Thanks for the link love, Lori.

Ashley, good eye. 🙂 Most of the stuff I've found that's been generated by content farms tend to be slapped together and not well written. There are exceptions, including the plagiarized piece (complete with stolen illustrations) that the author found and went after eHow for. And like I said, some exceptional writers for some reason think it's easy money (not realizing the damage to the reputation).

Anne, I sent you a note. 🙂

Kathy, amen is right. Now is when these writers need to step up their marketing (meaning learn HOW to market) if they plan to survive.

I've mentioned it here before. A new-to-me editor assigned a first-person account of my family's experience exchanging hand-made gifts. I followed her assignment letter precisely. I even turned it in early. Weeks passed before she responded saying she wanted a rewrite focusing on three gifts projects anyone of any skill level could make in 30 minutes. Right. The things we made took days or weeks. I talked her up to an hour. But that meant finding three lame last minute "gifts" people could slap together with no talent and no real though. I dug up three ideas, provided URLS to online examples as requested. They paid, but she never sent me a copy even after several requests. I finally spotted it online and only one of my examples was used and the "article" looked as if it had been cobbled together in 30 minutes. My name is on it, but I never used it as a clip since 1) it sucks, and 2) less than 1/3 of it is my work.

Jenn, I wonder if their omission of sites like DMS was intentional? I hope they're including in the webspam description, and I hope it's because Google users are complaining in droves about the garbage that shows up on these searches. I've stopped using Google – I want content, not crap posing as content.