Worst niches for MFA Adsense spam?

People complain about filtering out MFA sites. What niches are they in?

[tigertom]

People complain about having to filter out MFA sites from their Adsense ads.

Just wondering what niches you have to do the most work in, in case I'm ever tempted to get into one.

Vulgar curiosity, really.

[Jean]

This is an interesting question and I wondered about it as well whilst I was following Nitrous' experiment.

My sites are all in a travel niche and I don't see many MFAs at all, possibly because there is a big enough pool of advertisers selling real products.

[Andrew Bassett]

I should find out what the word 'niche' means. When I hear it, I think of a miniature monopoly.

I'm in the sports 'niche' and I haven't found any MFAs yet.

[Juan_G]

Well, it's simple. For example, I see few MFAs in my predominantly nonprofit niches, but it seems that people see many MFAs in niches with expensive keywords.

[anand84]

it is easy to guess one niche..that of the affiliate marketing..I wonder if you actually have some serious websites in that one.Sorry if someone is offended with that.

[david_uk]

I don't think any niche is safe from MFA's. "Where there's brass there's muck" as they (might) say up-t-north if they mixed the saying round a bit.

[europeforvisitors]

I'll echo what Jean said: I'm in the travel sector, and I haven't noticed any flood of MFA "AdSense arbitrage" ads.

[Tearabite]

my site is in the 'tech' niche, and i've yet to find a MFA ad..
I guess i need to click on more of my ads until i find one so i can block it... ;-)

(/jk)

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[annej]

They are in every niche that can make a little money. My hobby site gets scraped all the time and now I'm seeing MFAs appearing in my adsense ads so am actively blocking them.

They are usually advertising the product, not hobby equipment. The product is comercially made as well and is a common household object.

Consider if they can make $5 a day on an MFA site but have thousands of sites it adds up.

[tigertom]

Well, I recently blocked sites which I thought were sub-standard, so it doesn't reflect on me if my visitors go there. Didn't matter if they were MFA or not.

So far most people in this thread don't have an MFA problem, so maybe it's overstated. I can understand members might not want to say what business they're in, also.

I recall in another thread someone mentioned 'computers' as an MFA filled 'niche'.

[kartiksh]

IMO, Its niche independent. If you have more visibility and higher traffic you are possibly on MFAs target.

[Nitrous]

They target high paying keywords not sites.

Thats why you get "tabs" and links on MFAs to drug, loan, mortgage, etc pages...

[Jean]

They target high paying keywords

But travel is pretty high paying so how comes that I (and EVF) see almost no MFAs?

[andrea99]

Well, either it's not the problem that it's cracked up to be or those most afflicted don't want to divulge their niche.

[europeforvisitors]

But travel is pretty high paying so how comes that I (and EVF) see almost no MFAs?

Isn't AdWords/AdSense arbitrage based on the principle of "get 'em in with cheap keywords and get 'em to click on higher-priced ads?" It could be that it's easier to do that in some sectors than in others--partly because of what people are searching on, but also because of inventory supply and demand. (I'd guess that the number of publishers needing ads for MFA pages about home mortgages and computers is much greater than the number of publishers needing ads for cruises in the Antarctic or hiking tours in Utah.)

[Jean]

I'd guess that the number of publishers needing ads for MFA pages about home mortgages and computers is much greater than the number of publishers needing ads for cruises in the Antarctic or hiking tours in Utah.

I keep re-reading this sentence and I am not 100% certain of what you are saying. Do you mean that if a niche (branch or whatever) is not oversupplied with AdSense publishers it will not be able to provide very cheap ad space and therefore not attract ads for MFAs?

[Nitrous]

Basically...

In some niches you get say 1 dollar top bid, down to half a dollar in 20th place.

In others you get 5 dollars top bid and by 3rd place you get 10 cents! If there is enough inventory, (3 ad blocks on millions of pages) then the low bidding MFAs can get their cheap traffic.