Are "Content Farms" still good for backlinking in articles?
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Out of morbid curiosity, are "Content Farms" still a good source to use for backlinking within articles that you share? I have yet to see some results to base an answer off of for myself.
Some co-workers are wanting to utilize sites like Suite101, ArticlesBase, etc for sharing articles and gaining the benefit of getting some backlinks from these sites. Is this still a good tactic to utilize? My research is telling me no since the Panda Update...
Anyone have any insight on this?
Thanks!
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Appreciate the response. I couldn't agree more with focusing time and resources on the site itself and other quality backlinks. I really just needed some reassurance so I can focus our attention on what is more important.
As mentioned, this question arises from a co-worker (who doesn't understand SEO) doing some research and reading a forum response from last fall about using these "content farm" sites... Initially, I told him that it was a waste of time, but everyone seems to panic when they find a new median source to use without consulting me or doing the research.
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Avoid the sites that got hit with the Google stick. You will spend waste time chasing your tail for nil / minimal gains.
Regards,
Andy
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I would have to agree with you there. Most of these content farms have been dropped by google. You can waste alot of time writing pages when in my opinion, time is better spend optimising the content and quality of your own page and perhaps focus on getting back links from higher quality sites.
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