AdSense Disabling Arbitrage Accounts by June 1st

[Freddy81]

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?

[Scurramunga]

Anything that improves advertiser confidence in the AdSense network is a good thing, but it isn't a panacea for every complaint about lousy earnings.

And advertiser confidence would have to be the largest potential gain to come out of this

[farmboy]

I don't know if what we are reading in this thread is factual or mythical, but there is one consideration for non-MFA publishers.

Unless Google also permanently shuts the MFA folks out of AdWords in addition to AdSense, what's to keep them from keeping the same ads on AdWords, sending the traffic to the same pages full of ads and just changing the ads from AdSense to YPN?

The net result would be the same for the rest of us publishers, we'll still find lots of unwanted ads appearing on our pages and end up with overflowing filters.

FarmBoy

Repeat earlier disclaimer

[gendude]

What I would like to do it place once cent ads on their new built sites <insert evil grin>

lol

That's one thing I won't miss in here - it seems like every few threads where somebody talks about changes in earnings (downturn, whatever), there will be some little arbitrage twerp saying "oh, you're probably making less because people like me are putting one cent ads on your site and driving traffic to our sites".

I know I shouldn't laugh/gloat, but I'm glad those people are going away. I was getting tired of blocking their MFA sites.

[gendude]

Unless Google also permanently shuts the MFA folks out of AdWords in addition to AdSense, what's to keep them from keeping the same ads on AdWords, sending the traffic to the same pages full of ads and just changing the ads from AdSense to YPN?

That was my first thought, but I'm sure Google was thinking about this as well and is putting safeguards in place.

It wouldn't make much sense to kick the arbitrage/MFAers out unless Google eliminated them using AW in such a manner.

[europeforvisitors]

It wouldn't make much sense to kick the arbitrage/MFAers out unless Google eliminated them using AW in such a manner.

Especially since this is likely to be as much about the AdWords experience as it is about the AdSense experience.

[sailorjwd]

"Little arbitrage twerps"

There are a lot of adwords folks with great sites who can advertise on content for 1-3 cents per click. One of the reasons they can is because they have great sites.

Perhaps too many adwords folks are blocking your (crummy) site and therefore you get all the low bidders :)

My site gets very few 1-3 cent clicks - of course I block my own ads :)

[hyperkik]

It wouldn't make much sense to kick the arbitrage/MFAers out unless Google eliminated them using AW in such a manner.

Especially since this is likely to be as much about the AdWords experience as it is about the AdSense experience.

I think Google has been trying to automate this process for a long time, to suck the profits out of arbitrage through smart pricing and landing page quality algorithms. The current action suggests that those methods have not been successful, which suggests to me that arbitrage may well continue by directing AdWords traffic to other advertising networks.

[netmeg]

Unless Google also permanently shuts the MFA folks out of AdWords in addition to AdSense, what's to keep them from keeping the same ads on AdWords, sending the traffic to the same pages full of ads and just changing the ads from AdSense to YPN?

Presumably the continuing refinement of the quality score. Won't happen overnight, but I believe I am seeing definite improvement over the past months.

[oneguy]

Genuine1

Because I for one have about 17 sites (all hobby based) and they all got traffic fast just by word of mouth, newsgroups linking, forums linking and eventually because of that googles search pages. If your content is worth having they will come.
And if its not they wont and you are in the wrong business at least as far as googles concerned!

lol. Yes, I can tell they feel so by the way they continue to hit my credit cards for large sums.

netmeg

Google is just about to roll out a new feature to AdWords advertisers, wherein they will actually be able to see which sites in the Content Network provided clicks, and how they performed on a site by site basis

europeforvisitors

Advertisers will also be able to pick the sites that get to run their contextual ads:

That will change everything, and I can't wait. I only wish they planned to make the reports available retroactively, assuming they have the data. I'll almost always take more information over less information, even if the information doesn't make me real happy.

[farmboy]

Presumably the continuing refinement of the quality score.

On the other hand, the automation attempts weren't able to keep out MFA's, misleading ads, etc..

FarmBoy