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TechStuff Tidbits: Content Farms and Clickbait

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Content Farms Aren't a Content Farm

When i worked for holl stuff works, a lot of our traffic came in through search. So we were benefiting from the the search stuff just like content farms were. In some cases, it was a blatant case of plagiarism. There was no even pretence that these were sights that were trying to get people to go to the sight on their own and then just kind of browse around. Everything on the siht was engineered to be something that would show up in search, and that's they would get their traffic. And it was really, really not great for google, because users were getting disenchanted after encountering so many garbage articles that were ranking in google search. Itwasit

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