Today The Google announced a change to their algorithm. Turns out they were serious about that whole punishing low quality content thing.
Of course everyone is curious to know if the usual suspects are impacted (they are) but what about the little guy? You know those small time content farmers out there trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents worth of Adsense? I went out to the farms today to get their reaction.
Here is what they had to say.





For more info on today’s “Farmer” update see Danny Sullivan’s writeup.
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February 25th, 2011 at 6:55 am
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May 3rd, 2011 at 1:59 am
Hahhaaha. Im not too bright today. Great post!