Building a Content Farm in 2026

I appear to be building a content farm. That is not how I described ActuallyRandom.com when I bought the domain. I called it an outlet for the ideas that bounce around my ADHD brain, a place to experiment with AI-generated writing, SEO, advertising and affiliate links. It sounds friendlier when I put it that way. Still, the basic plan is to publish articles, attract people from search engines and eventually make a little money from their visits. That is close enough to a content farm that pretending otherwise would be silly. ...

July 10, 2026 · 19 min · Nathan Broadbent

Mining 2,286 ChatGPT conversations for blog posts people actually search for

I have been using ChatGPT since December 2022. Every question I asked it is sitting in an export on my home server. That is three years of me being curious about things, in writing, timestamped. Some of those questions must be questions other people are asking Google. The interesting problem is working out which ones, without paying for an SEO tool. The corpus The export normalizes to 2,286 markdown files, one per conversation, at about 27 MB. Titles are generated by ChatGPT, so they are labels rather than questions. The actual question I typed is the first **user:** block in each file. ...

July 10, 2026 · 7 min · Nathan Broadbent