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There used to be an online publisher called Associated Content (bought by Yahoo for $100M in 2010) that used freelancers to write SEO-optimized content. I real
by jawns 7y ago
There used to be an online publisher called Associated Content (bought by Yahoo for $100M in 2010) that used freelancers to write SEO-optimized content.
I realized that I could write some code that would scrape various sources of financial data and generate articles about stock tickers. Managed to make some money before the articles got flagged as too similar to each other, but if I had put a little more effort into differentiating them, I probably could have made a pretty penny.
- grammarxcore 7y agoI think financial data was where the company started. The first vertical I interacted with was real estate listings. We moved to basketball and then baseball. Aside from the articles, we sold "list" ads that would pick stats and throw players in a list. As we built click data, we were able to tune those lists to popular things.
- seibelj 7y agoI heard about this several years ago and became attuned to it. I follow a few small cap companies and cryptocurrencies with google news alerts, and most of the articles sound very robotic and just put data in paragraph form. When the headline is “XYZ up 2.3% today, a 43.9% above average increase” I know it’s computer generated.