Google has been plagued by black market business practices and content farms for a while . Content farms are low quality sites that attract traffic with ( mostly ) useless content . While the change will surely have many website owners up in arms , complaining that their website was unfairly ranked lower than before ( we 're sure that in some cases they will be right ) , it 's a very welcome one . The change would affect 11.8 percent of Google 's revenue .
Google has been plagued by black market business practices and content farms for a while . Content farms are low quality sites that attract traffic with ( mostly ) useless content . The change would affect 11.8 percent of Google 's revenue .