Content Farms, Spam and Google's Algorithmic Changes

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How to consider a certain content to be a helpful one and what’s really just content farms. One thing that turns Google users and Google itself off is about bad content or otherwise known as content farms. The statement from Google means that websites with no unique content are ‘cracked associate websites’ and unacceptable except when it potentially improves user experience but Google still has a debate on this how to consider content farms web spam.  As I see it, this would be an interesting to keep an eye to.

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However Google has made spam reporting accessible with a web spam report Chrome extension prioritizing spam reports based on user impact and that if you're doing a spam report that has a bigger impact, Google will look at it manually. 

Let’s take a look at some sites to point out content which are most nearly are spam or that these content really are farms. 

Quality Content on Big Sites

There are several websites that keep on generating really quality content and some they use the content to build back links to their sites. The trend now to some big content sites or even those aren’t a content sites is that they do have some crap articles to bring up a special site with a special niche. How they do this? They are using a hub site to where they submit the crap content and leaving the good quality in their site. The crap would then support the niche site. Some also are creating great content on all hub sites and simply using the niche sites to support the main piece. 

Content Farms - A Crap Content

This is a technique of many sites that gains authority by generating and producing huge amounts of crap content. How they do this? It is either by cheating out on the content or scraping content with the intention of targeting specific keywords. So it started with a crap and if they find out that the site still need a boost up, then they back up site by building other sites loaded with the same old crap and then use the content to build back links to the site. 

Quality Content Backed Up By Crap

Some sites have really work hard enough to produce an excellent and descent content and then distribute a crap one intended purely to boost the rankings for the main site. In other words, they simply share out the good content everywhere for the links. 

I understand why Google is in debate with this matter, it’s a way of distributing information but on the other side of the argument, these strategies really have any negative consequences on the part of the users and SEO to find the quality pages. 

The other trend was the latest Google algorithmic changes"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, says Google.


The 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. 

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With this changes, and so on, I believe SEO will always find new methods to ride on the system. I think Google has already made a step forward in terms of providing the best quality search results.