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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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