Thanks to Panda, content farms start harvesting less content
Love them or hate them, content farms are a reality on today’s web. Thanks to the strength of the search economy, savvy upstart publishers realized that there was money to be made mass-producing search engine-friendly content on the cheap.
But content farming’s success may have been its downfall. As the SERPs filled up with articles of dubious value, search engines have fought back. Some went so far as to ban well-known content farms from their indexes.
Banning large, prominent sites is, for obvious reasons, a challenging proposition for Google. But it too has fought back hard against content farms using ts algorithm.
While the verdict is out as to whether it’s changes are improving search quality on the world’s largest search engine, it appears that some content farmers are adjusting their businesses.