Finding and fighting MFA's - another method

View a list of MFA's at Google

[farmboy]

In another thread, someone pointed out you could do a search at Google, append the search string with num=99 and you could see a list of up to 99 ads pertaining to the search topic.

I did that and it's fairly easy to pick out the MFA's just be reading the titles & descriptions and sometimes the URL's. If you have a well targeted page and want to avoid MFA ads showing up on the page, this methods provides an easy way to quickly identify a lot of MFA ads for the particular search term.

If there's any room left in your filter, you can add to the list. If not, you'll have to set priorities.

The sad thing is doing this also shows you how bad the MFA problem has become. I just did this for one of my topics and it looks like half the ads are for MFA sites.

FarmBoy

[Sally Stitts]

I can't make this work.
Could you please give an actual example that works?
Does the syntax require the leading ampersand?
Anything else?

OK, got it.
Let's search for ugg boots-
you get-
[google.com...]
Then add &num=100, so you get-
[google.com...]

Voila!

[martinibuster]

You will be adding sites that advertise on the SEARCH network, not neccessarily the CONTENT network.

[farmboy]

Does the syntax require the leading ampersand?

Yes. I'm sorry for the omission. Use &num=99

FarmBoy

[jomaxx]

This seems futile, especially since the number of sites you can block is limited. I recommend concentrating on ads that actually appear on your own website.

[Sally Stitts]

Thanks, Farmboy.

"not neccessarily the CONTENT network"
Ah, yes. I see. Important point.

[farmboy]

So forget about the help with blocking MFA's point.

Just use it as a tool to see how bad the problem of MFA's is becoming.

FarmBoy