What is the value in these types of articles? They contain virtually nothing of any value, and quite often poor advice. Who benefits by their existence? Is i

What is the value in these types of articles? They contain virtually nothing of any value, and quite often poor advice. Who benefits by their existence? Is it an attempt to subvert search engine indexers by creating more "linked-page-mass" ? (a blog like this will have a body of large number of similarly vacuous articles, with the odd outlier of value, as well, I would expect) I am mystified by the large amount of empty content on the web nowadays and would like to know why it's there.