Not so long ago, if anyone asked you to name the one thing which made web better, chances are you would have named Google. And so would have I. Not so long ago.Are you a webmaster? Quick, one term which just spoils your day. Was it MFA? MFA- Made for adsense sites. Automated sites which just copy content and add no value.
Google's lax enforcing of Adsense TOS means that spammers can show adsense on crappy site and get away with it. It means that you would be forced to see pages with a sentences and 3 ad units. It means search engine spammers can get away with anything and visitors lose time, publishers loose money and valid adsense ads get a bad rep.
But that is not even the bad part.
Google is actively, ok almost actively promoting these Black hat techniques.
What does Joe BlackHatter needs to create a MFA site? Softwares. Softwares to spew out a bazzilion automated sites. Now Google has declared a Jehad against automated/scrapped content. So you would think that they would not touch it with a 10 foot barge pole. Ok lets just ask google http://www.google.com/search?q=AUTOMATIC+CONTENT+GENERATOR.
The result
Yes sir. About a million sponsored listings for software to create spam. How much broke is google for money that they have to promote such Search Engine Fodder.As a leading Search Engine one would expect Google to take a pro-actice role in weeding them out.
Just for fun, there are some more search results where google lists spammy softwares. (Only sponsored results are shown.)
http://www.google.com/search?q=Adsense
http://www.google.com/search?q=CLOAKING
So next time you see Matt Cutts crying about Bhack Hat SEOs, being scum of the earth, ask him just drop him a line.
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