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What is a content farm?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Figure:<\/b> Content Farm – Author: Seobility – License: CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A content farm is a website that publishes large quantities of low-quality, often rewritten content in a bid to drive as much search engine traffic to their site as possible. Content farms generate revenue through ads on their site, which often requires writers to work at exceptionally low rates in order to produce a profit.\n<\/p>\n

How a content farm works<\/span><\/h2>\n

A content farm works by producing a large volume of content on a range of different topics. Since they create lots of pages, which are optimized during the writing process, content farms tend to rank for a large number of keywords<\/a>. Although there are content farms that focus on a specific industry or niche, many publish articles on a broad range of topics. These articles are usually produced by freelancers, but they can also use aggregated content from other sites. There have been a lot of claims that content farms pay freelancers very low rates for the content to ensure it is profitable.\n<\/p>\n

Content farms monetize their websites using ads. This results in them needing a high number of website visitors to earn a good return on their investment. Content farms used to perform extremely well on search engines, which led to a lot of clutter and near-identical articles ranking. However, back in February of 2011, Google announced [1]<\/a><\/sup> they had made changes to their algorithm to increase the number of high-quality search results. This algorithm update had a large impact on content farms, causing their rankings to drop and many of them losing a large portion of their website traffic<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

When is a site considered a content farm?<\/span><\/h2>\n

When exactly a website is considered a content farm is something not everyone agrees on. However, there are a few important things that indicate a website might be a content farm. Some of these are:\n<\/p>\n