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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?
Are we seeing the end of a industry?
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?
DC71, I think you'll find that Google's domain ads product is covered by different terms to Adsense.
However making people hate them seems to of worked for them so far just to spread the disease.
It was inevitable to see owners of MFA sites come and whine about Google here. Google is not hated, by far. You have a grudge against them and need to vent? Fine... not that it'll help you improve your situation, though. "Google should do this, Google should do that..." come on, they run *their* company just the way they like it, and the majority of clients and users also agree with their politics. If you don't, find something else.
Sorry but no one will make me feel pity for MFA owners. They portray themselves as useful middlemen, etc (everybody likes to think they do something worthwhile, even thieves rationalize that they unburden suckers from their money), but building sites where the only way to literally navigate out of it is to click an ad disguised as normal content... well... that's not healthy and ethical business, that's a form of info-pollution.
I agree that one page domains (a la SEDO) with Adsense isn't that much better, however, most of their traffic is typed-in, so it doesn't really pollutes the google search results or google ads of other publishers that much.
After all, this is business they never had and advertisers do not know the deal or don't care--unless the pages suck and people click to get out of the page.
I'm frieked out now.....I have REAL sites that are NOT MFAs....they sell products and I sell advertising space...and I have adsense on the pages..... Adsense is not the main focus but yes I make some good money....
AND I drive traffic with adwords to many of the pages...
So It seams now that I'm real publisher who has a chance of getting canned with all this stuff going on....
We need a little clarification here....
heyday
Don't you guys think this will hurt the genuine publishers even more in terms of SERP?
1. I assume that MFAs and arbitrage websites know how to SEO and get high ranking in the SERP. That's how they've been making money all the time by optimizing their sites and exploiting loopholes. They are expert in this field, I assume.
2. Now, if Goog ban their accounts because of thin content, then I can only assume that their logical next move will be as follow.
3. Salvage the current Adsense account. If fail, then register a new account with another family member or friend.
4. SCRAPE sites with genuine content and SEO. This will ensure they rise above the publisher with the original content.
5. I've read somewhere that most of the content on the internet is not copyright. The Scrapper could scrape the content and register the copyright first. Filing DMCA is no use now. The scraper can bite you back and demand that you pull down your content since they are holding the copyright. It's only a small cost to them if they content can pull in tens of thousands of dollars in $$ every month.
This is what I'd think these people will do. Because the temptation of the Adsense money is to strong to give up.
But you're right, clarity and an official word on the issue would be the best thing to have right now.
Sorry but this is just the way it is.
Its no surprise googles weapon in this process is always hiring the right people, keep them like mushrooms and pay them to be pretty much yes men to just collecting whatever pitance they pay.
[edited by: jatar_k at 3:33 am (utc) on May 20, 2007]
Its no surprise googles weapon in this process is always hiring the right people, keep them like mushrooms and pay them to be pretty much yes men to just collecting whatever pitance they pay..
Where did you get that notion?
Didn't you know that google wins awards for it's 'people management' on a weekly basis?
Try a google search, you'll see ;)
I assume that MFAs and arbitrage websites know how to SEO and get high ranking in the SERP. That's how they've been making money all the time by optimizing their sites and exploiting loopholes.
No, they've been making money by buying cheap clicks and getting users to click on more expensive ads. If they were able to get high rankings in organic SERPs, they wouldn't need to spend money on click arbitrage.
