Started by Ben Adler (@bennyhacks) ·
content farms were the dead internet before it had a name
Around 2009–2010 the top search result for anything was some article written in 20 minutes by a freelancer paid a few dollars to target exactly that query. Google's Panda update knocked a lot of them down, but the incentive never went away.
6 sources · 28 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “what happened to ehow content farms”
- Ended at
- Search engine optimization
The Trail
- “what happened to ehow content farms” (google.com)
- Content farm (en.wikipedia.org)
- EHow (en.wikipedia.org)
- Leaf Group (en.wikipedia.org)
- Google Panda (en.wikipedia.org)
february 2011, aimed squarely at thin low-quality pages
- Search engine optimization (en.wikipedia.org)
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