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I ask you to name all the positive things that MFA's bring us. I will start with my shortlist:
1) MFA's bring huge amounts of money into the system, providing publishers with income.
Without MFA advertisers, many of us would be serving PSA's, making zero cash. Many MFA's just bring money to the system without ever breaking even. The money they lose goes to Google and the publishers. Why complain?
2) Because there are so many MFA advertisers (at least, that is what people are saying) they bring stability to the system and they are filling the gap that is growing because of new publishers entering the Adsense program everyday. We need MFA advertisers just to keep up with the growth of Adsense.
3) MFA's depend less on economical fluctuations.
If there is a crisis in a specific industry, MFA's will go on advertising since they depend less on sales in that industry. And thus publishers will go on making money.
4) MFA's bring knowledge to the system because they are walking the line all the time. Why take the risk of getting banned if you can let an MFA do the job for you?
For once folks, think opportunities, not problems.
Now give me your MFA blessings please!
Well, there may always have good big figures to support a good stock price, but that are bubbles building blocks.
Welcome to the land of wonder, you will always miss yourself here.... :P
For those of you who want to play "Team Adsense: World Police", mind your own businesses. It's a democratic system and those Adwords publishers who don't want to play ball with a specific publisher have increasing numbers of options to opt out of doing business with them.
Incorrect.
The only tool we have is a filter of 200 URL's. That's been the same for at least two years to my knowledge. We don't have "Increasing numbers of options". One advertiser could have 200+ ads that we would like to block.
Also, I would suggest that playing world police is not the object of the exercise. It is indeed a capitalist market, and the desire to rid our sites of advertisers that seriously dent our income is simply being capitalist. Nobody is trying to control what Google show on others sites or indeed Google's search pages. We know we will never affect that and have no desire to do so. The desire is to maximise our income, and we can only really do that by blocking low paying MFA's. These threads are in order to try to get Google to offer us better tools to control what ads appear on our sites.
I'm going to say something that may be unpopular here. There are publishers who will always block ads that they feel are not in keeping with their site for one reason or other, and even if they payed more than proper ads, webmasters would continue to block them for the same reasons. But at the same time, if MFA's actually increased our income, that would affect many webmasters policy on MFA's. I'd still care where I sent my visitors, but if I'm being totally honest, if the MFA paid more then I'd have a more lenient stance on them appearing on my site. I suspect the same is true for many peole here.
So in short, contrary to your statement we DO NOT have increasing options to block advertisers we don't want to deal with. And it's NOT about trying to control the web, but simply to maximise our own income that we are doing our best to convince google to supply us effective tools to do so.
