually you might get more clicks , this is because if you display many ads,this will make the visitors "AD-Blind" ignoring them completely knowing these are just ads and some even might get frustrated with too much ads everywhere ,so LESS CLICKS. Anyway, Why don't you try it ? Decrease the number of ads if there are many and watch your earnings
It is interesting to see people speaking against MFA's and listing their directories in their signatures. I have been pondering how many forum particpants have directories when their sole purpose is to sneak in some page rank, call it Made For Page Rank. I don't think they serve much purpose as a directory, do you go to these directories? You can pick up some easy page rank and sell links based on the page rank to unsuspecting webmasters (or ones that are playing along with the game). I assume Google will penalize these MFPR directories soon.
I heard from an SEO expert( I am not) that submitting to such directories might affect your ranking in the top quality search engines as google,yahoo and msn. There you go, another way by which MFA's can hurt you.