Can AI Content Rank on Google? [My Testing Journey]

[MrDenz]

I see people asking questions about AI/Webs/Rankings/Indexing every day so I decided to share my own experience so far with 2 of my websites. (You are going to find all the answers you need)

I didn't want to just listen to others, I wanted to test it myself and see first-hand results.

I got the answers to all my questions pretty fast, the 2nd site was doing pretty well back in December and January (because of the niche).

Good AI articles will rank, now the question is, what is your knowledge level and your opinion about your articles, are they good or bad?

The best thing to do is to check the top 5 sites in a niche you want to start building up and see how they write their content, so you can get the picture in your head of "what is good content" and "why they rank".

For this test, I was using just free tools to get ideas about what I was looking for, ChatGPT, Ahrefs, and SemRush, you don't even need paid versions, even tho you can get SemRush for just $6 at the BHW marketplace, ChatGPT $20 (worth every single cent), Ahrefs has been acting weird in the last few months, they are slowly losing my trust (just my 2 cents).

Let me show you.​

These are 2 of my sites that I'm currently testing in 2 different niches, and 2 different languages, testing how keywords and ranking will do after some time, 100% AI work, 100% pages indexed, new one in 24 hours max, AdSense approved, 0 link building, 0 problems.

Both sites are fresh sites, with no history, nothing. (I bought 3rd domain but for now, it's on the "waiting list", published just 4 articles, all indexed)

According to Ahrefs Domain Rating for the first web is 1.3, with 13 backlinks, and 8 do-follows - 2nd site has a 0 Domain Rating, 2 backlinks, and 2 do-follows ( )

Site #1 - Didn't do too much, testing out slowly, very hard niche for starting a new website. (I will add a few words later about why you should NOT start with hard niches)

ahrefs

Slooowly starting to get some traction, added a few new articles in February, a really hard niche for a fresh site, hard-core.

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Site #2 - Adsense Approved - Most of the articles were created back in October, November, and December last year, I put more effort into this one.

ahrefs


semrush

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Of course, this is nothing in terms of traffic, anyway, that was not what I was aiming for.

I wanted the answers to simple questions, like:

Do AI generated articles rank?
How powerful they can be?
How will Google react?
Etc...

I was also on Discover for around 40 days.

2nd site Performance - 20 articles published

Image Search

321 queries with at least 1 organic click - Over 3500+ search queries - 0 backlinking

Some Google Analytics stats

This should be enough to answer everyone's questions about AI content.

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VERY IMPORTANT TO READ!​

I don't have enough time to "invest" in all this (unfortunately [yet]) but as I'm writing at this moment, with AI generated text the potential is huge, it will take a long time, but you need to start it as soon as possible to be among the first in your specific niches.

The quality of the texts is crucial, forget about spamming and other nonsense, with this March update, Google started an all-out fight to remove all spam, there will be huge changes in the ranking, and you need to use it all to your advantage, I repeat once again, the potential is huge.

Put in a year of effort, ideally 2, choose a good niche, don't start where you know you won't pass with new sites, do your homework with a good search for keywords, and start playing with AI tools.

One of the most important things, if you are still around and still reading, don't watch YouTube videos, don't listen to what they say, and don't publish 100s of articles on a new domain that is 12 hours old FFS!!

This is a long-term game, forget about getting things fast, forget about creating 100s of garbage-looking articles, and be honest with yourself, most of you don't know what quality means, or, should I say, you know but it's easier to create 10 articles today by just adding prompt "generate 300 words about how to make money online", and stuff like, you are smarter and better than that!

Also, yeah AI can generate and rank very well but that doesn't mean that you should start with a niche you have no clue about, just because you see "it's a good payout"!

Do what you love, and stop being like many others, talking about "how to make money" when they never made a single cent online, how are you going to help anyone if you don't know what you are talking about?

It's very simple... Do what you know already, and write about things you know, and what you have experienced, results will follow up 100%.

Use ChatGPT, use other tools to make quality articles [2k, 3k, 4k, 5k words, H2, H3, H4], take some time to look around and see what's ranking, what type of content, how it looks, how it's created, structured, learn about SEO optimization, follow what Google is doing [updates are important], use Semrush or Ahrefs for keyword research.

