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     Google seems to have taken it upon themselves to play judge, jury, and executioner when it comes to websites.  I’ve discussed before about my experiment with College Debt Assistance, where I had heard enough talk about making money with MFA(made for AdSense)  sites  that I decided to give it a shot.  I recently received an e-mail from Google, telling me that said site was a violation of their terms and conditions.

You would think that this would make this experiment a failure, but you’d be wrong. It was a failure long before this.  The old school way of  making money with MFA sites was by paying cheaply for AdWords, and making more of of people clicking your ads than you had to pay for people clicking yours.  I tried this, and Google instantly raised my cost on words to a point where this is impossible. Google has declared war on people using their ad networks for spam.

But why?

It seems like a stupid question, of course Google wouldn’t  want spam sites taking advantage of the system, right? The reason I ask is because Google is costing themselves a lot of money here.  When you buy AdWords, either it goes up on a Google search, or it goes on to someone’s page as an AdSense ad. When it goes to the search, you’re paying Google; when it goes to AdSense, Google is taking a cut. So, if someone has a profitable MFA site, they are making Google money.

I find it hard to believe that Google is doing solely for the benefit of the internet as a whole, because I’ve been condition to believed that corporations don’t do anything good, ever.  However, this is the only explanation I can think of.  Google is apparently willing to forgo millions, if not billions of dollars to make the internet a better place. Imagine that.