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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?
No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant.
A site that has nothing but AdSense ads and links to more pages of AdSense ads clearly was "published specifically for the purpose of showing ads" and thus provides a Program Policies reason for removal.
That TOS term was there for years not new.
Google was sleeping before 20th May?
So let me get this straight, are they saying that MFAs where violating program policies all along but they still allowed them to continue? *smacks Google on hand*
No, they didn't say that. Read the quote. :-)
As for why they waited until now, it was probably a combination of:
1) Taking action when it was clear that the problem had reached a critical mass; and/or...
2) Waiting until they had automated tools to detect offenders, since a manual whack-a-mole approach would have been cosmetic at best.
What's meaningful is that they have taken action. (And if anyone here doesn't think that's meaningful, the publishers whose accounts were disabled aren't likely to agree!)
it is the advertising those pages on AdWords and on our pages bit that fried their proverbial goose.
I thought I read somewhere in the 2 dozen pages before this one that someone (trannack maybe?) knew some people who got the notice who were not AdWords advertisers.
Will the purge of the arbi crowd eventually translate into more legit advertisers on my sites? Hope so.
That would be nice. But I'll be happy if it just translates into fewer non-legit advertisers on my sites.
FarmBoy
That TOS term was there for years not new.
You previously wrote:
They have no TOS reason for removal, no moral "do no evil" make the web a better place scenario....simply money driven
I simply pointed out there is a direct statement in the Program Policies that provides a reason for removal.
I didn't realize you meant to say they have no NEW reason for removal.
Google was sleeping before 20th May?
Who knows? At this point, I don't see the relevance.
FarmBoy
why would they get rid of a profitable partner that converted for their advertisers?
I don't know their reasons, but my best guess is that the low quality sites condition the more Internet savvy shoppers not to click on ads anymore, if all they get the majority of the time are spammy landing pages.
Its like with dogs or horses and electric fences. After awhile you can take down the fence and the animals still won't go near it because because they have bad memories of what happened the last time they went there.
[edited by: Jane_Doe at 7:07 pm (utc) on May 24, 2007]
Google was sleeping before 20th May?
It's all very well for us to sit around and talk about how 'simple' it would be to identify MFA's.
If little old me has had one running for years now then surely a company with a few more resources than I have could have done it as well. Business is business and it made them money. Simple as that.
JAG
