Tag: content farms

Demand Media Earnings: Content/Media Revenue Up 15% YoY
Demand Media just released its fourth quarter and fiscal 2011 financial results, beating analysts' expectations, but posting a net loss for the year. The loss includes $5.9 mil...
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2011: Year Of The (Google) Panda
Perhaps the biggest story line in Internet search this year has been the ongoing saga of the Google Panda Update. Let’s recap, and look ahead to next year. Has Panda bee...
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Skyword Gets $6 Million Investment From Cox
Update:Following the publication of this piece, we were reached by Skyword, who appears to take exception to being linked to the "content farm" label. I think people have somewhat...
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Yahoo Gets Rid of 75,000 Associated Content Articles, Launches Yahoo Voices
Yahoo has now decided to follow Demand Media’s lead by deleting 75,000 articles from Associated Content, and is even going so far as to change Associated Content new a new network...
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Helium Account Balances Appear Negative for Writers
Writing community Helium is apparently having some issues in the writers' payments department. If you’re not familiar with Helium otherwise, WebProNews readers may remember the...
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Demand Media Giving Top Writers Assignment Priority
Demand Media is no stranger to controversy, and while the company has clearly taken a much firmer stance on content quality this year, it's leaving some writers lacking a significa...
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Demand Media Writers Offer Different Viewpoints of Assignment Reduction
Demand Media recently alerted Demand Media Studios writers that it would be reducing the amount of assignments it would be given out. As discussed in...
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Demand Media Shifts from “Content Farm” Approach, Writers Lose Income Source
Demand Media, with its site eHow, has essentially been the poster child for the term "content farm" - something the company has done much to distance itself from. CEO Richard Rosen...
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Google Panda Update: eHow Untouched, Says Pleased with Progress on Content Quality
While escaping the wrath of the Panda update again, Demand Media tells WebProNews that it's pleased with the results of its...
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Google Panda Update: HubPages Enables Subdomains to Help Content Recover
Is subdomaining the answer to a recovery from the Google Panda update? After some testing, HubPages is...
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Google Panda Update: The Solution for Recovery?
Many sites are still wondering how they can come back from being hit by the Google Panda update. Google has certainly stressed quality, and victims of the update have been striving...
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Panda Victim Xomba “Dances on the Bones of Content Farms”
Earlier this year, we had a conversation with John Citrone, editor of the online wr...
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4% Say Sites Fully Recovered from Panda Update
We recently ran an interview with Dani Horowitz, who runs Daniweb, an IT discussion forum that got pounded...
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Google Panda Algorithm Update (And Related Stories) – A Roundup
We've been covering a Google's Panda Algorithm update a lot since its initial launch (in some ways even before its launch). We thought it might be useful for some to provide someth...
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Helium Raises $10 Million After Being Victimized by Google Panda Update
Helium is showing that life can go on for victims of Google's Panda update. Helium is a user-gener...
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