✍️📉 Why publishers are taking extreme measures

[bonk]

To comply with Google’s new standards, publishers are:

Cutting ties with some freelancers.

Assigning in-house staff to rewrite articles.

De-indexing content from Google search.

“This feels gross — I’m rewriting other people’s work,” one Dotdash Meredith staffer said. “We’re all working for Google.”

Google clarifies that freelance content itself isn’t a violation, but sites abusing reputation risk being penalized. The message: algorithms now drive editorial strategy.

[JanEmil]

Most articles written by people that don't care about what they write. Just words to get views.

[jacson4]

Writers feeling like they’re just feeding Google’s algorithm shows how broken the system has become.

[EmTeam]

If reputation abuse keeps up, Google penalties could shake the whole content industry.