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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?
There have been plenty of ostensibly classy folks in Western Cultures flooding the internet with swill for fun and profit, who started out affluent before this new opportunity came along.
Knowing how to rake in the cash isn't always necessarily picked up in a $17.77 downloadable ebook from Clickbank,. Some of what's been cranked out was done by people who already had the expertise and technology to pull it off. Or maybe they sold their wares to others.
They just applied their experience to an exciting new endeavor and were subsidized very nicely for a long time by we_know_who.
[edited by: Marcia at 7:54 am (utc) on May 23, 2007]
ps. Lacie, you have a very nice site.
Intellectually, I can understand that some MFAs, who made a lot of money, are angry now, feeling cheated by Google.
Let them eat cake. Or just sue Google for the emotional distress of being banned.
"Your Honor, I never would have had this distress if Google had been tough in the beginning and enforced its TOS and stopped me from earning so much money by MFAs and let me think I could waste people's time with my sites forever. Those slimy Google people! Grrr."
Sometimes if you're not aggressive with yourself on ethics issues, somebody else will be. It's so easy to rationalize what makes you money as being okay. If your mind is always the final arbiter on ethics, heaven help you.
Anyway, I think some of these MFA folks should be happy they were able to run their scheme in private with nobody knowing who they are, and that they still haven't been outed after the Google Crackdown of 2007.
Do any of these MFAers believe in their practices enough to put their name publicly to their MFA/arbit websites? Every big MFA I ever found abusing Adsense was always hiding behind a whois mask.
Oh, right, that's because they don't want to get spam. But it's okay for them to spam with their MFA sites.
p/g
you don't want to go there as it is not MFA specific
Well, 20% of the domains in my filter list have no contact information whatsoever, no snailmail/office address, no phone number. Sure, most of them have a contact form, but their WHOIS is "private".
In fact, I have noticed that especially MFA sites like to hide behind private registrations.
No-one wants to be on the wrong side of the line, so it would help to have some idea of where it is.
2) Do you feel proud of yourself that you have provided a truly valuable asset to the world and have been duly rewarded for your efforts, just like a successful fine artist would fee
I was simply responding to Marcia's reference to MFA webmaster who disparage other webmasters.
if the former, it seems we will be left with thousands of "blank" sites; all those urls no longer serving ads but still high in the search results. At least until the owners dump them or replace the ad content with something else.
If the latter that will be a great thing, for most Google users; as arbitrage sites are the bane to those doing searches and actually wanting to find content instead of ad-filled junk pages.
Or am I missing something by not reading all 300+ comments?
As was mentioned earlier in this thread I am willing to bet this has more to do with the soon to be released site cpc bidding on the content network and cpa program.
I have always firmly believed despite what the MFA/Arbi crowd has stated that they do not convert well for the advertiser and I have a good suspicion that Google does not want less savvy advertiser to know what has been running up the tab for the last 4 years.
Purge arbi then wait 30-90 days, then release site targeted cpc with 30 days of back conversion data for the advertiser which will conviently be absent of most arbi/mfa garbage which would probably have had almost nill conversion ratio but insane ctr % of there budgets.
As was mentioned earlier in this thread I am willing to bet this has more to do with the soon to be released site cpc bidding on the content network and cpa program.
I have a suspicion that this may be correct. Whatever the reason, the removal of the garbitrage crowd is long overdue.
