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Google launches a new anti-spam algorithm against content farms

Earlier this month, Google announced that they will release several new anti-spam algorithms this year. The first algorithm update has just been released and it deals with content farms. What are content farms? There are two slightly different definitions of content farms: 1.     Content farms are scraper sites that aggregate the content from other sources to get high rankings for a variety of long tail keywords. These sites don't have unique content and they only aggregate the content from other websites to get clicks on their AdSense ads. 2.     Content farms are websites that produce low quality content in bulk. This content is often produced by workers from low-wage countries. The main purpose of these sites is to get high rankings for as many keywords as possible to get clicks on the AdSense ads that are displayed on the site. Sites that copy the content from other websites often ranked higher than the original site in Google's previous algorithm. That's why Googl