From a previous discussion on Local / foo regarding artificial intelligence with a twist: websites made for Adsense. For those unfamiliar, MFA means "Made For Adsense", and it covers someone building a website entirely for earning money via Adsense. The term usually (generally?) means it's a low quality and low effort website, word salad content, or just empty narratives without deep meaning to attract visitors and attempt to rank the site. It's more about the low quality rather than the intent, because trying to make money via Adsense can be a legit quest with lots of effort and quality, but MFA mean the entire opposite, it's mostly something rushed with no value. The problem? due to gazillion reasons, to legit webmasters and content creators: such low quality website might imply competition or even losses, specially when these MFA just come to copy YOUR content (basically AI does this too, it's not like it generates information out of nowhere).
(Extracted from the other thread) Lucy24: Serious query: How much money can one possibly make from something so shallow?
Really, not much (if any), and if they do, it won't last. I think the whole questions goes in the form of "
How much money can someone lazy be and deceiving make via deceiving others?". The thing is I've seen a lot of people on the web (forums) saying they made a random website with copied (or AI generated) content and wow!
"I'm making tons of money". But my memory allows me to see other things, like... these people don't stay around, and sometimes their posts on other areas of the forums expose they don't exactly have money.
- In my personal opinion, MFA sites usually die rather quickly (not lasting seriously more than a year)
- Many of these attempts end up on selling the website to someone naive enough to buy it
- Lots of these websites end up banned or taken down via DCMA
My personal conclusions are based on other forums. Here? we can't see this because the forum forbids talking specifics or inserting urls, but yes some of us have received offers in the past via PM. Anyway, I've seen these people (mfa builders) on other sites being banned and blamed for ripping off people, or just because they deceive buyers and advertisers. Every month someone new appears talking about some quick lazy-success story making money, trying to project their services or sell their websites. Same thing happens with FB fanpages and Youtube channels with purely stolen content, and with the same result (closed, banned, cancelled, etc).
There are sites that survive many years, but not knowing these people it's impossible to wonder about any income or traffic realistically.
I've had better luck locally (in my country) as I have come across multiple "experts" selling their services building websites to clients... and absolutely none of them have achieved what they offer in terms of traffic or positioning the websites, in fact, none of them have a personal website that ever lasted a bit. I have said goodby to clients falling for them, as these events include lots of askin questions, explaining, or "please do what they offer, fast, in a week, #1 position, they say it's possible, or well, I'll goo with them", I just tell them "bye bye", and then their websites die pretty fast to never recover.
I'm tempted to say there are clues about websites (mfa) that do last, but I have no accurate information about any to sustain such affirmation on something solid. Do you?
What do you think?
