Following on from my previous entry, I’m still on the subject of quality content, and the lack of it on so many web sites and blogs.
You may have come across it yourself. You click through to a site where you believe there will be some useful information about a subject you’re researching, and instead of reading something you can understand and follow, you find yourself reading complete nonsense.
How can people produce such stuff and then stick it up on their blog without bothering to read it? Or perhaps they did read it in many cases but still decided to put it up. Either way, it says something about what they think of their visitors.
It’s not just article spinners, which I mentioned briefly in the last posting on 25th May. It’s also another piece of software called “Automatic Content Providers”. These clever programs scour the internet, at the click of a button, for any articles, videos, images or audio files that are on the topic specified. The user then collects and slaps them up on his page, often without even looking at them.
Of course this can be done not just for the user’s own site or blog, but as a “service” for others. A lot of money can be earned by someone pretending to be able to provide valuable content for your site or blog. But if they use these article spinners or automatic content providers then they’re simply obtaining money by false pretences, and not providing a genuine service. Once their customers find out what is happening the game is up and these fraudsters have to look for a fresh lot of victims.
So the moral is to be very careful when you select a content provider for your web site or blog. Make sure you’re getting genuine, original content written by the person you believe to be writing it. No article spinners or automatically generated content.
Philip Gegan
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