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“MFA” Made for Adsense does NOT Equal “Black Hat”

After publishing “The $5 Mini-Site Formula” I’ve been asked MANY times whether or not I worry about Google suspending my adsense account for putting up “MFA” sites.

My answer is always similar to this:

“No, “MFA” sites are not all bad. If I were publishing crappy content, which didn’t help anyone, then I would be worried. But I don’t!”

What is an MFA site?

An MFA site is one that was made to generate income from Adsense. With that in mind, many people start shaking when someone quotes this, within the Google Adsense Program Policies:

No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant.

The reason they added this was because spammers were putting up trashy sites, which scraped content and provided absolutely no value to the viewer. They put up these sites full of trash just to make a few cents with adsense.

Good on Google! This guideline was necessary!

Google WANTS Good Content and I provide it!

If I were to ever receive an email or a phone call from a Google rep asking me to take down my niche mini-sites I would be VERY surprised! Why? Because they fill gaps and answer questions… they contain quality content! They just happen to be monetized with Google Adsense.

If you find a handful of long-tail phrases that have little to no competition, but receive some daily search volume, wouldn’t Google WANT you to fill that gap with good info? Of course they would! What they don’t want is for that gap to be filled with scraped crap that isn’t going to convert an ad that their advertisers are paying for!

So, some MFA sites are indeed black hat, but not all!

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I’ve Changed The DoFollow Comment Policy

No, I’m not going back to nofollow, but I am tightening the ropes a bit. After my recent post explaining why you shouldn’t nofollow your comments, I actually started to look into it a bit more.

It may be a little hypocritical, but I’ve decided to raise the number of approved comments before dofollow is activated to 9 (previously 3.)

Why I Did It - Although I didn’t previously think the loads of dofollowed links in the comment field of posts were negatively affecting the authority of the blog, I’m starting to think they may actually be. Not so much the [...] Continue Reading…

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NON-Internet Marketing Musings by Josh Spaulding

For a long time now I’ve been wanting to start a personal blog. There are so many things I want to write about that just wouldn’t fit in with this blog, but I’ve been so busy I just never got to it.

Well, I finally did it. A few days back I registered http://www.LifeWithJosh.com/ and I’ve written on a couple topics I’ve been wanting to talk about for a while.

Many of the posts will be on health and fitness related topics, but I plan to write on just about everything. If I think I can help people with something… find [...] Continue Reading…

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Tim Gorman Reveals his 5 figure/month Article Marketing Strategies

You probably already know that I’m a huge article marketing supporter. I use my own article marketing strategies to build my list, drive traffic to my niche mini-sites etc. I’ve even written an article marketing ebook.

With that being said, you can probably imagine there are VERY few people I would even consider taking advice from on the subject of article marketing… actually there’s 1 person, Tim Gorman!

Tim is a friend of mine, who I consider a mentor in may ways. He’s the one who got my feet wet with article marketing and niche marketing in the first place and [...] Continue Reading…

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Is Your Link Building Strategy a Time Waster?

Earlier this year I revealed that the only traffic generation secret was that there is no traffic generation secret. Today I’d like to hit on link building, because many people think the same way about building links as they do with traffic generation.

The first and possibly most important thing I’ll say about link building is that you shouldn’t be spending your valuable time seeking out top-secret pages that give followed links!

Sure, you could probably find some, but in most cases the time investment isn’t nearly worth it. Most of the time these “top secret” high PR pages aren’t nearly [...] Continue Reading…

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How to Run a NON-Scummy, Profitable Email Marketing Campaign

It doesn’t matter what you’re doing online to make money, if you don’t run an email marketing campaign you’re leaving money on the table!

That shouldn’t come as a big surprise to you if you’ve been at this online thing for any time at all. This post wasn’t written to try to convince you to start one, I’m assuming you’ve already been told “the money is in the list” hundreds of times and it’s a very true statement.

However, for most, it’s not about the size of the list, it’s about how you use it

In other words, a list of [...] Continue Reading…

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“Article Marketing Domination 2008″ Launches

Over the past few weeks I’ve been busy working on a completely new version of my popular “Article Marketing Domination” ebook, which to date has brought in a net profit of over $30,000.00

The previous versions have sold so well because quite simply, it works!

However, search algorithms, and technology in general for that matter, change quite frequently…I needed to clarify some points…I needed to remove some unneeded info and I needed to add some important info.

To make a long story short the already effective technique outlined in the ebook wasn’t nearly as effective as the current article marketing strategy [...] Continue Reading…

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10 “Must Have” Internet Marketing Tools

Just about every day I receive an email, ticket, comment etc. asking what tool I use for “xyz.”

I’ve been wanting to offer a list for a while and this is as good a time as any. The following list of Internet Marketing tools is composed of the tools I use on a somewhat regular basis. There are others I use as well, but less frequently.

I tried to stay away from the obvious, Autoresponders, Analytics etc.

Here they are in no particular order:

1. The SEO Book Keyword Tool - I use this on a daily basis, primarily for the keyword research [...] Continue Reading…

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Traffic Generation and Visitor Retention Revisited

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I wrote a similar post not long ago, but my primary point is so important and so rarely understood that I feel like I need to do it again, with a slightly different approach. This, and the previous post, are quite possibly the most important posts I’ve ever written. If I write multiple posts driving in the same point you know it’s important!

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There are a handful of niche topics in the Internet Marketing field, which are always talked about more than anything else:

1. List Building
2. SEO
3. Link Building
4. Article Marketing

In many cases these are all used together in one [...] Continue Reading…

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“The Make Money Online Niche Exposed” is Released (Free Report)

All of you MMO bloggers will be glad to know I’ve just released a new, free report, called “The Make Money Online Niche Exposed.”

In this report I put everything I’ve learned about the MMO niche from holding a top-10 ranking on Google for “make money online” (without quotes) for over 10 months, out there.

I confess how I got there, who the REAL target audience is, the amount of traffic received and I even show some interesting screenshots!

You can grab your copy now at http://www.mmonicheexposed.com/

Enjoy!

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