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Feb 21, 2025 - 09:27 AM
Well....in short...you're breaking Google's spam and "scaled content abuse" policies and they're good enough to know it...and at least that section of your site will likely get crushed over time.
We've seen something similar for a brand new section of a site where they had an intern spam the heck out of it with AI-generated content.....and then they got Crushed by Google....and then they removed all the intern's content and just over the last week it's coming back to live (see chart).
The good news is.....Google seems to not just crush you....they'll also recognize when you fix things. We suspect that Google has some kind of helpful/unhelpful/spam flag that it's judging sections of sites (subdirectories or subdomains) and judging whether they take it seriously or not....and if it reaches a certain threshold, they give it a thumbs up/down. Again, seems they will correct that over time.
Google kind of hints at this in their communication where they said something like "if you have 90 obviously cheap products in your store, how seriously do you take the 10 good products?" See thread below that speaks to this overall view of your site based on content you generate (original content, not the "copycat" stuff content marketers have been creating forever)
It's as if they're making a section/site determination on how seriously they can take the content.....and then rank it accordingly. In your case, looks like they just made the adjustment of how they view your page without you changing anything....in other cases (like the one I pointed to) they're able to pretty effectively weed through Ai-generated content that wasn't appropriately reviewed/moderated....vs legitimate "people first" content with legit information gain.
Don't try to game Google.....simply service your customers...and you'll be rewarded over time. By "doing SEO", companies are destroying their SEO.....by servicing your customers....Answerbase cutomers have seen dramatic growth through 2024 and beyond (example below but we've seen this across the board).
We've seen something similar for a brand new section of a site where they had an intern spam the heck out of it with AI-generated content.....and then they got Crushed by Google....and then they removed all the intern's content and just over the last week it's coming back to live (see chart).
The good news is.....Google seems to not just crush you....they'll also recognize when you fix things. We suspect that Google has some kind of helpful/unhelpful/spam flag that it's judging sections of sites (subdirectories or subdomains) and judging whether they take it seriously or not....and if it reaches a certain threshold, they give it a thumbs up/down. Again, seems they will correct that over time.
Google kind of hints at this in their communication where they said something like "if you have 90 obviously cheap products in your store, how seriously do you take the 10 good products?" See thread below that speaks to this overall view of your site based on content you generate (original content, not the "copycat" stuff content marketers have been creating forever)
It's as if they're making a section/site determination on how seriously they can take the content.....and then rank it accordingly. In your case, looks like they just made the adjustment of how they view your page without you changing anything....in other cases (like the one I pointed to) they're able to pretty effectively weed through Ai-generated content that wasn't appropriately reviewed/moderated....vs legitimate "people first" content with legit information gain.
Don't try to game Google.....simply service your customers...and you'll be rewarded over time. By "doing SEO", companies are destroying their SEO.....by servicing your customers....Answerbase cutomers have seen dramatic growth through 2024 and beyond (example below but we've seen this across the board).
