@Publius2 @shaunh @OceanRedux A lot of those types of blogs are link farms. They exist to fool the Google ranking algorithm into thinking they are real sites talking about things they care about, which boosts SEO.

The text is generated to cover maximum amount of keywords. They used to be written by Indians for $0.50 per article, you could find ads requesting such articles on every freelance site. Probably generated by ChatGPT now, poor pajeets got upgraded out of a job.

The links will be to other "blogs" owned by the same person, or to an affiliate link on Amazon which gets them a 10% referral bonus. String enough blogs together in a network, and Google boosts them to the top of searches.

It's a precursor to Dead Internet Theory, in a way. When the entire first page of search results, the most valuable real estate on the Internet, is occupied by fake sites, it's easy to think no human is actually posting any more.