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Death to AdSense freeloaders

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Monday May 28 2007

I just stumbled across adsblacklist.com which seems to be a very interesting service. You can use this service to generate lists of sites that are so called 'MFA sites' which means 'Made For Adsense'. These sites pollute your adsense blocks with ads that will barely make you any money. People that click on them land on sites with no valuable content or whatsoever. Instead they're filled with more ads that make the owner of those pages a lot more money than you got when people clicked on your ads. I guess everyone will agree with me that this sucks. I tried it out for several sites as of today. Let's see if it makes a difference!

Yes, I've re-enabled AdSense on this site. I haven't been happy with them for banning me for no reason at all but besides Text-Link-Ads there just doesn't seem to be any alternative. I guess it would be nice if YPN would decide to accept non-US blogs... I'll keep you posted about whether adsblacklist makes a difference or not!

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At 28 May '07 - 23:50 weefselkweekje wrote:
Hmm… I’m not liking that it’s a paid service. This sort of thing should imho be a community effort.
At 07 August '07 - 12:11 Miles Pearson wrote:
In an ideal world I would agree with the community service idea. Sadly there are too few people willing to undertake the work of keeping such a service up to speed and for free.

Time is money as the saying goes.

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