Made For AdSense

Monday, September 29, 2008

Essentially, Google is what is known as a scraper site. It uses Web scrap-
ing, that is, it makes the use of Web crawlers to index content in the form
of search results. Now this is a fair and legal use of other people’s con-
tent, that is, for the purpose of indexing. However, some scraper sites
make use of the “scraped” content and plagiaries it for their own use.
How do they use this content? Essentially, an illegal scraper site is created
for monetising content from AdSense. Such a site is in the parlance called
an MFA or a Made For AdSense site. Scrapers take content from sites that
have highly-searched keywords and use them to generate high-revenue
clicks from unknowing users who click on these sites thinking them to be
some other, legitimate sites. For example, the site www.everyrule.com is a
shopping site that claims to offer great prices on a host of products. But
the links displayed are almost all AdSense ads. So anything you click is an
AdSense click for the webmaster of Everyrule, who is making money off
these clicks. Visit www.adsblacklist.com for a whole bunch of blacklisted
MFA sites.