Don't link or like farms. This morning I caught up with Duane Forrester from Bing as he prepared to kick off the Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference (RIMC), a two-day boot camp in Iceland featuring content focusing on search and social.
Mike Essex of Koozai.com broke a story on how he found that e-books were becoming the new content farms. That's where creating rich content based on the results can attract editorial links (see "18 Ways to Create Unique Content From Survey Results").
On top of that, there are content farms and AdSense manipulators causing random spend spikes. In the GDN, however, because the matching is broad, the California ad will get matched to general "power of attorney" or even "california attorney" pages...
Search Engines Are Winning the War on Content Farms [STUDY] of Organic Search Clicks Go to First Link [Study] Google is the primary way teenagers conduct research in today’s digital world, according to new Pew research.
I won’t even get into the content farms.this time. The Quality Content mantra was just a twinkle in Matt Cutts’ eye in those days. Crowdsourcing came first and happened to coincide with an almost insatiable need on the part of businesses coming...
Google has always claimed to be able to find networks of bad links (link farms, etc) algorithmically, although many in the SEO community suspect that detecting bad neighborhoods is more of a manual task in all but the most blatant of cases.
Critics allege that content farms provide relatively low quality content, and that they maximize profit by producing “just good enough” material rather than high-quality articles. Wikipedia adds, “Some sites labeled as content farms may contain a...
I’m not condoning content farms, but if done correctly, this can work very well. One of the more creative ways to utilize retargeting and micro targeting is reaching out to website owners just like you would for link building, but instead of asking...
Topological spamming (link farms): Search engines will look at the percentage of links in the graph compared to known "good" sites. Or more specifically, repetitious or content spinning. Content: Spam/keyword stuffing, hidden text, duplication...
This update seemed to directly target content farms. Bourbon was one of the first updates to really target content scrapers and rogue link wheels (i.e.web properties created for the purpose of interlinking and pointing back to your main website).
That is, backlink farms and web spam backlinking strategies used to get sites ranked higher. Success in social media and organic search is only possible with an optimized content marketing strategy. It also confirms that you won't be penalized by...
Late in April, Forbes took a look at early results to determine how top content farms had been affected by the first two incarnations of Panda. That further progress was seen throughout the year reinforces that subsequent Panda updates did as they...
Google's Panda update was a tweak to the search engine's algorithm that punished websites with content duplicated from elsewhere online and so-called “content farms. Just a few years ago, search engines could be fooled into believing your site was...
This model is similar to how many "content farms" function, but Yahoo's editorial guidelines and review will – hopefully – remove the site from this ill-reputed category. This move could at least in part be due to Google's Panda update, which...
Yahoo has a successful publishing division which – content farms aside – produce up-to-date, well-written content. Produce Kindle-only content using Yahoo’s capabilities, tailored to specific audiences (business, finance, travel, etc.tailored down...
When Google claimed they were going after content farms, and Demand Media's properties (which are explicitly spam) were spared, the reason was obvious, because it would have visibly impacted their bottom line.
Black hats improve search rankings via deceptive content (hidden text, cloaking, link farms, etc.that search engines would value [until they know better]. SEO is a powerful force that can be wielded to dictate the prominent content placement in...
This time around, Panda continued to downgrade the usual suspects: content farms, article directories, aggregators, scrapers, and people-finding search engines. Top losers in Germany include: Facebook Trends, a site that aggregated top content from...
Until earlier this year, I wrote for several of the organizations now lovingly known as content farms (I know, booo, hiss! In addition to writing manuals and copy on contract for companies, selling e-books, and ghostwriting for authors, writing for...
Content Farms May Have a Place After All This one was surprising, as the content farm label became synonymous with crap content in the initial stages of Panda panic. Measure, Then Tailor Content to Your Audience
