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Making Your MFA Look Legit

By Vic on Mar 22, 2008 in Adsense

Quick Vlog on some points that I think are very important on the need to make sure you make your made for adsense niches look more legit. Goggle keeps cracking down more and more on MFA’s so we mus act accordingly to make sure we do not get caught.

Some scraper sites are created for monetizing the site using advertising programs such as Google AdSense. In such case, they are called Made for AdSense sites or MFA. This is also a derogatory term used to refer to websites that have no redeeming value except to get web visitors to the website for the sole purpose of clicking on advertisements.

Made for AdSense sites are considered sites that are spamming search engines and diluting the search results by providing surfers with less-than-satisfactory search results. The scraped content is considered redundant to that which would be shown by the search engine under normal circumstances had no MFA website been found in the listings.

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15 Comments

Denise on 22.03.2008 at 15:05 (Reply)

On your MFAs do you put a privacy policy on the bottom of all your pages?
1. Vic on 22.03.2008 at 15:29 (Reply)
  
  You actually have to now this is one of the things I am also updating besides the themes in my mfa’s.
  
  Good article explaining and also a free sample of a privacy page.
  
  http://www.jensense.com/2008/0.....y-adsense/
Denise on 22.03.2008 at 15:50 (Reply)

Got it done. Thanks!
1. Vic on 23.03.2008 at 04:24 (Reply)
Alvin on 23.03.2008 at 14:51 (Reply)

Hi Vic,

Thanks for all your extremely informative videos ! I just have one question. In your previous vlog on Adsense theme with a black background and a grey text, I wonder if it is acceptable by Google (if they do a visual inspection). I think that the dark grey on black theme is a great way to get more people to focus their attention on the ads .. yet I don’t know if it is too obvious that it is an MFA… what’s your opinion ?

Thanks
1. Vic on 23.03.2008 at 15:44 (Reply)
  
  Alvin that is a really good question that is why I said that it still had to be legible. The fact are think about this how many times have you been on a legit site that the color combination was not the best for the reader. So in a visual inspection it might be more important the rest of the things in other words the sum of it all does it look like an MFA?
  
  So if you have a visual inspection and you have the 300 adsense ads and the 500 affiliate ads yeah you will get into some shit but if you are prudent with the advertising you should be ok.
Pablo Palatnik on 23.03.2008 at 16:37 (Reply)

Hi Vic,

first, nice blog, looks very nice. 2nd, I think, obviously, it is important to make a MFA look legit, but even more so, we (the marketer) shouldn’t look at it as an MFA ourselves but rather as a resource for our visitor.

Sure, a few pennies may seem ok as a very short term goal but if you can take a bit more time and provide good content to the reader, not only will they trust the site and click ads, but probably come back.
1. Vic on 23.03.2008 at 16:53 (Reply)
  
  Here is my answer to this dumb fuck comment.
  
  http://bloggerunleashed.com/blogger-unleashed/comment-reactions/
2. Frank C on 23.03.2008 at 17:30 (Reply)
  
  I was explaining this to my wife yesterday. I know it seems crazy and counter-intuitive but the worse your content is, the less useful it is to a search visitor, the more likely they are to click an ad.
  
  I’ve got some older mini-sites that are good resource sites. They’ll get a CTR of around 0.5-2% on average. I’ve also got some newer niche blogs that have lousy content but are getting a much higher CTR, typically in the 8-15% range.
  
  If you want to create a resource site, that’s fine. I do this for areas, hobby and professional, that I have a passion for. However, you should be aware that the earnings from them will much less than what you would get from a site with weak, search marketing focused, content.
  1. Vic on 24.03.2008 at 19:58 (Reply)
    
    As you said Frank it goes against the grain but it is amazing when you sit down and look at what your ultimate goal is how easy you can understand it.
Shawn on 24.03.2008 at 15:22 (Reply)

Hey Vic,
Man, I am really digging these videos. I have a “newbie” question. Do you have any suggestions for wordpress plug-ins that could help in the creation of archives and sitemap forms?

Thanks, Shawn
1. Mike on 24.03.2008 at 18:52 (Reply)
  
  Here you go:
  Plugin list
  1. Vic on 24.03.2008 at 19:58 (Reply)
    
    Tnx Mike
Stephen on 25.03.2008 at 01:02 (Reply)

Vic,

It’s funny, but one of the basic blogger templates that you are offered when you set up a new blog is the grey text on black with lime or somesuch color in the side bar text (and adsense too, I guess if used on the page). Google games itself sometimes, lol!
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