MFA's are back.

what to do now?

[tabish]

I thought google has done something solid to block those MFAS, but i am amazed to see that i need to block daily almost 5-10 urls...

What is going on? the filter list is limited to 200 i know that.

What to do now.. should i keep sending those urls to google on daily basis?

Regards

[edited by: jatar_k at 2:46 pm (utc) on Nov. 15, 2007]

[Hobbs]

>What to do now

Same here tabish,
It just eats at what otherwise could be premium family or content development time. And more prolific when Google forgets what your pages are about and starts serving unrelated ads.

Currently here's how I keep flees off my pages:
- No more than one ad unit per page
- Turning off CPM targeting (email support for it)
- Routinely purge the filter list and start over
- Report them (I used to do that)

Additional things that help:
- Organize your MFA list by priority, keep pinned the ones you find most repeated in your filter list.
- Ping routinely your whole MFA list and strike out the ones that don't resolve
(There are many freeware that can do that, I use one called 'Fast Resolver')

2 types piss me off most:
Parked domains advertising on my pages
And the one page deeper MFA trying to beat the quality score.

[zett]

Makes for a great B-movie series, though:

- "THE UGLY MFA'S"
- "THE RETURN OF THE MFA'S"
- "THE MFA'S AND THE PARKED DOMAINS"
- "THE EXTINCTION OF THE MFA'S"

or maybe also documentaries:

- "MFA'S NOW AND THEN"
- "24 HOURS IN THE LIFE OF A MFA"

Well, looking at my current revenues (-38% YoY), EPC (-36% YoY) and eCPM (-21% YoY), I feel that I really need some dry humor. Otherwise this Adsense nonsense would be unbearable.

In fact, I just check my stats every day out of curiosity. I have given up hoping for a change. The next change will happen though, once an alternative will be available to me.

[callivert]

so here's a question.
What's to stop me setting up a parked page just like one of the MFA parked pages, and swapping all my adsense code for direct links to that page. Therefore, I get all the revenue of the MFA operator, plus take Google out of the equation.
ie make a clone of the MFA and create direct links to it.
Why wouldn't it work?

[ArtistMike]

go for it, tell us how it works out for you.

Mike

[pageoneresults]

What to do now.

Stop running AdSense. :)

[farmboy]

I thought google has done something solid to block those MFAS...

Now that's what I call optimism!

FarmBoy

[edited by: jatar_k at 2:46 pm (utc) on Nov. 15, 2007]
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[Scurramunga]

2 types piss me off most:
Parked domains advertising on my pages
And the one page deeper MFA trying to beat the quality score.

And now.............the .org MFA

[tabish]

Seems like so many people are suffering.. i am not alone. Everybody has stopped talking about this MFA issue because we have accepted it as our fate.

the more irritating MFAs on my sites are .info one .. is .info still being sold in $1 per domain?

Thank you for all those responces.

Regards

[WiseWebDude]

2 types piss me off most:
Parked domains advertising on my pages
And the one page deeper MFA trying to beat the quality score.

I agree, I am so sick and tired of parked pages showing our ads as they do NOT work and bounce rate is pretty much 100%. I want an option to opt-out of ALL parked pages as they WASTE our ad dollars! Plus, I know damned well not that many people see those pages and the owners are, most likely, the only ones clicking on them...I see it as a scam. Most of my sites I have stopped content ads & search ads on content sites because of this problem.

[farmboy]

...I am so sick and tired of parked pages showing our ads as they do NOT work ...

I don't like to land on a parked domain page any better than anyone else.

But it's obvious they do work if work means earning money for the owners and for Google.

If you doubt that, go and read that Business 2.0 article from about a year ago concerning the convention of domain parkers held in Florida.

FarmBoy

[Atomic]

I want an option to opt-out of ALL parked pages as they WASTE our ad dollars! Plus, I know damned well not that many people see those pages and the owners are, most likely, the only ones clicking on them...I see it as a scam.

I'm with you and also desire an opt-out option.

Most of my sites I have stopped content ads & search ads on content sites because of this problem.

And that's how you do it!

[WiseWebDude]

But it's obvious they do work if work means earning money for the owners and for Google.

Oh, I believe you and I'm quite sure they do...but the advertisers don't get conversions...those are the highest bounce rates we get so we are simply getting ripped off. ROI from parked pages is crap and Google should let us STOP them from showing our ads...plus I don't like showing up on those parked sites as I do not think it makes us look good. Just MHO.

:)

[edited by: WiseWebDude at 5:26 pm (utc) on Nov. 16, 2007]

[martinibuster]

>>>but the advertisers don't get conversions...

Actually, the advertisers get the highest conversions from parked pages. But that's a topic for another thread.

The topic is:

MFA's are back. what to do now?

Hobbs, those are the best anti-MFA tips I've seen posted anywhere.

[edited by: martinibuster at 5:58 pm (utc) on Nov. 16, 2007]

[WiseWebDude]

Actually, the advertisers get the highest conversions from parked pages.

Hm, that is not what we have noticed. I don't know, maybe some do I guess. We turned them OFF for that crap and decreased our spend and conversions remained the same...so I would just like the option is all. If some like them and it works for them...let them use them...if others don't like them, let them opt-out. That seems only fair to me. Plus, every time I used to see our ads on a parked page (or MFA page) I felt like a spammer...I just feel bad about them. I mean I don't care if Google wants to keep it up, just please let us CHOOSE is what I'm getting at. Please, LOL.

[edited by: WiseWebDude at 5:53 pm (utc) on Nov. 16, 2007]

[DreamMaker]

I don't block MFA long time ago since I know that google have automatic block them for me.

The first ads on your page will pay highest and after that the rest ads will pay a bit. That mean no point to block them. just put the first ads in the highest CTR position. That's all