I don't even understand enough to search Google (or even to frame a good Ask HN here) so spare me the flames. Co-incidentally, I looked at the new project emails from my freelancer account a week by and found an Indian employer (who as it turns out, lives in my city) who was willing to pay me 75Rs for 500 words. I started working for him and made 500 bucks in a few hours, and he is still giving me work.

But I was curious about the kind of work that he gives me, "write <number of articles usually 5 or above > <number of words> articles with <keyword> in it with density 1-2%" is the standard. I don't understand what his clients are doing with this content, I usually just rephrase or summarize the Wikipedia pages.

Can anybody explain how all this works? And on another note, what is the effect of domain name on SEO, would holding toplevel domain be better than holding a .blogspot.com or .wordpress.com?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1830541

Edit: Am also confused about how they select the keyword? As I have discovered, you can literally write over 50 articles for anything.

Also what advertisers do they use. Adsense wouldn't approve them these days.