Google Gets Ready to fight "content farms"

I noticed a lot of useless ehow contents recently...

It sounds as if Google is referring to syndicators as content farms. And...the percerption of content farms are of "low quality" content. Correct me if I'm wrong.

So...what happens to Google News and Google Buzz and many of it's other properties that it owns? Google has it's own fair share of properties that should fall into those same guidelines.

And as far as quality content goes: One man's trash is another man's treasure. That's a personal perspective. What I would think is useless crap as far as content, that same content might serve as the Golden Goose for another.

I doubt that Google can actually capture controll of the worth or value of content. Google has to follow it's users in order to stay competively on top like they have. I think they will allow the users to make the determination of quality content for them...so I would be more concerned with how they track a users behavior.

With that said, I also think that Google will look even more towards social proof to make those determinations for the serps.

So people...hang on for the ride and get your "likes" on.

You can be more knowledgeable than people with MD's and ASE certified tech. Think Good Will Hunting. Especially for something like bodybuilding that is fringe. If the internet won't allow for maven's where are they supposed to go?

Content farms are typically considered autoblogs, blog networks,ect. Basically sites with badly spun content, designed to either rank high or get backlink juice.

Sites like article directory's,especially ones that are humanly moderated are far from link farms. And just like the "journalistic" piece pointed out they are often "labeled" as content farms. That doesn't mean they ARE.

I think what they're saying is that they'll be looking at sites that duplicate certain well known sites that permit their content to be copied under certain conditions. This would include Wikipedia (which they already check for to some degree), StackOverflow, EZA and other article directories and some other sites. These sites won't be penalized themselves but sites that duplicate their content in mass will be.

Also, they'll probably try to weed out things that are scrapes of Amazon reviews, Yahoo Answers, eBay product listings and such. They may work their way down to common PLR and database sites although this may prove more difficult for them to pull off beyond the low lying fruit stage.

No joke, I'm jealous of those Adsense Ads directly below the content, I bet they have an awesome CTR!

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Hi,

What's going on in Google is because everyone is "Google This" and "Google That" for lots of things. Worshipping Google.

So Google is thinking that everyone needs it.

If that is the case, then Google can do just whatever it wants.

This includes the Google Slap, Google Ban, now Google Relevance and soon Google Spam.

Please remember, Google users were complaining that the Search Results are getting spammier and more irrelevant. True.

Everyone here knows that more people are writing for SEO rather than quality content. So users' complaints are somewhat true.

But...if Google is attacking whatever they defined as Content Farm, it seems to be an attack towards it's rising competitors.

For instance, if I want to search for something specific or niche, I no longer go to Google. Google is way too spammy. I did try searching Google's very own content farm called Knol, but I don't like it.

I do the search in EZA, Associated Content, Ehow, 5min, Howto, Answers, About and Bing. I bet there are a growing set of people like me, big enough numbers that worries Google.

Google is also worried about rising Advertising Channels, which are jeopardising Adwords and Adsense. Not only that. Google is also competing with CPA and CPS Networks - where more and more are becoming affiliates. Many dropped Adsense out from their web space. Many are advertising in 2nd Tier channels.

Not our fault. Google is charging very expensive, getting billions and billions but paying peanuts to affiliates.

So after competitors, the second group Google is attacking in its latest move is IMers, like us.

So what do we do about it?