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content farming

  • a word derived from content farm.
    content farm
    noun
    a website that seeks to elevate the ranking of its pages in search results and to attract advertisers by incorporating popular search terms in its high-volume content, often with little attention to originality, appropriateness, or quality of content.

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"But it also enables stuff that's kind of content farming, and that's the stuff that we don't want to have."

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Some marketers, however, worry that the suggestions they are hearing closely resemble content farming, a practice as old as the internet that gives priority to quantity over quality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

None of these journalists believe they’re serving a higher purpose other than content farming.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025

They’d be well advised to fire their Growth Hackers and start prioritizing intellectual integrity over content farming.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2017

This isn’t an obligatory exercise in multiplatform brand leveraging, as the marketing types might put it, or the beginning of our descent into soul-deadening content farming.

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2015

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