I too have unique content (all sites are blogs) that are updated on an almost daily basis.

I’ve appealed but I doubt I’ll get anywhere with that.

Now, there are many sites that do arbitrage that are unaffected. Shoemoney did a video post that suggested it is not MFA that will get you banned but poor converting sites.

Could it be that poorly converting sites do not fit Google’s business model?

Many or most MFA or arbitrage sites do not convert. Many of the MFA sites use Google ads that are designed to get as many clicks as possible—regardless of the mood or intention of the buyer. They use text like, top information source, etc. in order to encourage clicks.

In addition, a few friends on the message boards run MySpace sites that are not arbitrage and get most of their traffic organically. They received the same e-mail of not fitting the business model and will have their Adsense account terminated June 1.

I think in this case a correlation is not causation.

I never looked at that positive side of it. I looked at it more from a view on web pages. I’m also a publisher of many blogs and have found it quite annoying how low some of my click costs have gone down.

Never attributed to MFA sites. It will be interesting to see how it shakes out to say the least. You have to imagine that not only does google want to remain “good” but they also want to increase profits. They’re, after all, a publicly traded company. If they think this will increase profits, I’m definitely on board.

Good points you two.

Aloha,
Erik

Will Yahoo to do the same and clean up its network now?

I spent a long time building up the competitive ad filter on my AdSense account to block out the MFA sites that were bidding nickels for my traffic and then getting dollars from that same traffic on their site.

I’ve noticed those sites regarded as arbitrage sites and wondered how Google kept them going. Like the ones that call themselves top 10 sites, having google ads on top of 5 or 6 “unique” answers, then they promote those sites using adwords. I thought it was an interesting business model but definitely not one that Google would agree with. Seems like they’re coming around to the same conclusions.