It reminds me of the reddit IAMA a while back by an affiliate marketer [1]. There were lots of responses by people claiming he was the scum of the earth, poiso

It reminds me of the reddit IAMA a while back by an affiliate marketer [1]. There were lots of responses by people claiming he was the scum of the earth, poisoning the web, not adding value, but he just calmly stated his position that affiliate marketers are a significant source of income for Google, and "Google == value", therefore affiliate marketing has value. Same might be said for content farms, so I reckon your last sentence is on the money. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/azcni/i_made_62232296_in_2009_from_affiliate_marketing/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/azcni/i_made_62232296_...