Remember that potential is huge, we are still early in all this!

Top Tip: Do some research in your language for keywords you are looking for in the English language, you'll be surprised by the potential you are missing out on, especially for those having at least some SEO knowledge and those who created at least 1 WordPress sites that got at least 1 click Thank me later.

I'm posting this in My Journey Discussions because I might update this thread from time to time, it all depends on my free time.

You can always make more money but you can't make more time!​

All the best.

 

[YasirKhan1]

I see people asking questions about AI/Webs/Rankings/Indexing every day so I decided to share my own experience so far with 2 of my websites. (You are going to find all the answers you need)

I didn't want to just listen to others, I wanted to test it myself and see first-hand results.

I got the answers to all my questions pretty fast, the 2nd site was doing pretty well back in December and January (because of the niche).

Good AI articles will rank, now the question is, what is your knowledge level and your opinion about your articles, are they good or bad?

The best thing to do is to check the top 5 sites in a niche you want to start building up and see how they write their content, so you can get the picture in your head of "what is good content" and "why they rank".

For this test, I was using just free tools to get ideas about what I was looking for, ChatGPT, Ahrefs, and SemRush, you don't even need paid versions, even tho you can get SemRush for just $6 at the BHW marketplace, ChatGPT $20 (worth every single cent), Ahrefs has been acting weird in the last few months, they are slowly losing my trust (just my 2 cents).

Let me show you.​

These are 2 of my sites that I'm currently testing in 2 different niches, and 2 different languages, testing how keywords and ranking will do after some time, 100% AI work, 100% pages indexed, new one in 24 hours max, AdSense approved, 0 link building, 0 problems.

Both sites are fresh sites, with no history, nothing. (I bought 3rd domain but for now, it's on the "waiting list", published just 4 articles, all indexed)

According to Ahrefs Domain Rating for the first web is 1.3, with 13 backlinks, and 8 do-follows - 2nd site has a 0 Domain Rating, 2 backlinks, and 2 do-follows ( )

Site #1 - Didn't do too much, testing out slowly, very hard niche for starting a new website. (I will add a few words later about why you should NOT start with hard niches)

ahrefs

Slooowly starting to get some traction, added a few new articles in February, a really hard niche for a fresh site, hard-core.

​

Site #2 - Adsense Approved - Most of the articles were created back in October, November, and December last year, I put more effort into this one.

ahrefs
https://snipboard.io/LqoBeZ.jpg

semrush

​

Of course, this is nothing in terms of traffic, anyway, that was not what I was aiming for.

I wanted the answers to simple questions, like:

Do AI generated articles rank?
How powerful they can be?
How will Google react?
Etc...

I was also on Discover for around 40 days.

2nd site Performance - 20 articles published

Image Search

321 queries with at least 1 organic click - Over 3500+ search queries - 0 backlinking

Some Google Analytics stats

This should be enough to answer everyone's questions about AI content.

---

VERY IMPORTANT TO READ!​

I don't have enough time to "invest" in all this (unfortunately [yet]) but as I'm writing at this moment, with AI generated text the potential is huge, it will take a long time, but you need to start it as soon as possible to be among the first in your specific niches.

The quality of the texts is crucial, forget about spamming and other nonsense, with this March update, Google started an all-out fight to remove all spam, there will be huge changes in the ranking, and you need to use it all to your advantage, I repeat once again, the potential is huge.

Put in a year of effort, ideally 2, choose a good niche, don't start where you know you won't pass with new sites, do your homework with a good search for keywords, and start playing with AI tools.

One of the most important things, if you are still around and still reading, don't watch YouTube videos, don't listen to what they say, and don't publish 100s of articles on a new domain that is 12 hours old FFS!!

This is a long-term game, forget about getting things fast, forget about creating 100s of garbage-looking articles, and be honest with yourself, most of you don't know what quality means, or, should I say, you know but it's easier to create 10 articles today by just adding prompt "generate 300 words about how to make money online", and stuff like, you are smarter and better than that!

Also, yeah AI can generate and rank very well but that doesn't mean that you should start with a niche you have no clue about, just because you see "it's a good payout"!

Do what you love, and stop being like many others, talking about "how to make money" when they never made a single cent online, how are you going to help anyone if you don't know what you are talking about?

