Of the ones not marked as content farms or outright spam, 2 (maybe 2.5) are sites I'd be happy to have my mother visit, and the other ones are ad-filled monstrosities whose sole saving grace is that they are not MFA spam or content farms.
Sadly, all of these are quite profitable for me. cries
* Wanted to find something like BCC, ended up on those sites and saw your add.
* Wound up on those sites, saw your ad and said "oh, now that you mention it..."
In other words, is that site putting itself between you and your customers, or is it actually attracting people that might not have otherwise bothered?
Judging by the URLs, they searched for e.g. [how to make bingo cards] and found an eHow page. In an ideal world, I'd rank higher for that than eHow, but I cannot make a page for each of sixty ways to phrase that without essentially copying their farming methods.
I personally never thought the content farm problem was as big as it's blown up to be - but I am genuinely curious to see how far their stock drops after this update. This is mostly because I have little awareness as to how markets work, or how much something like this could potentially impact their stock price.
"Tanks" is just a superfluous term that makes it seem like I personally have it out for them, when in actuality that's not the case. As an SEO, though, they (and other content farms) do compete with many of the websites I work on, so I am glad that they have dipped - although I have no particular ill will against them.
I don't think enough sophisticated investors hold Demand stock for this change, which Demand did a good job of spinning the news of, to have a great impact on the price.
It is mostly pension and mutual funds that make up the shareholding. There aren't even any dedicated analysts on DMD atm.
It helps them that Google didn't mention any companies by name when referring to low-quality content and farms.
When you guys are talking about stocks tanking (or conversely doing very well), do any of you actually short the stock?
I'm asking because I'm a college student and don't have much money, but an opportunity like this looks good.
Buuut I also don't know enough about the market to feel comfortable making a bet like this. My main concern is if people who trade stock often can set their shorts and sell extremely early (maybe minutes after the market opens) leaving the average trader only able to buy shares once the price has fallen too far for a short to be a good strategy.
I poked around on Google but it would also be great to hear what people here think.
SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin suggested a few weeks ago that many SEOs were doing this (I didn't, I've yet to delve into the stock game) - and it made perfect sense to do.
Looks like they released Q4 results yesterday. I suspect investors will react far more strongly to hard data like the Q4 then the FUD created by Google.
