On MFA
A few months ago, most SEO and webmaster’s forums were full of people claiming that MFA (Made for Adsense) and other simple affiliates junk websites will be banned from the Adwords program.
For a short period of time, that seemed to be true and I saw a slight increase of the Adsense revenue and no more junk websites. Unfortunately, for the past month they seem to be all over the place again.
So…Google Guys those claims of increasing the quality of the Adsense program were just a PR stunt?
If this is not fixed, on the long run it will affect both publishers and Google. Publishers will remove the Adsense from their websites because their users are mislead and by that Google will loose advertising medium leading to less happy advertisers that will move to other networks.
I wonder what will prevail…greed or quality?
7 Responses to “On MFA”
By Cristian Mezei on Sep 18, 2006 | Reply
Razvan, you do know that the quality score is now MUCH MORE hurtful for MFA’s than it was before right ?
And anyway, you can remove URL’s yourself. Sure that’s time consuming, but it’s relatively ok.
By Razvan Antonescu on Sep 18, 2006 | Reply
I know those of course
But still there are too many…and the exclusion list is limited to 200 websites only 
By valerian on Oct 5, 2006 | Reply
Salut,
Imi place blogul tau. Am un site mens-health-events.info cu care mai scoteam un ban. Luna aceasta a cazut de la PR4 la PR0 si traficul s-a diminuat. Sa fie oare considerat un MFA si banat in consecinta?
By Razvan Antonescu on Oct 5, 2006 | Reply
raspunsul e ca 99% a fost considerat MFA. Comanda site: nu mai returneaza nici o pagina.
Greseli facute:
URL din 3 cuvinte-as fi mers pe maxim 2
Limbaj nenatural in pagina (title/linkuri/meta description)
Probabil ca daca ai apelat si la linkuri aiurea (comment spamming) sateliti similari etc a contat e asemenea.
Daca nu ai trafic din Yahoo sau MSN ala e domeniu mort
By valerian on Oct 5, 2006 | Reply
Multumesc pentru raspuns si timpul acordat. Nu realizam ca trei cuvinte sunt prea multe, dar cred ca pot fi interpretate ca spam. Cred ca in title am folosit de multe ori un limbaj nenatural. Nu am inbound links din surse ce pot fi considerate spamuri (am folosit doar articole, directoare si cateva forumuri). N-am folosit link exchange. Am ceva trafic din afara lui Google (vad ca G inca il mai scaneaza, e un semn bun?). Cum as putea creste traficul pe Yahoo si MSN?
By larry on Oct 25, 2006 | Reply
I know that there are many free article directories. They are especially designed to use AdSense. I can see that they have PR=4, PR=5 or higher and regularly indexed by Googgle, so they do not banned. I think that Goggle developed http://www.blogspot.com for people likely to use AdSense. Do you think that MFA are really banned? Isn’t possible to be banned for another reason?
By Razvan Antonescu on Oct 28, 2006 | Reply
MFA are a plague for SERPS. They don’t provide value neither to users and neither for advertisers. Ppl clicking on ads on such sites usually exit them quickly without a real gain to those that paid for advertisments