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- AndyBeard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10In the interview I did which was 2 hours long I went into many legitimate reasons you might use some of the technology, such as rotation of quality human written paragraphs for various forms of syndication with articles.
- RTCA, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10These "made for adsense" sites usually have very low-quality articles which barely qualify as real information. Huge mistakes in spelling and grammar shows that they're low-quality articles masquerading as high-quality for the search engines.
- EnjoyFailure, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Unnecessary content is a pretty substantial problem on the Internet that needs to be addressed, and it goes beyond these MFA pieces. A common SEO practice to boost search rankings is to create "Resource Centers" on websites. These site sections are marketing tools of multiple articles populated with keywords design to add "relevant content" to the site. 9 times out of 10, these Resource Centers are not needed and merely add more clutter to the Google index. These kind of articles as well as MFA articles lead to the slow junking/shift of search results for marketing purposes rather than informative purposes.
- liamvictor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Perhaps you could spin those ideas off into a separate article for your blog?
- oooo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, not Google. It does not pay out of its own pocket, but merely passes on a slice of the advertising revenue it collects from advertisers. So:
a) Google does not have a massive incentive to go crack down on these, except to a minor degree to protect its long-term business image.
b) The advertisers themselves do not have the tools to investigate or stop this, other than quitting the advertising program. - greyman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The problem is, that the content IS useful for the advertisers, since when the article quality is low, the user is more inclined to click elsewhere, and when the only links one see are Adsense links, they will click. So the click-through ratio from those articles may be even higher that from "quality" articles. So Google do not have any real incentive to weed out those sites.
- TheMadHat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2The creator doesn't care and the search engines don't know so stopping it will be up to the company that pays him...namely Google.
- hugepedlar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Probably because the site owner didn't write them. Someone else did, then bundled them into a package and sold them to people looking for 'adsense content'. The actual author has no incentive to write anything of quality because he doesn't make money from adsense - he makes money from people who buy his articles hoping to make adense cash. Simply paste a phrase from one of these 'articles' into google and you'll find dozens of identical copies from other customers.
- EmperorAnton, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Perhaps one day, some organization will make Google accountable for its fraudulent billing practices. Perhaps then they would have a bit of incentive to insure that advertisers dollars are better spent.
- willcritchlow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Found in a few places now. Had to digg it ;)
Hope you caught your flight, Andy! - ForbesBingley, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1But is the problem of MFA non-content due to be self-regulating at some point? After all, if the advertisers begin to see trends in click-thrus from low-quality websites, won't they either put pressure of Google, Yahoo! et al to screen out these guys, or do their own screening?
- Rubab, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This is very important issue as growing number of websites with Unnecessary content is the problem that has to be addressed, many sites made for the adsense and not the resource centers and carry sub standard articles, irrelevant and unpopular materials.
- JuCee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Yeah, that looked shady, but after clicking the link, it's important stuff. Help get the word out so the little girl can be found.
- kinggimped, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I'd rather we worked harder on eradicating email spam than worrying about link farms that I don't have to go anywhere near...
- Agilus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Wow, this is a good article.
It's really too bad this technique works. It justifies the "blog spam" term that people throw around on here, and makes life more difficult for blog authors that create content that is actually worth reading. - dansko, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0MFA sites are ever increasing, and Google is cracking down on them.
http://blogs.ebay.com/gnabeel - catererdude, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0This technique can also be used for SEO. Companies run sites where they write articles and link to your site so that the search engines think relevant sites are linking to you and give you link juice. The sites they use will already have some page rank (quality) too. However can look like link farms.
- rastakid, on 10/10/2007, -9/+1Off-topic, digg this: http://digg.com/world_news/Who_is_the_little_girl_ ...
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