Articles. We love them. Content-rich and drive visitors to our website. Inward links across the internet. Search engines count the keywords and count the links. We get a higher page rank. We come higher in search engines. Our Adsense goes up.
However, having read a few of them, I have to say I have not read so much crap in my life. Anyone who puts this on their website via an RSS feed or by copying the article wholesale is really being stupid. Very few of these “articles” are anything more than keyword-optimized web pages designed to pull in search engines, or outright adverts.
Excuse the length of the quote, but here, as an example, is a quote from a keyword-optimized article:
“The opinion on whos the best free online dating service in America could vary, depending on the person being asked. But there was a popularity survey conducted among Americans and Canadians to find out the best online dating sites. The high rank though does not mean that it is the best free online dating in terms of quality but it does mean that it is by far the most popular.
There are a number of free online dating web sites over the net to choose from....