It seems MFA sites have been hit with low quality scores and are being warned/banned by the truckload!! This is great news for ‘real’ adwords users because now the bids won’t be artificially pumped up with the estimated 10-15 million MFA sites rotting the web.
Here are some excerpts from a thread over at Webmaster World:
“they are still at it.. got a few campaigns hit by 1/10 QS.. Ads that have been running for last 2 years with no change in ‘domain’ or anything.. They just decided overnight that they are low quality..”
“Our affiliate/partner sites which were running for over 3 years without any change are now 1/10 …The problem is bigger because some of our other websites which are not connected to affiliate/partner business in any way, and have order form on our own domains and we sell it from our stock, they are also 1/10 … This websites have PR5”
“My site went to QS 1/10 after 2 years of not having any issues, I have been using adwords since 05”
“This thread is such a nightmare for adWords users. Anyone who hasn’t got the dreaded mail must be thinking.. I am next. I keep logging in and checking my adwords a/c every few minutes. Getting paranoid. Horrible feeling..”
“Another account banned here. I have gotten warnings in the past, but feel they were unjustified. I talked to my reps about these warnings and they gave me recommendations, but never told me that if they were not resolved you will be banned. This account has been online for 5+ years and we spend about 100k per year in advertising.”
The whole thing sounds brutal and you can follow the thread here http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adwords/3995572.htm