Domain Owl

The war for domainers to get fresh content has never been more fierce.  Forums and online boards have listings and competitive freelancers vying for business.  Whether or not you are in the market,  if you have time review the article in Time magazine this week about Demand media.

But the actual search engine optimization results are not really shown in the article. And it’s hard to ask domainers to shell out big bucks for content they don’t know will result in traffic.

But what need does the public have for such content? Man content writers will tell you about curious assignments for rewrites and content topics released and assigned in an unusual schedule or within a confined cycle of production days. Many content writers have suspected they were used to produce material resold to Demand Media or other content farms without their knowledge. The demand for fresh content churns the content “machine”.

But is the Time article for the public or for the website administrative community? Time may be getting the word out to newbs via its article, but domain name buyers and sellers have known for some time that algorhythm driven content does not always result in traffic. It can help domainers come up with assignments for end user data, but it cannot leverage results.

The line between web journalism and algorhythmic artificial production of content has been further blurred. The relationship between humanistic writing and business goal text production is a definition many domainers still get confused about. Bots and scrubbers do not click on ads, but they do produce content and SEO reports. Time’s article suggest that companies like Demand Media fill in the blank.

Demand Media is a “content farm”, a bulk output source for article and text for websites on every topic. A content provider startup that seems to be working in the forefront of article generation for website content, Demand Media is profiled as a cultural synthesis of business and technology.

The horde of online freelancers looking for content work is hardly news to domainers. But what’s missing from the Time article is one tiny little fact: however many algorhythms work to predict most lucrative keywords, it is human interest and human inquiry which drive ad clicking and offer pursuit on the visitor side of any website. As long as this stays constant on the internet, then the humanistic contribution cannot be overvalued.