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Re: Building 2k Unique SEO Pages with GPT-3

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Post by purerandomness » Fri, Oct 08, 2021, 10:33 PM UTC

vesuvianvenus wrote: post #5

Wow. AI enabled Zapier to create ~29,800 variations of landing pages... Just so they can market to anyone who googles some variation of apps that Zapier offers integrations for. 29,800 virtually worthless, promotional content-marketing articles. Essentially, AI is polluting human-written content with bland, AI-written content. This is terrible. This is the type of thing that makes the internet less valuable and less…

If Google won't enable AI-filtering AI, they'll become irrelevant, and people will migrate, just as they did away from Altavista.

I'd be surprised if Google didn't already devalue "content" created by GPT-3.

Re: Building 2k Unique SEO Pages with GPT-3

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Post by yodon » Fri, Oct 08, 2021, 10:34 PM UTC

Google's ranking team will obviously respond to this kind of page replication/variants if it becomes a common thing. What will be interesting to see is whether they favor it (because it gives searchers better more targeted and more actionable results) or punish it (because it pollutes the search results with near duplicates).

Perhaps sites will need to add a new form of cardinal url metadata to hint around this kind of customization?

Re: Building 2k Unique SEO Pages with GPT-3

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Post by vesuvianvenus » Fri, Oct 08, 2021, 10:57 PM UTC

zibzab wrote: post #3

I have seen an extreme number of fake blogs showing up on search engine front pages recently. A massive army of random generated blogs from many countries to sell you all kind of (real) products for their local markets. Maybe GPT-3 is to blame for that.

Same here. Occasionally I will do an esoteric search and the only responses I get are obviously pages which were written automatically. They do not contain normal language, but rather a mish-mash of meaningless-outside-of-a-context text content. Very weird and hacky-- I always feel suspicious of such pages as if viewing them would somehow get me one step closer to getting my computer hacked.

Re: Building 2k Unique SEO Pages with GPT-3

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Post by jokethrowaway » Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 10:44 AM UTC

zibzab wrote: post #3

I have seen an extreme number of fake blogs showing up on search engine front pages recently. A massive army of random generated blogs from many countries to sell you all kind of (real) products for their local markets. Maybe GPT-3 is to blame for that.

They've always been there. That's literally what SEO companies do: create thematic content farm, link each other to become relevant and then sell backlinks to customers.

They were just written by cheap labour overseas and used spinners to generate multiple unique pages.

Eg. {this is great|awesome}, I can {generate 4 articles with this|make money while I drink pina colada on the beach}

Re: Building 2k Unique SEO Pages with GPT-3

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Post by jokethrowaway » Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 10:48 AM UTC

I ran a business 10 years ago that was receiving tons of user queries (think like a search engine) and in order to rank first on Google we were just counting the X thousands most popular queries, generating landing pages with little content for all of them and then submitting them as multiple sitemaps. It worked really well, but that was before Panda. Google became more picky about writing unique content, I've heard.