I Created A Content Mill, Made 50 Shitty Articles, and Here’s The Results – Blog – Copywriting Course Members Area

Today’s media landscape is filled with content mills. Not only are they running their own content mill web sites, like the above, but they are now providing content to mainstream news media.

Many articles are written by low paid, very young writers, anxious to get a byline. It is as business that preys upon young writers with their new BA in English or journalism. Some articles are outsourced to writers overseas, where costs are low. And some are written by generative AI.

And nearly all of them are garbage click-bait fluff pieces. The goal is to generate eye balls for ad networks, through search-engine optimization and sale to mainstream web sites that now play the same games – doing everything they can to generate clicks via massive amounts of fluffy content.