The Past
This article originally discussed blocking sites made for
adsense in your google adsense account. However, after terminating many accounts that were making money from MFA websites only, this topic became obsolete even though some types of made for adsense sites may still exist. Another reason why blocking MFA websites was ineffective in many cases was that there were too many MFA sites and blocking some just allowed others to advertise on your websites. It was a circle without any chance of getting out of it.
The Current Situation
At the moment I ignore if there are MFA websites present in ads shown on my websites as it would waste all of my time. Moreover, there are many clickbank ads that you can't get rid of too. For example, I received a lot of questions and reviews regarding “Discus Fish Secrets” ebook sold at clickbank. People shared their feelings, and trust me, these feelings weren't positive. In fact, there might be no MFA advertisement present on your website at the moment and it could last a week or a month. Or a year too. And still after some time period MFA ads or poorly paid ads can take over advertising space of your websites.
The Background
It is necessary to understand that even MFA or clickbank advertisement is still an advertisement and it is not required to get rid of it at all. If there is demand, the offer will exist. Most likely poorly paid ads can be found on websites where ordinary advertisers cannot generate sufficient return of investment and thus the ads will be cheap. Now MFA ads come to play as they're not offering dollars or euros per click as well.
Don't get sick, change your niche
Instead of trying to get rid of poorly paid ads, change your niche (doesn't mean that you should shut down your current websites with low-paid ads!) and be cool. I personally own several websites and some generate over 1 euro per click in average, and some are happy to receive 10 euro cents per click in average. I won't hang myself because of this and you shouldn't too. Discover new niches or optimise your current web traffic. Understand which pages earn the most and focus on organic traffic to these top earning pages. Naturally you'll attract plenty of unwanted visitors to other pages, but it doesn't mean that you're losing. Unless your earnings got worse or disappeared, you're still doing well.
Fluctuations
The most important aspect of any business, including web business, is that every business model is dynamic and some day you can earn 500 euro while another day you'll end up with 15 euro. Some months are better than others, some years are better than others too. As time goes by your website's traffic must keep increasing. This is all that really matters!
24 January 2010