Google Cracking Down On Content Farms

[TestCase]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/02/15/google.content.farms/index.html?hpt=Sbin

And Blekko is banning them from their results (this would probably seem even more important to me if I could remember there is a search engine actually called Blekko...)

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110201006363/en/Blekko-Bans-Top-20-Content-Farms-Search

Better start updating your sites with good quality original content!

 

[wishbone]

Good resources and news, content update should always be a priority..

 

[thebutler]

The content farm business model that just scraped content is worried. They say they will be building more content for their websites. Should be interesting in the serps this year.

 

[TestCase]

2-24-11
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-quality-sites-in.html

"Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. But in the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking—a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries—and we wanted to let people know what’s going on. This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on."

 

[JB Lions]

Nothing has really changed. They've always tried to crack down on spam, content farms, low quality sites etc. They're just making a very public statement in hopes that people after reading it, produce less of it, to help make their job easier.

 

[dWhite]

I quite enjoy this recent update, and strongly approve of Google doing this.

It's about time Google did something about these farms spewing poor quality content into the index.