Demand Media Raises the Bar for its Content

Demand Media is shutting down the program that lets anyone publish to its eHow website, Reuters reports, and it plans to raise the quality of its how-to articles and videos by commissioning higher quality stories.

The trend among websites lately to raise the bar of their content is largely credited to Google’s new search algorithm, which reduces the amount of lower-quality content surfacing high in search results. This has posed a serious problem for so-called “content farms.”

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