I see Blekko is getting better already and 2011 just started. If anyone use's blekko a lot then this blog post is just for you.
Quote: TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/31/blekko-bans-content-farms/
Your thoughts on this move? Also did you see the top 20 list of sites they removed? About 2 of those sites i use.
Interesting, I woudn't have thought that ehow was a "content farm", my take on content farms are those sites have tonnes of articles, that have dupe content and content scraping websites that harvest content using black hat methods (archive.org pages from 10 years ago/old geocities content).
google seems to be in love with ehow though, they rank high in google search results. Even though the site annoys me a little because their content is full of tripe, (full of articles that haven't been researched and someone just though off general advice off their top of their heads when they wrote it) IMO, if one accepts the definition of a "content farm" as quantity over quality then I suspect those 20 names belong on that list.
eHow does for sure. They break their poor articles into paragraph sized pages to serve as many ads as possible. There is seldom any depth to the articles. They often raise questions they don't answer. some of the sites listed here, I haven't actually heard of any of these apart from ehow and answerbag.
Quote: ehow.com
experts-exchange.com
naymz.com
activehotels.com
robtex.com
encyclopedia.com
fixya.com
chacha.com
123people.com
download3k.com
petitionspot.com
the
Quote: TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/31/blekko-bans-content-farms/
Your thoughts on this move? Also did you see the top 20 list of sites they removed? About 2 of those sites i use.
google seems to be in love with ehow though, they rank high in google search results. Even though the site annoys me a little because their content is full of tripe, (full of articles that haven't been researched and someone just though off general advice off their top of their heads when they wrote it) IMO, if one accepts the definition of a "content farm" as quantity over quality then I suspect those 20 names belong on that list.
eHow does for sure. They break their poor articles into paragraph sized pages to serve as many ads as possible. There is seldom any depth to the articles. They often raise questions they don't answer. some of the sites listed here, I haven't actually heard of any of these apart from ehow and answerbag.
Quote: ehow.com
experts-exchange.com
naymz.com
activehotels.com
robtex.com
encyclopedia.com
fixya.com
chacha.com
123people.com
download3k.com
petitionspot.com
the