For the first time, Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) is putting a number on how Google’s changes to its search algorithm have impacted its sites, saying during its earnings call today that search referral traffic to its flagship eHow site is down 20 percent since Google (NSDQ: GOOG) made the first…

Traffic to some of Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) sites may have fallen because of updates Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made to its search algorithm, but that does not seem to have impacted the company’s earnings results very much—if at all. The company reported better-than-expected sales for the quarter, posting revenue…

Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) is launching three initiatives to change the mix of content it showcases on its sites: The so-called content farm, which has been under pressure to improve the quality of content on its sites, says it will take down some articles that were created under a program…

Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) says changes Google (NSDQ: GOOG) made to its search algorithm have in fact reduced traffic to its sites, including its flagship eHow. However, the company is downplaying the overall impact, saying in a statement that the changes have resulted in only “moderately lower” year-to-date page view…

Definitely not a bad year to be a top Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) executive. The company, which expects to lose money this year, just doled out $950,000-plus in bonuses to its top five executives. In an SEC filing, the company says that “based on the company’s financial and operating performance…

Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has launched its latest celebrity backed site, the Tyra Banks’ beauty and fashion blog typeF this week, but the company hasn’t forgotten its primary traffic driver, eHow, which just got its own makeover. Aside from the new, more defined topic sections, the site has also added…

Investors may be betting against “content farms” fortunes, if trends seen in Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) are anything to go by.

Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has made its first acquisition since its initial public offering in January, purchasing popular live blogging tool CoveritLive. The purchase will bolster Demand Media’s Pluck social media platform, which lets customers add online forums, photo galleries, and other social tools to their sites.

Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), which launched Livestrong with Lance Armstrong and is on the verge of launching TypeF with Tyra Banks, has added another celebrity to its list of partners. The company is working with celebrity chef Rachael Ray to create “co-branded content” on eHow.

The growing consensus in the wake of Google’s move last week to change its search algorithm to penalize sites with low-quality content: Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) made out okay, although some other so-called “content farms” were not so lucky.

In late January, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) said it was working to ensure its search results were not overridden with links to spammy sites and so-called content farms. The timing could not have been worse for Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), which is widely considered to be the biggest content farm on…

Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) CEO Richard Rosenblatt used his company’s first earnings conference call as a public company in part to defend it against criticism that the content it produces is shallow and of poor quality, saying that traffic and Facebook “Likes” proved that the company’s content was valuable. “What…

Reporting its first quarterly results since going public in late January, Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) said its sales during its fourth quarter increased 33 percent to $73.6 million, while its net income increased to $1 million, up from a loss of $3.9 million during the same period a year ago.…

Last month at DLD in Munich, in front of top execs from investor Burda, Jason Calacanis offered a fairly staid explanation for the decision to “pivot” Mahalo from “human-powered” search/content factory to an education-centric enterprise. At Signal LA, not so staid. Calacanis came out swinging against low-quality mass content, invoking…

When Demand Media floated earlier this week it started out at $17 a share, rocketed on first day trading to a high of $24, and even after falling back to trade around $22 last night its market cap of $1.8bn still makes it worth more than the New York Times.

Among the questions I got most often at the just-concluded DLD conference in Munich: What about Demand Media’s future following Google’s public stance on cleaning up its search results?  Will it hurt the company’s IPO? My take: depending on Google’s approach, yes, it could hurt but it also could make…

Demand Media’s stock jumped 33 percent on its first day of trading. As we reported yesterday, the company had already priced its shares at $17, above the $14 to $16 a share it had initially said it would sell its stock for. Investors ended up bidding up the company’s stock…

Demand Media, which will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange tomorrow, has priced its shares at $17, according to an SEC filing. That’s above the $14 to $16 a share range that the company had said it expected to sell its shares at and means demand for the…

In the aftermath of its filing for an initial public offering in August, Demand Media was roundly criticized for overstating its financial performance in the past. The WSJ, for instance, pointed out that while the company had said it was profitable in 2009, the filing in fact showed that the…