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For this day (17 May), does it mean that they will pay for April 1-30 earnings, or for May (1-18) also?
They'e been doing manual adsense bans for a long time for various infractions. MFA has been too big and widespread to stop via manual reporting and eyeballs. This seems to be a huge, automated sweep. Hats off to the engineers at Google that worked on this project. I hope they gave it a cool, secret-agent-style code name.
There is more personal (vs. automated) involvement in all this than one might think. Those of you have have gotten the 'Good' Google email will know what I mean.
1) It would add unreasonable and possibly fatal delay and expense to getting new very small (low-traffic, low-revenue) sites set up. Eg I just put up a one-pager based on a domain name that I bought in dot-com times but never used. The revenue will never be worth a human spending time vetting the site, but it is a site/page/reference that I've really wanted.
2) Bait-and-switch: user X gets site Y approved and then 3 months later switches it to p0rn/MFA/politics or whatever poison we/G agree is bad.
I still would like the option to whitelist my own domains that my AS can run on to protect me on the AS side, and on the AW side to optionally ban traffic by entire advertiser ID. That is a little of what you want I think, but is not the same.
Rgds
Damon
As recently as January Brian Axe, Google AdSense Product Manager said that Google was not against arbitrage and in fact they respect it as a business model. Brian clarified more by saying Google's main concern is the user's experience.
It's probably the landing pages more than the arbitrage that Google has targeted.
At the moment it looks like an anti-arb drive to me since I know at least one good-but-thin arb site that's being sent down the tubes...
Rgds
Damon
if this is a move against thin or empty sites (pages with little other than ads), then that makes perfect sense.
it seems to me that arbitrage itself is not against adsense TOS, but vacuous sites clearly are. of course, most arbitrage sites are vacuous, so this might be the cause of the slightly inaccurate discussion on this matter.
can anyone that received the email from google verify if they mentioned anything about arbitrage?
Google may be banning some accounts where the majority of the clicks are on arbitrage sites, or possible even the majority of pages even if it isn't the majority of the clicks. They might be giving (or planning to give) some publishers warnings about some of their sites if they are borderline. In some cases they may be banning sites.
Schmidt was referring to pages that were described as "arbitrary agglomerations of ad links," which is a reasonable description of typical MFA landing pages.
My guess is that Google doesn't mind when owners of legitimate sites buy traffic with AdWords or AdSense ads and users then click ads on those pages. For example:
Let's say that NYTimes.com has an ad on your site's widgets page with the headline "Read our widget reviews." The reader clicks through to NYTimes.com's widget section, reads an article on blue widgets, and clicks an ad for Bluewidgetdealer.com. That may be "click arbitrage" in a very loose meaning of the term, but it's okay because THE NEW YORK TIMES isn't just flipping traffic--it's providing a legitimate (and useful) reader experience, and Bluewidgetdealer.com is paying for a genuine click, not for a click that was prompted by the need to escape an otherwise worthless page.
They told me my account will be disabled at 1st June, and also added that I'll receive payment for all outstanding earnings in accordance with the standard AdSense payment schedule.For this day (17 May), does it mean that they will pay for April 1-30 earnings, or for May (1-18) also?
Honestly is google nothing more than a government front because they seem to have a problem keeping their word alot.
I don't understand how legally they could cancle anyone for "Search Arbitrage" what the @#$# does sedo.com and sedo.co.uk do? Every link on any parked page is nothing more than paid google links. But it seems these poor excuse for ad agencies continue and never get cancled.
Doesn't providing a page that displays with nothing more than google links go against like 3 of the Google Adsense TOS?
Help me make sense of this. Why are these ad host clients allowed to conduct business one way and their is a way of doing business for everyone elses adsense account?
Godaddy does the same thing.
How far will it go before the darlings of wallstreet take out their 23 million monday morning from google and 8 million from yahoo?
Are we seeing the end of a industry?
I guess all these tech stocks got to learn if you can't deal with a handshake and promises and can't deliver well your just not going to get money to parade a bunch of gullible teenagers around fronting your bs for free.
-Cheers I read every post but I particularly like this one.
"No thanks honey, I'll just have a salad tonight."
I hope there are degrees of arbitrage that skip through since I've changed from 80% Adwords leads down to 9% - almost all of which is directly related to selling my services.
