📰💻 Freelancers feeling the squeeze from Google changes

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Google’s crackdown on “spammy” content is shaking up digital media. Product review articles and coupon pages written by freelancers for publishers like Dotdash Meredith and Forbes are being reworked or removed to avoid penalties.

Dotdash Meredith and Forbes are rewriting freelancer content in-house.

CNN de-indexed some freelancer-written articles to avoid search penalties.

Many freelancers lost assignments or saw their work vanish from search results.

Publishers say it’s about protecting site reputation, but for freelancers, it’s a major disruption.

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Google’s new rules are forcing big publishers to rewrite or scrap freelancer work to stay safe.

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Reviews and coupon pages once driving revenue are now liabilities under the crackdown.