If I haven’t told you before, you’re really inspiring me. I’ve been thinking I better try a white hat MFA site. Still thinking about what topic / keyword to use / target and I don’t have much time to actually do it, but I really want to try this now.

Keep up the great posts!

I ended up buying two ads before I went to bed last night, and since I had to get up very early, I ended up writing a more extensive explanation in a blog post. You, or other, might fight it enlightening as far as it goes:

http://braindump.chuckbrown.com/putting-food-on-the-table/cool-monetization-concept-project-wonderful/

@ Chuck, Thanks! For the more “competitive” keywords (those that people think are competitive anyway) they are indeed subjects I’m knowledgeable in. However there are many long-tail keywords I have #1, #2, #3 etc. spots for many of my niche sites. Most of those are outsources articles, which still provide value.

Adsense is certainly lower than it was in the past, but with all my sites together it’s not too bad. I think there are two different types of “MFA” sites – white hat and black hat. White hate being an MFA site with unique, quality content and a black hat being a scraper or plagiarized site.

I run many “MFA” sites that contain good solid content. They just happen to have been create for adsense money. I’d imagine those advertisers are happy to have their adverts on my sites If not, I don’t know why not. That’s targeted traffic being sent to their advert.

I know what you mean about those damn .01 and .02 clicks, kinda makes me mad. One visitors is worth much more than 2 lousy cents. It’s crazy to see how a mortgage site will get 5 clicks, which equal $5-$7 while my Germany sites will make about $1 for the same amount of clicks.

Thanks for the link, I’ll take a look.

The sad thing is that AdSense used to pay a lot better than it does now…you probably would have made a good bit more back then (I know I did). Spammers, as usual, have tamped down the opportunity to make decent money and driven many of the advertisers away…cuz who wants to pay for an ad on an MFA website?

And advertisers have become a lot more sophisticated, too. Google needs to close some loopholes that allow advertisers to buy ads for a penny or two. Nobody wins with those things.

I don’t want to say that AdSense isn’t worth doing. Even though I make a decent living in voiceovers, Google is still my largest employer. However, AdSense is neither what it once was, not what it should be. That leaves me constantly on the lookout for new income opportunities.

In fact, I just stumbled across an interesting one today. I don’t think it means big money…and I’m not sure that it would be worth doing for most blogs, but for sites that have a fair amount of traffic and can afford a little above-the-fold space…you might find it worth a look. I plan to try it out on a few of my sites in the near future. It allows advertisers to bid on your available space. It looks kinda like AdBrite…but implemented a lot better, from what I’ve seen so far:

http://www.projectwonderful.com/