Google has gone after content farms–those pesky websites riddling our search results with low quality content–full-throttle. Earlier this month, the search giant launched a new feature that enabled ...
Demand Media's amended IPO filing-- which reveals it is using dodgy accounting to reduce its editorial expenses -- provides more evidence for my theory that "content farms" are in a bubble and headed ...
Were you hit by the latest Google content farm algorithm? I have seen tons of sites and webmasters claim they were hit, even though they have unique and compelling content. As you know, Google ...
Sick of all the shoddy articles content farms churn out? Well, guess what? So are some of the content farms, and they're even sicker of the perception that everything they publish is badly-written ...
Every time I hear that a writer has been sucked into working for a content farm like Demand Media, eHow or most recently “The AOL Way,” a little piece of my writer’s heart dies. Unfortunately, as ...
Google is tweaking its search results as part of an ongoing effort “to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible,” according to a company blog post. While the ...
No stranger to controversy, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis threw down a gauntlet at his “content farm” competitors, arguing they’re polluting the web and angering Google, to the detriment of searchers and ...
After a weekend filled with more search drama — from a sting operation set up by the New York Times to catch SEO offender JC Penney, to The Content Farm satire blog, to Danny Sullivan’s tongue in ...