Despite Google Search not penalizing high-quality AI-generated content, the firm does have safeguards in place to protect users from spam and other content that goes against its policies. It'll be interesting to see how Google's rules evolve over the next few years as AI-generated content bec...
While Google may not be directly penalizing AI-written content, it's definitely targeting low-quality and error-filled content. According to Google, the Lowest Quality Justification for content is based on two factors: Deception:A page with a deceptive purpose is prone to penalties. For example,...
Penalizing thin, AI-generated content:While AI is not banned outright, content must be high-quality, edited by humans, and provide unique value to rank well Emphasizing expertise: Google favors content created by people with first-hand experience or deep knowledge of the topic Effects are sitewide...
The algorithm also targeted link spam aggressively, penalizing paid exchanged links with minimal editorial oversight. While Google clarifies that AI-generated content itself isn’t necessarily harmful, a lack of human oversight and fact-checking can land pages in the spam category. This update also r...
Penalizing the sections or subfolders of a site in violation does not necessarily mean all articles or pages within the section is violating the policy, but this is Google’s current way to right-sizing the violation. Depending on a site’s structure this may cause small...
This could indicate that Google was identifying common issues across many sites and penalizing them. I suspect it could have been an unskillful use of ChatGPT or other AI tools generating low-quality content. If you believe Google’s statements, which I’m skeptical about, their algorithm is ...
Google is now penalizing mobile sites with intrusive interstitials As of January 10th2017, Google will be cracking down on "intrusive interstitials", which they have described as anything that obscures the main content, either prior to, during the user accessing it. They h...
This doc explains that besides evaluating user experience and penalizing sites for excessive pagination and annoying pop-up ads, Google is also looking at who wrote the web content. In other words, they want to know:Does the writer of each piece of content actually know w...
Overview:Penguin 3.0 was a refresh of the Penguin algorithm, targeting sites with poor-quality backlinks. This update allowed sites that had cleaned up their link profiles to recover, while also penalizing new offenders. Key Consideration:Regularly monitor and clean your backlink profile to avoid pe...
Google's latest core update in March 2024 has left many website owners questioning if AI is being targeted. Find out more about the potential impact on your site.