Content Farms
Parsing pages: Is it better to update or remove thin content?
There are three basic strategies for dealing with thin content: update, redirect or noindex. Contributor Kristopher Jones looks at each and says...
Google Panda Update Costs Demand Media $6.4 Million In 4th Quarter?
Demand Media posts $6.4-million loss in fourth quarter from the Los Angeles Times reports that Google’s Panda algorithm is mostly to blame...
Google & Bing Have “Won A Major Victory” Over Content Farms, Study Says
Search engines have “won a major victory” in their battle against so-called content farms. So says the current issue of New...
Yahoo Deletes 75,000 Associated Content Articles, Moves Rest To New Yahoo Voices Site
Yahoo is cleaning up Associated Content by deleting some of the articles, moving the keepers to Yahoo’s domain and giving the site a new...
Demand Media: “We Will Have Fewer eHow.com Assignments For The Foreseeable Future”
Demand Media, the owner of many websites that have often been tagged with the “content farm” label, is planning to slow down its...
Panda’s Winners & Losers In Germany: Bing’s Ciao.de, Wikio.de & More
Google has again slapped a comparison shopping site owned by its primary search competitor, Bing, as part of its most recent expansion of the...
Google Panda Update 2.4: Panda Goes International, In Most Languages
Google has just announced that their “Panda” rankings changes, first launched in the United States in late February and rolled out...
New York Times: Yes, Google’s Panda Update Hit NYT-Owned About.com
The New York Times Company has confirmed recent reports that its About.com property was one of the sites that suffered traffic declines in the...
Hitwise Data Pegs Panda Impact On Demand Media Sites At 40%
Demand Media sites have suffered an estimated loss of about 40% of overall Google traffic since the Panda/Farmer update took effect....
Demand Media: Panda’s Impact On eHow.com “Significantly Overstated”
Demand Media says recent reports have “significant overstated” the impact of Google’s Panda update on eHow.com, its flagship...
Panda Update: Google Lowers The Boom On eHow.com
After escaping damage in the first rollout of Google’s Farmer/Panda update, Demand Media’s eHow.com was reportedly not as fortunate...
Winners & Losers As Panda 2.0 Goes Global? eHow, Bing’s Ciao.co.uk & More
It’s only been 48 hours since Google expanded the Panda/Farmer update to all English language searches outside the US, and we’re...
Panda 2.0: Google Rolls Out Panda Update Internationally & Incorporates Searcher Blocking Data
Late February, Google launched a substantial algorithm change (known as “Farmer” or “Panda”) aimed at identifying...
The Farmer/Panda Update: New Information From Google and The Latest from SMX West
Today at SMX West, the subject of the day was content farms. One session included the founder of (sometimes-called content farm) Associated...
Your Site’s Traffic Has Plummeted Since Google’s Panda Update. Now What?
Google’s latest algorithm change has impacted nearly 12% of queries. That means that a lot of sites, big and small, are looking at their...
Google Speaks More About The Farmer Update, AKA Panda Update
In an interview with Wired magazine’s Steven Levy (who’s keynoting at our SMX West conference next week), Googlers Amit Singhal and...
More Farmer Update Winners, Losers: Wikihow, Blippr & Yahoo Answers
As search industry analysts continue to review the fallout from last week’s Google Farmer update, we’re getting new snapshots of...
Google Trying To Minimize Collateral Damage From “Farmer” Update
Google is aware that some “good” sites have been hurt by the recent Farmer algorithm update and is working to fix the problem...
Number Crunchers: Who Lost In Google’s Panda Algorithm Change?
On Thursday, Google announced a major change to its search algorithm, designed to weed out shallow and low-quality content from its top search...
Google Forecloses On Content Farms With “Panda” Algorithm Update
In January, Google promised that it would take action against content farms that were gaining top listings with “shallow” or...