Finder.ph, a Made for Adsense (MFA) Site?

Finder.ph (www.finder.ph) is claimed to be a Filipino search engine but its website structure makes it fall into a category of a Made for Adsense (MFA) websites.

MFA websites are websites that was created with a primary purpose and designed to earn money from Adsense. It has no original content. All of its content are just copied from other website. The most common made for adsense websites contains automated search queries of a certain popular keyword.

Examples of made for adsense websites are;

1. http://az21dreamspecials.info/
2. http://www.learn22.info/
3. http://zotti.de/
4. http://polaris-tel.co.uk/

If you will try to compare, finder.ph is the same as the websites listed above.

Definitely Not a Good Idea

There are lots of Adsense publishers who participated in Google Adsense Advertisement program without fully understanding the Adsense Program Policies. It must be given enough attention because a violation of the program policies can cause a termination of Adsense account once discovered by the Google Adsense Team. Take note that you may have only one Adsense Account, using you name and your website, in a lifetime.

As an example, a Filipino blogger happily discovered the benefits of Adsense Program at http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=429 and leave the following comment,

"Demmet. I should have signed up earlier. I don’t know… I guess I never really thought it’s a good money-making scheme till now."

He, then, put an adsense ad block on his blog BUT, unfortunately, he posted the following on his blog,


The last line of his post is obviously a violation of Adsense program policies, which says,

"Web pages may not include incentives of any kind for users to click on ads. This includes encouraging users to click on the ads or to visit the advertisers' sites as well as drawing any undue attention to the ads. For example, your site cannot contain phrases such as "click here," "support us," "visit these links," or other similar language that could apply to any ad, regardless of content. These activities are strictly prohibited in order to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs. In addition, publishers may not bring unnatural attention to sites displaying ads or referral buttons through unsolicited mass emails or unwanted advertisements on third-party websites. Publishers are also not permitted to use deceptive or unnatural means to draw attention to or incite clicks on referral buttons."

I had also discovered another blog that is practicing the same trick but later became offline. Here is the screen shoot of the Google cache;




We are encouraging Filipino Adsense Publishers to faithfully follow the Adsense Program Policies before it’s too late.

Inq7.net Seems Doing Bad Adsense Trick

Atleast once in one week of my rare visits in inq7.net news portal , I encountered to view a returned web page from www.inq7.net homepage that contains merely an adsense ad block. See the screen shot bellow;



I don't know if this was done intentionally by inq7.net webmasters to take advantage of earning more money from Adsense Program or just a bug on my internet browser. But in case that it was made intentionally, this random display of just an Adsense block in their homepage is an annoyance to their users and absolutely a violation of Adsense Policies. To quote the provisions in the Adsense Program Policy, it says,

"No Google ad may be placed on any non-content-based pages."

and

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

I think, inq7.net have to be extra careful regarding this issue to avoid possible termination of Adsense account.