Beat An Adsense Manual Review... Wanna know how?

[christopher jon]

Something most adsense advertisers worry about is losing their account. That one day you'll receive the dredded Your account has been banned, K TNX, BYE message in your adsense account.

Well, I can't say I know all of the answers but I was manually reviewed and I passed the test.

How do I know I was reviewed? I received an adsense message that my site had been reviewed and that the content on my site wasn't acceptable according to the adsense TOS.

However, my account was not banned. I'm not here to cry a river.

So, why do I think my site passed the review? Why do I still have an adsense account?

First, some info about the site,

The site only has 7 articles, all from ezinearticles. No unique content. It's a thin MFA site with no redeeming value. Also, the site is in the sex tips niche with articles such as How to make anal sex more pleasurable. To top it off the site has plenty of pics of hotties in a near state of undress. I know what my demographic likes

Yep, this site is breaking nearly every rule in the adsense book yet my adsense account still survives.

Why?

It doesn't look like an MFA site or a quickly thrown together autoblog or any of the other generic low value sites. It doesn't use an adsense template or layout or follow any of the other well known adsense business models.

It looks like a real website.

It has a very nice custom theme that I designed. All of the articles have thumbnails. The sidebars have additional content etc...

Why is any of that important?

A reviewer doesn't have all day to review a site. My guess is a reviewer spends less than 5 minutes checking a site and has already made up his/her mind as soon as the home page pops up.

Let's face it, MFA sites are easy to spot. I know if a site is an MFA site or a legitimate website as soon as I see it so I'm positive that a google employee can do the same.

Time is on your side when it comes to a review.

You have the opportunity to make a strong first impression. Convince the reviewer that your site isn't a giant lump of garbage clogging up the internet. Don't give a reviewer a reason to dig deeper into your site to see it for what it really is.

If my naughty little 7 page site had been using a typical adsense wordpress theme screaming I'm an MFA site, I'm pretty sure my adsense account would be gone.

Are you going to lose a couple of bucks because your site isn't 100% optimized to trick your traffic into clicking adsense ads, yeah. Would you rather make an extra $.32 today or take steps to make sure you still have your adsense account tomorrow?

Another alternative, create sites that have value but where is the fun in that

Just something to think about.

[mrfusion]

Thanks for your insights on that and taking time to post that for our benefit. I find it quite scary to be at the mercy of 5 minute reviewer who's probably looking at his 100th website of the day, so this post has alleviated some of that fear.

[yukon]

People worry to much.

I could care less If an Adsense reviewer every looks at my sites.

Nothing to hide = nothing to worry about...

[Mike Grant]

Originally Posted by yukon

People worry to much.

I could care less If an Adsense reviewer every looks at my sites.

Nothing to hide = nothing to worry about...

Ding ding.

Stop making POS MFA's and you won't have much to worry about.

[christopher jon]

Stop making POS MFA's and you won't have much to worry about.

Don't be so cranky.

If you're selling backlinks to artificially manipulate google rankings you really shouldn't be casting stones.

Let's not pretend that anybody reading an internet marketing forum, more specifically, the SEO and adsense forum are creating quality sites for the sheer pleasure of it, to provide quality content or to improve the state of the internet. They are reading this forum because they want to make money online.

I'll wager that the majority of sites with adsense ads are MFA sites. They are websites created with the sole intention of making money with adsense. Content and quality are not at the top of the priority list.

Besides, I believe I presented a solution to avoid making POS MFA sites.

It's not like we don't get at least one person a week crying because google closed their adsense account.

Some of my observations might help some poor newbie before it's too late.

[Mike Grant]

Originally Posted by christopher jon

Don't be so cranky.

If you're selling backlinks to artificially manipulate google rankings you really shouldn't be casting stones.

Let's not pretend that anybody reading an internet marketing forum, more specifically, the SEO and adsense forum are creating quality sites for the sheer pleasure of it, to provide quality content or to improve the state of the internet. They are reading this forum because they want to make money online.

I'll wager that the majority of sites with adsense ads are MFA sites. They are websites created with the sole intention of making money with adsense. Content and quality are not at the top of the priority list.

Besides, I believe I presented a solution to avoid making POS MFA sites.

It's not like we don't get at least one person a week crying because google closed their adsense account.

Some of my observations might help some poor newbie before it's too late.

So, you're trying to directly correlate people creating MFAs and me selling backlinks?

LOL. Logic? 0.

[queeni]

I would be thinking again into my theme as it is maily for adsense purpose. thz again

[markowe]

Yeah, I actually deoptimised some of my sites for Adsense a while back - they were getting ridiculous CTR, but I just didn't think it was smart. I broke up the theme, put more images in, de-fluffed the content, more prominent navigation. floated the Adsense block in the text body instead of under the H1. Just generally more going on on the site - it has cost me in clicks, but I think it's a smarter long-term strategy.