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I think I killed my startup with GPT generated pages

Jan 5, 2025
14:14

E550: This guy nuked his company by getting greedy with AI generated pages after first seeing success.

This is a story mirrored by many reckless SEOs and webmasters.

I even share a story of a startup I’ve been monitoring for over a year now. They used tens of thousands of AI generated pages to rank for 213,000 keywords in just a few months. Now… they only rank for 1 keyword in the top positions of Google. Absolutely decimated.

But it turns out it is possible to recover from having your site penalized for using AI-generated spam. I share how one webmaster personally did it and how others say it has been done.

I think I killed my startup with GPT generated pages: https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1hu5jgw/i_think_killed_my_startup_with_gpt_generated_pages/

Google penalizing all Google Search Console properties: https://x.com/NicheSiteLady/status/1766043621529174081

This website didn’t exist one year ago: https://edwardsturm.com/articles/this-website-didnt-exist-one-year-ago-remarkable-seo-story/

00:00 Introduction 00:26 A Year of Monitoring an AI Site 01:15 Reddit Thread: Seeking Advice from the SEO Community 02:48 Google's Spam Policy and Scaled Content Abuse 03:57 Recovery Strategies and Success Stories 04:18 Google Search Console 08:03 Additional Comments 10:14 Case Study: Eightify.app’s Rise and Fall 13:49 Closing Remarks

The Edward Show. Your daily search engine optimization podcast: https://edwardsturm.com/the-edward-show/

#seotips #searchengineoptimization #digitalmarketing #marketingstrategy

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