It seems that Google have activated their new Content Farm Filtering Algorithm in an efforts to reduce the effectiveness of content farms in make search better search results. Having a few sites of my own I find that the have gone completely of the listings. So am I a Content Farm, I think not, I enjoy finding information for my other websites and sharing it with others. Do I make any money from them, very little but Google see fit eliminate their effectiveness, Let’s hope that Google’s Algorithm team have a reality check and realise that to become popular people you need to be recommended or told about what’s on offer. If everyone wrote original content then nothing would ever be found as it would all be different. Another way to look at this is when there is a big event like the Super Bowl and everyone blogs about it is that Content Farming or are we not to talk about them.
So the big you’ve got to ask yourself is what is a Content Farm?
The easiest way to describe a content farms in one which copies content from another or those which don’t have added value ( not sure of the definition of added value) could be classed as Content Farms. Those sites which are classed as Content Farms and use Adsense will see a massive reduction in search results, ranking, their earnings and is against the terms of service. Again here it has a knock on effect to those happily making minor amounts to cover hosting costs and promoting other sites.
If you’ve been affected by google’s algorithm then please leave a comment.
