Do you have a link to that 10k website? My suspicion is that it was punished with helpful content and spam updates not because of content quality, but because the website was not focused on specific area/category/theme of content. We all know and disregard those fake website about everything and nothing. Who Google shouldn't? Also imagine publishing 10k articles and not formatting them? Would that be a red flag? I definitely have more questions than answers.
I never got the link from Mark. All your questions are totally on-point. That's exactly it. They pumped out garbage unformatted content that raised all the red flag and so got wiped out in Google updates. I'm not saying there isn't a good way to use AI content (there is). I'm saying that this is NOT the way to do it. Sounds like we're on the same page.
I tried using ai for content. I edited the ai content to make it more human and correct. But it crashed my ranking. I restore the original content, and my ranking came back up. The only other thing that may have done this, I suppose was the amount of changes I had made, but I think it was the ai content.
@@WhitesparkCa I applied my changes around the end or third week in January. I had only improved a paragraph or two on approximately 3 pages after I read an article saying that Google was going to be fine with AI content, LOL. I would assume that the degree of perplexity and burstiness was too low. And ChatGpt writes in it specific uniform style while commonly using specific detectable words and sentences. Prior to posting a new content, I didn't checked it for Originality.
They wont know... the ai is too good now, especially if you just take a minute to proof read and make any necessary changes before publishing. It's the idiots who publish without reading it that will get punished.
I think Google's AI technology is likely smarter than OpenAI's. While human-tweaked AI content can rank well now, I suspect a future update will be able to identify it. I suspect it's going to be a cat-and-mouse game where the new method works for a while, then stops working when Google rolls out an update, then SEOs will find a different method, then Google will release an update for that. But, in the end, all that Google really cares about is whether or not their search engine is providing helpful, accurate, and quality answers to their searchers. If you can use AI to assist with creating excellent, helpful, and authoritative content that people respond to, then I think Google will be perfectly happy with it.
@@WhitesparkCa My guess is here it may penalize the site if it had a high bounce rate. If the design and content was too spammy and not very useful and was boring then people are not going to engage, I think this is where coming up with more compelling and creative content will be even more important rather than just providing basic facts that will easily be answered by an AI, because if the AI can answer the question why would they bother coming to your website?
Google hates me and I get slapped constantly. The thing is - I am working really hard to follow its flipping guidelines. I also agree with @nathaliefiset5734 - your vids are great! Thank you!!
Your videos are incredible. They should have thousands of views!
Thank you, Nathalie. I appreciate the kind words!
Do you have a link to that 10k website? My suspicion is that it was punished with helpful content and spam updates not because of content quality, but because the website was not focused on specific area/category/theme of content. We all know and disregard those fake website about everything and nothing. Who Google shouldn't? Also imagine publishing 10k articles and not formatting them? Would that be a red flag? I definitely have more questions than answers.
I never got the link from Mark. All your questions are totally on-point. That's exactly it. They pumped out garbage unformatted content that raised all the red flag and so got wiped out in Google updates.
I'm not saying there isn't a good way to use AI content (there is). I'm saying that this is NOT the way to do it.
Sounds like we're on the same page.
So why would anyone use Bard for SEO? Better to use different AI that is less detectable to Google.
I dunno. Is anyone using Bard for SEO? Bard isn't even released yet.
@@WhitesparkCa Im saying in the future. Lawyer SEOs could be disBard 😀
I tried using ai for content. I edited the ai content to make it more human and correct. But it crashed my ranking. I restore the original content, and my ranking came back up. The only other thing that may have done this, I suppose was the amount of changes
I had made, but I think it was the ai content.
Very interesting! When did you do this?
@@WhitesparkCa I applied my changes around the end or third week in January. I had only improved a paragraph or two on approximately 3 pages after I read an article saying that Google was going to be fine with AI content, LOL. I would assume that the degree of perplexity and burstiness was too low. And ChatGpt
writes in it specific uniform style while commonly using specific detectable words and sentences.
Prior to posting a new content, I didn't checked it for Originality.
How does Google know what's ai generated?
They wont know... the ai is too good now, especially if you just take a minute to proof read and make any necessary changes before publishing. It's the idiots who publish without reading it that will get punished.
I think Google's AI technology is likely smarter than OpenAI's. While human-tweaked AI content can rank well now, I suspect a future update will be able to identify it. I suspect it's going to be a cat-and-mouse game where the new method works for a while, then stops working when Google rolls out an update, then SEOs will find a different method, then Google will release an update for that.
But, in the end, all that Google really cares about is whether or not their search engine is providing helpful, accurate, and quality answers to their searchers. If you can use AI to assist with creating excellent, helpful, and authoritative content that people respond to, then I think Google will be perfectly happy with it.
@@WhitesparkCa My guess is here it may penalize the site if it had a high bounce rate. If the design and content was too spammy and not very useful and was boring then people are not going to engage, I think this is where coming up with more compelling and creative content will be even more important rather than just providing basic facts that will easily be answered by an AI, because if the AI can answer the question why would they bother coming to your website?
Google hates me and I get slapped constantly. The thing is - I am working really hard to follow its flipping guidelines. I also agree with @nathaliefiset5734 - your vids are great! Thank you!!
The struggle is real with the verification process. Glad you like my videos! Thanks!