The Writer's Block

by Alyssa Ast

It's no secret that the unleashing of Google's Panda platform has wrecked havoc throughout the online writing world, causing many writers and companies to change the way they do business in order to survive. Even though the waters have seemed to calm after the original sting of the Panda changes, the results of the new platform are becoming apparent with full force among the writers who work for common content mills. It appears these content mills are struggling to stay afloat, but is it a direct result of the Panda changes?

Is Google Panda Killing Content Mills?
Many people are wondering if Google's Panda is killing content mills, or are they going under for another reason? Content mills have a bad image by most because they require a ton of work for little pay, and they don't hire the best of writers. The content usually lacks quality and relevant facts. Now, I know this isn't the case with every writer who writes for content mills because I know so pretty great writers who haven't broken free from the mills yet. But, it you think about the majority of content mills and the writers who are fine with the pay and requirements, you can clearly see these mills should be banned for taking advantage of writers, which in one way, pretty much dooms content mills to fail.

Yet, many are blaming the demise of content mills on Google's Panda platform, stating the new requirements are just too much for the mills, directly causing them to go under. However, if content mills hired good writers and payed them well, you would think they would have a fighting chance at surviving, right?

In my opinion, yes Google's Panda is causing many of the content mills to go under, but I don't feel it's directly the platform's fault, but instead the content mills. If the content mills stopped walking all over writers who are happy to earn one or two cents per word and up the stakes of the content's quality, they could overcome the platform and succeed. But, I guess some habits are just hard to break, or they mills feel it's just not worth the money.

What do you think? Do you think Google's Panda platform is to blame for the demise of content mills, or are content mills to blame for simply being cheap?

Happy Writing!

Is Google's Panda Platform Killing Content Mills?