How Google promotes bad writing
Google rewards web sites that produce original content by increasing their rankings. It doesn’t matter what nonsense you pump out. If Google thinks it’s new, up the list you go.
This has spawned an industry of “text pimps”, who rehash existing content just enough to make it “new”.
Wall Street Journal writer Lee Gomes goes undercover to take on one such writing assignment and spills the beans 
at WSJ Online.
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Tags: Google, Internet, original content, rankings, text pimps
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:33 am
Couldn’t agree more.
I ran across an article promoting (pimping?) methods to increase Adsense revenues yesterday. There was a suggestions on how to buy content stuffing articles for $5, not the $100/per mentioned in WSJ.
It’s clear what this say about the influence of Adsense. But what does this say about the Web?
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:45 am
Bound to happen — keywords in the meta data were tricked before, and Google ignores them as well now. The focus was meant to be on content, and content + semantics specifically, and now that’s broken. Shame really, but there will always be black hat and white hat developers of SEO, and when black hat gets caught, they can get google banned for good.