Checking the filter list

just checked 10 URLs from my filter list

[jetteroheller]

10 URLs from my filter list

1 domain does not exist any more
1 under construction - coming soon back
8 with some other ads
0 with AdSense

1 site seems to have a big traffic loose since April. About 95% of traffic lost according to Alexa.

[zett]

This purging was apparently about the obvious MFAs, those that had written "ban me" all over their code. On example is that company that had just a logo, two large rectangles and one ad link. Poof. Gone.

From looking at the domains that still exist in my filter. These are happily run Adsense, sites with heavily blended ads and some content (but virtually no useful content) on template driven sites with zillions of domains, scam artists and e-mail harvesters, sites without content but also without Adsense. All these have not been affected. I just hope the 2nd/3rd/4th round will catch them.

No, I am far from being able to clean my filter. As a good Google citizen, I would love to obey and follow the optimization tips provided by the Adsense team over the past three months. Under the current situation, I simply can't.

[Scurramunga]

I have found a few MFA's hat no longer exist since June 1st. However there are a whole lot of new MFA's that have come to my attention, so my filter list remains at 200 and the juggling continues.

[celgins]

I've never had a problem with MFA's or ARB sites -- they just never show up in my ads.

As a result, my filter list never contained a lot of MFA's or ARB's, but it remains close to 200.

[netmeg]

When investigating some traffic/clicks for one of my clients on the AdWords side yesterday, I came across this entire network of sites that are flipping AdSense ads through two or three redirects (and not marking them as Google ads, among other violations) and reported the whole shmear to both AdSense and AdWords. There were pages and pages of them (found by searching specifically for some of my clients' domain names and adwords landing urls), hundreds if not thousands of domains. I was feeling pretty good about the recent changes till I came across this.

[Scurramunga]

As a result, my filter list never contained a lot of MFA's or ARB's, but it remains close to 200.

Not all of the sites that I filter are MFA or arbs. Some are those large shopping sites that never deliver what they promise, some are sites with poor landing pages or pages that do not load properly, scam sites such as email harvesters and sites designed to mislead the visitor using good ad copy in general.

[edited by: Scurramunga at 1:48 pm (utc) on June 8, 2007]

[farmboy]

I've never had a problem with MFA's or ARB sites -- they just never show up in my ads.

Want some?

Just post the topic of your site so the MFA's lurking here will know which topic they missed and you'll have some in a few hours.

FarmBoy