AI Spam Sites Surge in Search Results, Outranking Human Creators
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AI-generated spam sites are surging in Google search results after the latest March 2024 spam update, outranking human-created sites. One site went from 0 to 15.6K top 10 rankings in 2 days.
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The spam sites use AI-generated articles and images that follow templates. All articles score as 100% AI-written when tested, yet rank highly.
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A food blogger noted the spam sites are demoralizing for human creators who invest time creating original, helpful content only to be outranked by AI spam.
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The sites may be exploiting Google's algorithm that gives new pages a initial ranking boost for testing. By churning out new pages daily, some constantly get the boost.
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Google has long struggled with AI spam sites dominating results. The latest incident shows spammers continue to beat Google's algorithms, despite the recent spam update.