Using Programmatic Content
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My company has been approached a number of times by computer generated content providers (like Narrative Science and Comtex). They are providing computer generated content to a number of big name websites.
Does anyone have any experience working with companies like this? We were burned by the first panda update because we were busing boilerplate forms for content
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Exactly. We were using what amounted to computer generated mad-libs to turn out a high volume of content. Panda came along and killed 1/3 of our traffic. We were also sent us a warning that we would be delisted.
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Have you seen this article? http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/can-an-algorithm-write-a-better-news-story-than-a-human-reporter/
Sounds like this is legit for now.
"If you click that “little or no original content” link, it takes you to a page with some examples. Among them: thin affiliate sites, doorway pages, scraped content and auto-generated content.
Wait a minute. Auto-generated content?
Auto-generated content: Content generated programatically. Often this will consist of random paragraphs of text that make no sense to the reader but that may contain search keywords.
Well, I don’t think Google had something like Narrative Science in mind when they came up with that, but it poses an interesting question: just how does Google feel about this kind of content? On the one hand, it is “content generated programatically”. On the other hand, it’s not going to “consist of random paragraphs of text that make no sense to the reader.”"
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