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What's up with the Demand Media surge?

Posted February 17, 2012 - 7:17 pm

Shares of Demand Media, the company that put the term "content farm" on the map, soared nearly 34% on Friday after fourth-quarter results narrowly topped expectations.
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Demand Media headed below $10 a share

Posted July 18, 2011 - 2:58 pm

Content farm Demand Media's stock continues its slide toward single digits.
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Is Google's Panda devouring Demand Media traffic?

Posted April 18, 2011 - 9:03 pm

Shares of Demand Media tumbled nearly 11% Monday after SEO software firm Sistrix GmbH published a report showing that flagship site eHow.com's visibility on Google has plummeted 66% since a search algorithm update last week.
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At AOL and HuffPost, it's all about quality

Posted March 18, 2011 - 8:52 am

I know this has nothing to do with tech business per se, but the screenshot below from Friday's Huffington Post says it all about where the AOLs of the world want to lead us.
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The AOL Way: Layoffs, lies about 'quality content'

Posted March 10, 2011 - 4:40 pm

According to a memo from AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong that was leaked to Business Insider, nearly 900 workers are being laid off Thursday in the wake of the company's acquisition of online tabloid The Huffington Post.
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The human cost of content-farm cleanup

Posted March 2, 2011 - 3:31 pm

The collective Internet cheered Google's recent efforts to improve search results by revising its algorithms to downgrade low-quality content produced by "content farms."
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Unholy union of SEO trickeration clears antitrust scrutiny

Posted March 1, 2011 - 5:50 pm

Just when Google thought it was getting a handle on ridding its searches of low-quality content created by content farms, aggregators and SEO-riggers, the marriage of two masters of those dark arts was approved by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
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Google content farm crackdown hurts cheaters, helps users

Posted February 25, 2011 - 6:37 pm

Google is retuning its search algorithms to weed out content farms that waste readers' time with keyword-stuffed Web sites that waste time in a bad way.
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New Google algorithm takes aim at content farms

Posted February 25, 2011 - 11:58 am

If what Google says is true, users will notice a bit less crappy content clogging up their search results, starting almost immediately.
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AOL-HuffPost: Marriage made in content farm/tabloid hell

Posted February 7, 2011 - 12:40 pm

Shares of AOL (NYSE:AOL) dropped more than 4 percent in early trading Monday as investors reacted negatively to news that the troubled Internet pioneer will buy popular online news and entertainment site The Huffington Post for $315 million.
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Content farmers beware: Google's crackdown is underway

Posted January 28, 2011 - 5:29 pm

The end of search engine spam?
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Demand Media climbs 33% in Wall Street debut

Posted January 26, 2011 - 5:59 pm

Internet content farm Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) finished its first day of trading on Wall Street at $22.65, up 33.2 percent from the offer price of $17 per share.
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Google vows renewed crackdown on content farms

Posted January 21, 2011 - 5:21 pm

Something tells me Demand Media won't be mentioning this during its IPO road show.
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