It looks like Google is on the lookout and actively banning MFA sites.

What is MFA

MFA stands for “Made for Adsense Sites.” And these are sites created for the sole purpose of making money with Adsense.

• Some of them are mediocre at best using half – assed regurgitated content from the web, republished articles from Ezine and other sites and some of them are really crappy where the ads themselves are placed in such a way that they overlap over the site’s written content, these are really bad.

• They offer no real original quality or information.

• Some have 5 pages of content, and some may have hundreds, but the content is poor, and the MFA quality is very evident.

The Banning of MFA’s

There has been quite a bit of buzz of late that many Blogger blogs that were MFA’s have been getting completely deleted by Google and the Adsense accounts associated with those getting banned as well, or if the sites were self hosted there has been a a complete deindexing of these websites from the SERPS.

Best case scenario is some Adsense accounts were not completely banned, but the sites were from the index.

This recent rash of deindexing of MFA sites and bans all seem to come from a particular network of bloggers that followed an MFA model that was widely taught and blogged about on some popular make money online blogs. Many of these sites even used the exact same “minimalist” blog theme, Blogger blogs and duplicate layouts.

The end result is that only did the weak MFA sites get hit, so did some of the MMO bloggers that were blogging about these kinds of techniques got hit with some sort of penalty as well.

In reality, the “get rich quick” and the “easy” ways to make money online for beginners are very attractive to most newbies, and so of course, many jumped on the MFA bandwagon, which in turn attracted the attention of Google.

I don’t really want to get into the who’s and what’s, as the purpose of this post is not that, but to warn all of you to not waste time building crappy sites for the purpose of making money with Google Adsense.

Make Money Online with Adsense Properly and 6 Valuable Lessons We Can All Learn From This

1. Don’t Make Google Look Stupid

Look, it’s simple, monopoly or not, like it or not, Google is the cornerstone of any online business, they can make or break you, so play by their rules and follow their webmaster guidelines- it’s really that simple!

Google’s rules are really not so bad, all they want is quality for their customers the searcher, and if they are gonna pay you money for clicks then they have a right to  dictate the kind of sites those ads are placed. Most any valuable ad network actually monitors and evaluates websites where their advertisers ads will be placed.

Google, has, does and always will protect their interests and market share as they should, and if you think they don’t monitor the popular MMO and IM blogs to see what kind of teachings and information is being spread then you live under a rock.

2. Use Adsense Wisely

Adsense can be a great income stream when used properly. It should be used to compliment the website as just one revenue stream, it should not be sole purpose of building the website, this is the hallmark of MFA’s.

This is actually true for any affiliate site as well, there has to be value for the traffic over and above the ads and affiliate links or else these type of thin affiliate sites will suffer in the Google SERPS or possibly get completely deindexed all together.

3. Don’t Waste Time

Don’t waste valuable time launching 100 crappy sites sites just to make money with Adsense. Provide value and quality to users and build good sites that will bring long term revenue and a solid business model that doesn’t possess the risk of getting banned and wasting months of hard work.

4. There are NO Real Long Term Get Rich Quick and Easy Schemes Online

This business takes work and a lot of it in order to see long term and permanent results of your labors. Taking shortcuts that can get you banned are never wise choices, they may work for a little while or even some time, but eventually they only lead to problems.

In reality, in the world of Internet Marketing and Making Money Online you get back what you put in, and while building 100 MFA sites with crappy links and no quality may take some work, it doesn’t compare to the real work of building quality sites that endure and bring revenue for years to come.

5. How To Get Your Sites Banned

If you really want to get your websites banned, then build a site that uses the same theme, republish a few articles on it from Ezine or Article Dashboard, add some Adsense ads and place them in a way that they overlap and block your site’s content:  rinse and repeat a lot of times over and I guarantee that you will get your sites banned very quickly .

6. Learn From Others – Don’t Make the Same Mistakes Yourself

I am now going to refer you to a very educational and comprehensive post from Ben, one blogger who was hit very hard with this Google MFA banning – I’ve had my last 4 months of work knocked out in an instant by Google – hundreds of sites completely deindexed last week .

It is a 4000 word synopsis on how NOT to make money online in 2010 and really hits home about the experiences of someone who within a day of reaching the $100 a day Adsense revenue mark had all his Adsense sites deindexed.

I appreciate Ben’s honesty and clarity as to what he learned, and I truly believe that some of the most valuable lessons in making money online and Internet marketing are learned from the negative experiences AND we can learn from others, like Ben and not have to suffer the same fate!