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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?
I will wait until Monday to contact them.
I've read about people getting banned for "Improper buisiness models" a lot now. Over here and in other places. There must really be a lot "victoms". My guess would be that G is flooded with e-mails by Monday, resulting in just a canned response if any.
It might just be a better solution to get to a "proper business model" first and than firing of the e-mail.
Just a thought, I'm not judging here.
Very likely this is an early indication of what will become a larger, more sweeping clean up.
Hard to know for sure what factors Google is targeting, but logically, they would be able to detect unusually high CTR's -- particularly relative to benchmark data. The CTR which any given ad will achieve will be measurably lower when it's displayed on a content-rich site than when it is displayed on a site where the user doesn't find the information the are seeking, and the only options are to click on an ad or hit the back button on their browser.
Knowing Google, I imagine they are looking at lots of other data besides relative CTR's, and their screening process is capable of becoming much more sophisticated than what I just described.
What is most interesting about this is that it is obviously easy to identify and eliminate MFAs and thin content sites, yet they did not choose to do it before this.
Perhaps Google is satisfied with its recent profit levels and is starting to focus more on long term profits. Or, perhaps the level of complaints has reached an intense enough level to tip the scales in favor of action. It's always been a little odd they didn't do more to wipe out the MFA's before this -- particularly those who are using AdWords Adsense arbitrage as the core of their business .
A question to the unlucky ones that gor this email: where you doing Arbitrage or scrapers?
Scrapers, I hope.
I spend a lot of money with Google. If someone is doing arbitrage and I'm still making a positive ROI, then that's fine with me.
When websites steal my content and Google pays them for it, I become very unhappy. I know Google will respond to DMCA requests, but there's not enough time in the day for that.
I know the sites of some of the webmasters that got the e-mail. Although you can call it 'thin' on content it was definitely unique content. This is not so much about scrapers but about playing the 'arbitrage' game even when having unique content.
