Just noticed all the google ad blocks are filled with 'earn 3500% after 1 day' ads.
I know you just want to earn money but have some heart... newbies will see and get suckered in. especially with these ads all over MMG..
Kinda enhances the 'scammer paradise' rep..

Just a thought

Are they just the Google text ads?

Well, it could potentially be viewed as speculation.
To my knowledge MMG can't necessarily tell Adsense "Don't allow this site _____"

yup basically full of craapy 3500% after 1 day etc sites.... i haven't seen a '10k free smileys + earn 1000% after 1 second' ad yet...

And because there are so many adsense blocks about now.. its just going to mean mmg members and guests will spend more on the obvious scams (which mods normally move to the scam section the minute they're posted). So they can pay higher CPC next round until all ad blocks are filled up.

I get these ads on my blog too and I literally feel ashamed to have links to obvious scams.

when advertisers start to realise they can get more value for money, and be advertised over more sites they will just by a prepaid virtual credit card and start advertising with adsense.

Shouldn't GOOGLE be the one to get the blame here?

That is where I feel the blame should be pointed. They're obviously taking the money from the scam sites to have it listed on the ads.

Maybe report the site to Google or something. It may eliminate that site, but it won't stop the next couple thousand sites from popping up also.

No not really, they are just an advertising firm and as long as the sites are in their TOS they don't have to do anything about it.
There are loads of different scam sites being advertised on google.. especially some of those crappy e-books which don't have a chance of working.

I know MMG can't really control the ad's they publish, but perhaps they can look towards different advertising solutions for the member's sake

Many different advertising methods have been considered on MMG, but what's important about something like adsense is that it provides backfill and only takes up any slots that are empty in rotation. The adsense ads are generated contextually based on the surrounding text on the page, so MMG really has no control over the ads that show there. If you do notice an obvious scam there, the best option would be to report it to google and google may remove the site from the adwords system. I know that most MMG members are smart enough not to invest in anything that pays 3500% in 1 day

you claim that over a hundred members join MMG everyday. guaranteed that nearly all of them are here to learn about ecommerce and how to earn money online. A lot are here to find ways to get rich quick.

example of ad:



I would like to point out that the amount of adsense blocks in the big banner section has decreased!
however I don't want those bloody ads all down the left of my page

Me too why does it have to feel like talk gold all of a sudden!!!

Danny...

Its doing my nut I might have to kill someone soon

Look i've loved MMG for more than a year now, and the reason I love this place is because it has everything in moderation, but now!!!

Ads in the top right corner, huge ads under the header, ads at the end of every post, ads just before the footer.

And now tons of ads on the left hand side!! We might as well call MMG the new talk gold. wow.

Danny...

Smart enough you say? LOL, had you ever read about a guy who sold the effiel tower and yet someone purchased it! It applies to MMG too... the majority of the population of this forum have no common sense.

For those who really can't stand the ads and are using Firefox. You might want to check this out...
http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

Thank you, worked like charm.

Whoa I wouldn't go that far. At least MMG's ads blend in with the site and are not blocks of 8 banners squished right next to each other like at talk gold. Besides I think I'm pretty much used to the new layout now.

I recommend the use of Firefox too

kinda got used to it..

however

the site is still spammed with 2400000% after 1 day.
Is that the image you really want to give out to new members?

The arena has been in the toilet since 12dp/sp, now with egold, that toilet was flushed, people are bailing out... the big players... the circulation of money is drying up more and more. Mmg needs someway to make up for that dwindling advertising quota.

Those ads do trash up the forum and detract from the caliber that the forum is trying to promote.

In the last few months I have noticed a sudden increase in ads on MMG, everywhere I look now it seems like there is some sort of advertising going on? I'm sure I'm not the only one getting a little bit annoyed and these blatent scams are definately decreasing the the sites image in a negative way.

You've changed ASFx!! You didn't approve then why do you approve now?!! 750% after 20 minutes hotinvest..


theres selling advertising space

and then theres just plain ethics...

surely you realise that if people were smart enough not to invest in such ridiculous programs you wouldn't sell any advertising space.

Boy, this is a really old thread.

need to stop the direct scamming
Also that ads may cause site long loading...)

This is a paid ad to MMG, i really am disappointed the MMG would accept an ad like this, i could not begin to think what the context would be to accept such an ad to a program that will no doubt rip off its members.