The system starts with an automated process, crunching data and running it through an algorithm to identify story ideas that have the best chance of success. The algorithm factors in audience type, ability to attract advertising and potential for traffic.<\/em>\u00a0Source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The whole \u201cWhy\u201d of the situation is pretty much easy to decipher. After all, there are over tens of billions of searches every month. That traffic has some serious value, especially for Informational Queries. \u00a0After all, more than\u00a080% of searches<\/a>\u00a0fall within this category. \u00a0It doesn\u2019t really matter if these sites aren\u2019t selling anything, they are monetised either via affiliate links within content or by display ad revenue, selling value by every thousand impressions. Tell me numbers, you say? How much do they really make? At last estimate, one such network reported revenue of\u00a0 over\u00a0\u00a3$200 million a year. EDIT NOTE:\u00a0<\/strong>I screwed up the currency quoted. Thanks to\u00a0Gil<\/a>\u00a0for picking up on that. Quality based content farms aren\u2019t a new concept either.\u00a0Answers.com<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0About.com<\/strong>\u00a0fit the bill and have been milling the content out for years. And google adsense revenue finances many of these sites. I would also argue the case for\u00a0Mahalo<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0MoneySavingExpert<\/strong>\u00a0being included in the label of content farms . MSE had over\u00a071m\u00a0 Page Impressions<\/strong>\u00a0December 2009, while Mahalo averages\u00a015Million unique visitors and over 1Million Adsense<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Clicks a month. \u00a0However, I doubt that the writers \/ developers of this content are paid anywhere near that in perspective:<\/p>\n Demand pays from\u00a0$0 (with revenue sharing)<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0$100 per piece<\/strong>; it averages at $20. Copy editors make $2.50-$3 per piece, which works out to $15-20 an hour. He said these people like to wake up and know there\u2019s work they can do\u2014there are\u00a0100k assignments waiting<\/strong>\u00a0for takers right now\u2014while they wait for old, human editors to respond to pitches. He said they also like being paid twice a week. Kydd said Demand\u00a0employed 4,500 creators<\/strong>\u00a0(text and video) and 400 copy editors in the last 30 days.\u00a0Source<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n McDonaldisation of Content – Is it a Pretty Picture? Photo Source http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/seeminglee\/611540734\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Boutique content sites<\/strong>.\u00a0The rise of content sweatshops like Demand Media will keep putting pressure on content producers who actually offer value. It\u2019s McContent versus the mom and pop diner. Who wins? You make the call (I hope I\u2019m wrong, since I\u2019m the latter)<\/em>. \u2013\u00a0Ian Lurie, Conversation Marketing<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a011 Marketing Trends to Ignore in 2010<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n So what really scares me? It\u2019s the rise of fast food content that will surely, over time, destroy the mom and pop operations that hand craft their content today. It\u2019s the rise of cheap, disposable content on a mass scale, force fed to us by the portals and search engines.Michael Arrington, Techcrunch<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0The End of HandCrafted Content<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2026algorithm-aided human writing will meet human-aided algorithmic curation; quality will rise \u2013\u00a0Jeff Jarvis<\/strong>,\u00a0via Twitter<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I am not sure what stance to take as yet, however I must admit to lean towards Ian and Michael. Niche content has been a\u00a0great opportunity for small businesses<\/a>, and these moms and pops stand to lose out to assembly line content.<\/p>\n Ok, don’t take this tongue-in-cheek approach too seriously, but you can build your own content network too at a fraction of the cost. Yo may not have a \u201cContent determination Algo\u201d<\/strong>, but you do have access to a number of free SEO Tools that can help you determine long tail content. At the same time you can get poor \/ average quality content as well. The example below describes how to put it all together.<\/p>\n (I am running a test using this technique on\u00a0Sookie Stackhouse Novels)<\/p>\n I want to create a content rich site geared solely for search engine traffic. The site is focussed on\u00a0Plumbing<\/strong>. Lets take one of my favourites long tail content research tools :\u00a0Google Suggest<\/strong><\/p>\n Google Suggest Long Tail Content – Plumbing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Aha!\u00a0<\/strong>I now have nine possible topics that I should optimise for. So what do I do next? Well I have the list, now I need someone to actually write the content. So I use any of the services that help me do that at a very low cost. Some that I have used are below:<\/p>\n Typically you can get a 200-400 word article under $4(!). So for 9 articles I would expect to pay around $30-$35.All I need to do now is sit back, wait for the content, approve it and add it to my Plumbing Content site. Of course, as an SEO I know the importance of page titles, URLs, Headings etc, and use all of that to make the content as possible a match to search engine requirements. I havent tried it, but have been recommended Content Now\u00a0as a low cost resource as well.<\/p>\n There you go. I have my own long tail research tool, and my own content mill, all on a budget!<\/strong><\/p>\n Read Write Web have\u00a0 a series of decent posts on Content Farms:<\/strong><\/p>\n The posts below are for suggested by\u00a0Gil Reich, who works at Answers.com:<\/p>\n The name \u201cContent Farm\u201d kind of describes it perfectly. What a strange concept, isn\u2019t it? Or maybe not. Spammers and\u00a0BlackHat SEOs have been auto generating low quality content for long tail search engine rankings for a while now. 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