What is Content farming?

[Steve Markson]

A website which attempts to attract users and develop its search engine rankings by publishing great amounts of low quality content or content copied from other websites. It is unethical and not only infuriates the search engines but your potential customers as well. If you are into black hat SEO tactics, content farming would be one of them.

[openeshore]

Content farms use a large pool of freelancers who choose or are assigned ideas from a list that is compiled by analyzing user search data. The main goal of Content Farms isn't to produce high quality articles, it is to attract search engine traffic to generate advertising revenue.

[FunckyMouse]

A content farm, also called a content mill, is a Web site whose content is written for search engine bots instead of human readers. Topics on a content farm are chosen specifically for their ability to rank highly in search engine results.

[uthra]

Content farm is a site that scrapes content from other sites and slaps ads against it. Demand Media meanwhile has an army of freelancers who create original content that they put ads against.Content farms on the other hand look much more legitimate. These are big and oftentimes massive sites which contains all sorts of information. The sites which got rewarded were the sites with high quality unique content and the sites which were penalized were the sites with low-quality or spammy content.

[betncale]

A content farm, also called a content mill, is a Web site whose content is written for search engine bots instead of human readers. Topics on a content farm are chosen specifically for their ability to rank highly in search engine results.

[kadylopez]

In the context of the World Wide Web, a content farm (or content mill) is a company that employs large numbers of often freelance writers to generate large amounts of textual content which is specifically designed to satisfy algorithms for maximal retrieval by automated search engines

[anjali_talking]

Thanks for the share knowledge about content farming. And one thing we must know that this is a kind of black-hat trick so we should avoid it.

[dalevarman]

Content farm also called content mill is a website whose written content in search engine bots instead of human readers. Content farm are chosen specifically for their ability to rank highly in search engine results.

[Akshay_M]

This business is probably not sustainable. In many ways, it is/was a business of opportunity, taking advantage of weaknesses in google and other search engines. One tweak of the google code can, and often does, put them far back in the search results.