Blocking MFA seems to be working

[Hobbs]

No I am not talking about earnings this time.
I have been getting frequent emails from MFA sites requesting links!
My site is not new neither are MFAs, and I never received link requests with this frequency.
Looks like blocking is working if they are starting to pursue alternative methods for traffic!

[toomer]

I found this yesterday on a popular wine blog. The guy has a PR6 for his homepage, and an exhaustive list of "wine related blogs". Come to find out, several of them were MFA.

I pointed this out to him via email, even gave him a link to MFA on AdSense. His reply was basically a "yeah, I don't care" and "I'll let the users sort that out".

Little does he know that he's encouraging MFA by doing so. Oh well....

[martinibuster]

Most link requests I receive are from so-called MFAs. Has been that way forever.

[GoldenHammer]

[.....I pointed this out to him via email, even gave him a link to MFA on AdSense. His reply was basically a "yeah, I don't care" and "I'll let the users sort that out".

Little does he know that he's encouraging MFA by doing so. Oh well.... ]

Tell the webmaster this:

Anything (including the ads display) on the website are refering to the direct responsibility of the owner.

There is no reason not to block spammer ads. If you don't block and other publishers block those ads, then you are more likely and frequently to get rotation of trunks. We may receive a similar earning after appling blocking ads, but we keep the image and quality of the web contents to the valuable users/ customers.

[Ganceann]

You would also include the fact that by condoning MFA sites it is biting the hand that feeds him (if he is an adsense publisher himself - unless he is the one behind them and thereby would condone it).

Basically when Google step up the fight against MFAs they will go to the sources and ban the source as well as the MFAs

[david_uk]

I'd say that all the link requests I've had for some time have been requests from new webmasters trying to get higher in the serps by reciprocal linking. Some of them contain adsense, but mostly not at the time they ask to link. My site comes out in the top 4 on a Google search for the keyword. Sometimes I will do this if the site is of interest or value to my visitors, but mostly I don't.

I most certainly wouldn't link to an MFA, and I don't recall any asking me to! Mind you, I don't really read what my mail screening program is deleting :)

[bumpski]

What I used to enjoy was visiting the site requesting the link and viewing the source of the page. Many times you would see comments like "Put Adsense here"!

[Scurramunga]

Most link requests I receive are from so-called MFAs. Has been that way forever.

Same here. I always decline.

[Hobbs]

Most link requests I receive are from so-called MFAs. Has been that way forever

It changed from one link request a week or so to 2 to 3 a day.

And the nerves of some trying to get links to expired domain pages full of google ads. They must really take us for idiots!