D-Day for Made for AdSense Sites
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Back on June 6, 1944 in the offline world, the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II took place. This day, the one when the Battle of Normandy began, was also known as D-Day.
Approximately 63 years to the day after D-Day, Google is launching their own offensive to eradicate the MFAs (aka Made for AdSense sites) from the online world.
According to a post on JenSense on May 18, Google AdSense disabling arbitrage publisher accounts as of June 1st…
Numerous AdSense publishers have been receiving emails from Google the past couple of days stating that their use of their AdSense account is an unsuitable business model and that accounts would be disabled as of June 1st, giving publishers about two weeks notice to prepare for the loss of the AdSense accounts… and since it seems that arbitrage publishers are the ones receiving this account disabled email, to give those publisher enough time to shut down accounts or use an alternative source for their outgoing traffic.
Right now, I have only heard from those doing either “Made for AdSense” style of sites or those doing arbitrage, and it does include publishers making significant money per month ($10,000 USD and higher). So they are not giving a pass to those who are earning above a certain threshold. And it seems that no one who is outside of the arbitrage/MFA area of AdSense earnings has been affected thus far.
This ought to bring smiles to the faces of affiliates who are producing original content, only to see it scraped and used without permission by the MFAs.
More details at http://www.jensense.com/archives/2007/05/google_adsense_16.html.
Update
Here’s a video of ShoeMoney on the subject…
Also, an article I wrote a couple years back on affiliates and arbitrage, as well as a short overview of affiliate arbitrage by Jon from Wicked Fire:
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