I find it irritating that people use the term "mfa" - it is VERY arrogant of google, to start with, because it means "made for {google} adsense"
now. i have been using the content below on one page, to get loads of adsense revenue
i wrote the article because of my experiences and for the sake of educating lots of young people in not getting shafted
i also knew that 60% of those who read it would still gladly just go to a loan provider and try for more loans anyway
which was true - so i made lots of bucks
google banned me, and i think to claim what is below is "made for google {adsense}" is a downright lie, particularly since i have now got some advertisers of loans to monetize it directly.
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Have mortgage problems left you with extra debt?
If your debt is between a few thousand pounds/dollars and maybe 10,000 to 15,000, then you can solve your problems cleanly and acceptably by starting with a list of all the people you owe money. Ideally you should have a pretty good estimate for each amount of money owed, but maybe you won't feel comfortable ringing them and asking, when they have trained sales rottweilers trying to use psychological bullying to make you agree to payment plans you cannot afford 1. List your debts
2. Make a list of your income and outgoings, no matter how small. Even if you have a negative figure at the end. Have your income estimate, ensure that it reflects the longst period possible for you to be precise about.
3. Show how much money you have left over and allocate it proportionally to the debts on your list or, if there is nothing left over or a very small amount, make a token 1 pound/dollar payment to each company on the list.
4. Be sure to send a photocopy of the financial statement, along with a 3 line payment plan simply stating that for each of the next 3 months you will pay the payment you have indicated.
Refinancing loans and mortgages isn't always the answer
By paying a token or small payment to each debt, you will start to undo the damage of bad credit and start to prevent further attacks on your credit by hostile companies. You will even start to be able to pinpoint which debts you will be able to wipe out first and before long you'll be setting your sights on wiping out your whole debt. But your freedom and peace of mind begins the moment you get your debts listed and get yourself organised. Pay by cheque in the post once a month - and ignore all their attempts to make you pay any other way - standing for 40 minutes in a bank queue, or indeed any other inconvenience, is unnecessary. Send a cheque in the post and ignore the foaming at the mouth that the companies and institutions throw your way. They have no right to do this and it is all bravado.
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now tell me - when google claim that my site is a "risk" to their advertisers, are they actually making a provable case? If so why did they give no evidence, why did they make no specific claims - i.e. telll me WHAT on my site is a risk, or why it is a risk (show evidence, in short, which is a basic requirement in rational business activities)? because it's not - it's just puffery/faff {aka fluffery}. the affiliate networks pay me £10 a click for the ads on that page, whereas google paid me £1 a click to begin with, then smart-priced me down to about 20p, and even then i carried on making a profit because it is those who don't rely on google-style stabilisers who can ride their bike on the information superhighway at top speed.
does anyone believe the article quoted above (look no urls, chris - it's no link drop) is "mfa"? i don't. so why did google wipe me out?
i doubt their so-called analysis of the revenue generated was sufficient.
i'll let you know in a month how much money the page has made through affiliate networks instead.
i write other content too - the stock market content i wrote actually taught me so much about trading (through the research i did when writing it) that i have been playing dummy-runs with markets and more often than not managing to invest correctly and get a profit
my content is not made for google - google are very arrogant if they think that. when google is gone the same content will still produce revenue
the New York Times is not "made for proctor and gamble" or "made for microsoft" or whoever advertises on their pages. it's made for audiences and the adverts are also made for audiences and they work together.
google's arrogance in removing me has merely turned yet another very experienced internet player against them, and i'm all the more glad because it seems that it was a mistake to let google's instant-revenue-log deceive me into believing it was less risky than the affiliate sector which takes days and weeks to show the same revenue to you for the same clicks, even though in retrospect they sell just as consistently.
anyway. mfa my rear end!
what are people's views of my article? i showed it to at least 3000 people, and earned from it, before google wiped me out and kept my profits for themselves. i still feel glad that 3000 people have a better understanding of how to increase their peace of mind, reduce the extent of their debt problem and not even have to borrow more money or do anything difficult.
in the first 2 weeks, that article generated a profit of over 100 dollars from google. they smartpriced it and for the next 30 days its profit added up to about 50 to 60 dollars. after that they revealed to me that they had been investigating and thwarting it and cut it off with no actual warning. they just appeared out of nowhere and cut me off, without having first made it clear to me that i had done anything wrong or what indeed that really was - their vagueries clearly hide what is, underneath, a short-sighted, blind and authoritarian approach.
i'm not lying when i say that in 2003 and 2004 i said that google had no business sense, that they made a lot of money but didn't make it in a strong way, and were bad value for money for a publisher. why i got sucked into adsense in 2008 i dunno... media image, i suppose - google has a big reputation now. but who are they kidding? they haven't made a single technical improvement to their search for years, and it is far from ideal.
