Cult of Mac Has Been Hit By Google’s War On Content Farms | Cult of Mac
Google’s tweaking usually has unintended consequences, some good, some bad. It’s all too easy to confuse real community sites and blogs with the big bot content pharm$, and I think it’s had some negative impacts here in the past.
It’s a beautiful morning here in San Francisco to wake up and find your website has been effectively disappeared off the web by Google.
Cult of Mac has been downgraded by the changes Google has made to its algorithm to rerank content farms like Demand Media.
We’ve become a civilian casualty in the war against content farms.
You can read more about here in The Guardian, which highlighted us in a story about legit sites hit by the changes.
We’re not alone. Also affected is the British Medical Journal, PR Newswire, and one of the earliest online communities, The Well. According to an analysis by Sistrix, an independent search-engine analyst firm, hundreds of other legitimate, hardworking sites have also been hit.