Is Triond a Content Farm?
Stem the proliferation of low-quality writing.
Any writer who takes pride in the work they submit here at Triond should be concerned about the article written by Brett Molina titled Google refines search. Brett writes for USA Today and wrote that Google is now targeting content farms. A content farm is a name for a low-quality site whose main goal is to attract search traffic by piling up (mostly) useless content, usually by producing large amounts of low-quality text or by copying it from websites with original content. Are the hairs on your neck standing up yet? Molina’s article was motivated by complaints directed at Google about the quality of the search results. I Wonder if one of the famous Triond “Benefits of Green Tea” or “Top 10 lists” was involved?
After reading article, I wished that I had done screen shots of the Triond News Feed the times where one “writer” was responsible for all 10 entries. That screen shot would have been an illustrative picture for this article!
Triond needs to implement checks on the “writers” here who don’t take the time to spell-check their titles, and who just marginally paraphrase credible work to avoid plagiarism, and who publish at unacceptably high volumes. These people, Trowlifes (trying to concatenate low life and triond), will inevitably induce Google to rank pages from Triond Sites much lower.
The net effect will be that Trowlifes will hurt the reputation of the writers here who take their time to produce quality articles.
I want to close by saying Triond is an excellent place for integrous writers. I do wish they would do something to dam up the torrent of low quality writing.
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Tags: Content farm, Google, low quality writing, triond, USA Today
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March 1st, 2011 at 9:30 am
nice share.
March 8th, 2011 at 4:29 pm
I hope that Triond watches the quality of writing. I wouldn’t like to invest a lot of time writing, only to have the site downgraded due to quality issues. Great article. Thanks.
March 8th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
We feel the same way. There are some excellent writers at Triond. I wish Triond would exercise only a minute amount of quality control. I see way too many cuts and pastes here and very low quality efforts that should never be published.
May 2nd, 2011 at 2:12 pm
I cannot agree more with this post. I’m new to Triond and online writing in general but I’m not new to writing for the print media with a published book to my name.
I find it highly unprofessional of Triond to allow some of the content I have read on their sites to be published. The grammatical errors, the spelling mistakes… Some writers cannot even string a complete sentence together without it sounding like garbage. I read one article (I won’t name it here) and I couldn’t understand a word the writer was saying. Really. It was utter garbage.
The fact of the matter is that no one actually reads the submissions. I wrote an article only today and posted it to Triond. In the time it took me to return to my homepage and check gmail – a few seconds – I found I had a new email from Triond congratulating me on a successful submission. I clicked the link and there was my published article.
No one could have read it that fast.
Unfortunately this will make Triond suffer in Google ranks and publishing content that is so bad will give it the reputation of nothing more than a content farm (which in turn will have a negative impact on the reputations of those who write here).
May 2nd, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Andrew,
Thank you for taking the time to compose such a thoughtful reply. The “editorial team” at Triond is fully automated and allegedly checks for plagiarism and “inappropriate content”. One time I submitted an article that was intentionally unintelligible and loaded with typos. It was eventually rejected in circa 24 hours.
As far as I can can tell, the Google Page Rank does not automatically suffer for articles posted on Triond sites. I have written a few other articles here excoriating Triond’s refusal to implement measures that would suspend spammer accounts or excise comments with URLs.
If you write quality articles, you will eventually make more than pennies from the ads that Google serves up.