Back مزرعة محتوى Arabic Content Farm BAR Granja de continguts Catalan Content Farm German Φάρμα περιεχομένου Greek Granja de contenido Spanish مزرعه محتوا Persian Ferme de contenus French Content farm HE Content farm Italian
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A content farm or content mill is a company that employs freelance creators or uses automated tools to generate a large amount of web content which is specifically designed to satisfy algorithms for maximal retrieval by search engines, known as SEO (search engine optimization). Their main goal is to generate advertising revenue through attracting page views,[1] as first exposed in the context of social spam.[2]
Text articles in content farms have been found to contain identical passages across several media sources, leading to questions about the site's placing SEO goals over factual relevance.[3] Proponents of the content farms claim that from a business perspective, traditional journalism is inefficient.[1] Content farms often commission their writers' work based on analysis of search engine queries that proponents represent as "true market demand", a feature that traditional journalism purportedly lacks.[1]
- ^ a b c Dorian Benkoil (July 26, 2010). "Don't Blame the Content Farms". PBS. Archived from the original on July 28, 2010. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
- ^ Markines, Benjamin; Cattuto, Ciro; Menczer, Filippo (2009), "Social Spam Detection" (PDF), Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb '09), ACM, pp. 41–48, doi:10.1145/1531914.1531924, ISBN 978-1-60558-438-6, S2CID 6078349
- ^ Driscoll Miller, Janet (February 1, 2011). "Content Farms: What Are They -- And Why Won't They Just Go Away?". Search Insider. MediaPost. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2014.