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if yes, is your story successfull?
Methinks there are a lot of fibbers posting in this thread...
Speak for yourself. The site that pays my mortgage and grocery bill was around long before AdSense.
"made for Adsense" is different from "made because of Adsense."
Couldn't agree more.
Like EFV, my main site has been around for a while. In fact, I resisted putting Adsense on it until late last year, when I decided to try it on that site and three others.
I don't really even think about Adsense when I write an article or a new page, and I'm perhaps lucky there are lots of good advertisers in my niche. I do see MFAs, but not too many.
Other projects on the backburner will be tackled in the same vein. If Adsense works on those sites, great. If it doesn't, I'll take it off.
Sure, a site should earn its keep, and if it provides a good ROI, even better. But there's a big difference between a site which has value (and I don't mean in monetary terms) with Adsense, and a site that retains its value without Adsense. Mine would certainly still exist if I took Adsense off them.
Speak for yourself. The site that pays my mortgage and grocery bill was around long before AdSense.
Good for you and I'm sure there are many in the same boat as yourself but such is the stigma attached to MFA sites, a lot of people will lie about whether they themselves have built such a site or distance themselves from these types of discussions. In all probability there will be one or two doing that in this very thread, hence my comments.
If someone doesn't know what an MFA is, or needs examples sticky me for a list of the latest 200.
If you think many here are MFA producers, so what?
If you feel the need to defend yourself for not being an MFA, why bother?
I might be thick, but can't for the life of me understand the point of MFA arguments.
But why would Google approve a website such as this?
Oh! How we wish we knew the answer to this central question...
But why would Google approve a website such as this?
Even if Google required approval of each domain in an account (which isn't the case now), there wouldn't be anything to keep a publisher from adding junk pages to an approved and legitimate site.
Really though, I am on the 'MFA's suck' side. I just had to say what i said to point out that many people make a website with profit in mind, while providing a legitamate service of infomation to the public for free.
I have emailed google a few times to have them check my sites for violations, and they generaly respond the same day. Usually with a 'everything looks ok' or once, a 'On this url (http://www.com/.html...) you have a heading above an ad that looks like your drawing attention to it, otherwise everything is ok.' i make the changes.
Point being, I take following the rules seriously.
I don't make much and haven't updated a site in months! But I see a great potential there. Motivation is a beeotch. :)
Adsense is driving my content creation in the hopes of profit but all the content I make I'm proud of and all of it is based on areas I am considered an expert.
I think the term MFA is flawed as it implies spammy intentions, you can be an MFA without doing anything sleazy. I feel "bad" sites are a subset of MFA's.
So yes, I have 1 domain and many pages on other domains that would not exist specifically if AS didn't.
I think making a site that is adding something of quality to the web is the way to go - regardless of whether you plan to make money out of it or not.
Not your average MFA but I am very happy for my rent and a few bills being paid off by it.
