AI content: Is it helpful or spam?

When Google announced the helpful content update, many in the SEO industry expected AI-generated content to get hit hard. I was expecting AI-generated content to get wiped out by this supposedly sweeping update, comparable to 2011’s Panda algorithm update. Yet, no major impact was recorded. Soon after, Google released the October 2022 spam update and that’s when we saw […]

5 Times ChatGPT Steered Me Wrong in Local SEO

If it looks like a cat and sits like a cat, it must be… OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a novelty that most SEOs are exploring right now for its ability to have a conversation with us about complex questions. It may be a major search disruptor and a threat to Google, a useful tool, a source of inspiration, and a societal […]

What Triggers Google Panda

Thin content – Weak pages with very little relevant or substantive text and resources, such as a set of pages describing a variety of health conditions with only a few sentences present on each page. Duplicate content – Copied content that appears on the Internet in more than one place. Duplicate content issues can also happen on your […]