Thread by @darth_na

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:: It's not about the AI ::

You will see the same sort of pattern whenever there is a mass ingestion of content,
and usually when it fails to get traction/acquire links,
often due to being low quality (inc. cookie-cutter/dupes)

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#SEO #AIContent #LowQualityContent

https://twitter.com/RossHudgens/status/1669804136760770562

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Typically, the sequence of events is:

1) New content is added
2) G discovers new content
3) G crawls new content
4) G indexes new content
5) G ranks the new content for X number of terms

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6) Site gets a huge uplift in traffic
7) G see's little traction/satisfaction
8) G see's little/no link acquisition
9) G starts to tag content as questionable
10) Pages start to drop in rankings
11) Pages start to get deindexed
12) Traffic falls

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Now, if you are lucky ...
... you will end up with :
* slightly more terms covered
* a little more traffic
* possibly more ad/affil. rev, or conversions

But, if you are unlucky (and you may not know how unlucky you are until months have passed/an updated rolled out!)

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... you're bad luck
(sometimes known as "greed and ignorance),
may lead to:
* G dropping all the new content
* weighing the new crap against your site
* your pre-existing content and rankings dropping

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This is the Same Pattern as with normal Spam and Low Quality content!

The differences are:
1) The Quantity is larger
2) The Window is smaller

Those two factors tend to make it far more noticeable.

If you added the same quantity of quality pages,
you see something else!