Showing posts with label content farming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label content farming. Show all posts

Monday, November 14, 2011

What is Content Farming?


With the recent update of the Google’s search algorithm, websites that practices content farming were slowly banned from the search engine. According to Wiki, content farming “is generating large amounts of textual content which is specifically designed to satisfy algorithms for maximal retrieval by automated search engines. This is to generate advertising revenue through page views.”

For Google, content farming sites are considered as “low-quality sites” and “sites with no original content.” Oftentimes, websites result to content farming to attract visitors and boost their search engine rankings. Website owners flood their site with duplicate content, as it targets the search results, page views and revenues, disregarding its quality.

The new algorithm, known as “Google Panda,” is banning sites with duplicate content. To avoid this, write your own content. Never copy your content from other sites. Remove low-quality content websites that are linking to your site. Always update your site with a new and original content. Avoid content farming.

Do this and you don’t have to worry about Google’s algorithm. Also, it can help you achieve better rankings on the search engine results page. 

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Google Panda 101


The big news for 2011 in the SEO world is the birth of Google Panda. This algorithm penalizes sites with irrelevant and low-quality content. This update has said to greatly affect the SEO and the social media.

Since the new update, Google has been using its PageRank process to rank websites. The process checks the relevant sites linked to your website, as relevance plays a big role in page ranking. Google gives more value to its popularity and linked sites.

Google Panda has stirred controversies in the online industry. Since many internet businesses get high traffic from Google, it changed the SEO methodologies of the webmaster communities.

The new algorithm maintains the quality and uniqueness of every content.  The goal of this update is to stop content farming. Also, sites with bad quality and duplicate content are ranked lower.

Good and high quality content can pretty much benefit from Google Panda. So, do you think it is working to your advantage or disadvantage?