How Google Killed My Content Farm

Everything was fine until the Panda showed up

Photo by Tayler Smith. Prop Styling by Caroline Dorn

“Our current writer and editor roles have ended,” the email read. “Effective immediately.”

There were many predictable phrases in the 700-word email that arrived in my inbox late in the day on December 1, 2011. Things like “fast-changing environment” and “some hard decisions,” but those two words —…