It's very simple... Do what you know already, and write about things you know, and what you have experienced, results will follow up 100%.

Use ChatGPT, use other tools to make quality articles [2k, 3k, 4k, 5k words, H2, H3, H4], take some time to look around and see what's ranking, what type of content, how it looks, how it's created, structured, learn about SEO optimization, follow what Google is doing [updates are important], use Semrush or Ahrefs for keyword research.

Remember that potential is huge, we are still early in all this!

Top Tip: Do some research in your language for keywords you are looking for in the English language, you'll be surprised by the potential you are missing out on, especially for those having at least some SEO knowledge and those who created at least 1 WordPress sites that got at least 1 click Thank me later.

I'm posting this in My Journey Discussions because I might update this thread from time to time, it all depends on my free time.

You can always make more money but you can't make more time!​

All the best.

@MrDenz

Your research will help us understand the value of time and technology like AI. thank you for your guidelines.

 

[OccultKingdoms]

No bs type of thread. Good.

That's how you start a journey.

Not from ground zero and posting about how you make a site.

 

[zeba]

Top Tip: Do some research in your language for keywords you are looking for in the English language, you'll be surprised by the potential you are missing out on, especially for those having at least some SEO knowledge and those who created at least 1 WordPress sites that got at least 1 click Thank me later.

well, how do you research keyword for polish language?

 

[MrDenz]

well, how do you research keyword for polish language?

Hey @zeba

1 example: Go to https://ahrefs.com/keyword-generator and just choose Poland as a country, and type in the Poland word you want to check.

The same goes for SemRush.

 

[GenesisOne]

The experiment looks promising.
Best of luck op and thanks for sharing.

 

[kalpana007]

So after 40 days, you got removed from discover?

 

[MrDenz]

So after 40 days, you got removed from discover?

Yeah, to be honest, being there for a single day was way beyond my expectations.

The site was just like 30 days old when they picked it up.

Now it's almost 150 days but still, this is also just proving my point about how much people are brainwashed with "high metrics".

I didn't even know what was going on, cause you don't see that traffic in G Analytics, there is a way to set it up but I didn't.

Picked up 3 articles in time, of course, it stopped after some time (reason = type of articles - date in a year - niche).

 

[StampedConcrete]

It's been a few months since the last post. Given the recent updates w/ Google, are your AI sites still ranking? Have you changed your approach on how you write articles?

I found that prompting a few times and pasting that information in, paragraph by paragraph, DID NOT help me rank. Instead, Google seems to refuse to rank my site, even with On-Page, Tier 2 backlinks done.

I think Google is using their own in-house AI detection software to pick out cheap AI generated sites/articles and throttles their rank progression. If so, how would you recommend in constructing articles that leverage AI for text?

 

[elliot_]

It's been a few months since the last post. Given the recent updates w/ Google, are your AI sites still ranking? Have you changed your approach on how you write articles?

I found that prompting a few times and pasting that information in, paragraph by paragraph, DID NOT help me rank. Instead, Google seems to refuse to rank my site, even with On-Page, Tier 2 backlinks done.

I think Google is using their own in-house AI detection software to pick out cheap AI generated sites/articles and throttles their rank progression. If so, how would you recommend in constructing articles that leverage AI for text?

I'd like to know this too.

 

[deepforme]

 

[MrDenz]

I will update this today, and tag you guys again.

It's been a few months since the last post. Given the recent updates w/ Google, are your AI sites still ranking? Have you changed your approach on how you write articles?

I found that prompting a few times and pasting that information in, paragraph by paragraph, DID NOT help me rank. Instead, Google seems to refuse to rank my site, even with On-Page, Tier 2 backlinks done.

I think Google is using their own in-house AI detection software to pick out cheap AI generated sites/articles and throttles their rank progression. If so, how would you recommend in constructing articles that leverage AI for text?

I'd like to know this too.

 

[ceonuz]

I will update this today, and tag you guys again.

I'm waiting too

 

[xprsnw]

Both sites are fresh sites, with no history, nothing. (I bought 3rd domain but for now, it's on the "waiting list", published just 4 articles, all indexed)

Firstly Thank you so much for the detailed experience. Quick question, How did you get the content indexed so fast with just 4 articles?

 

[awesomewebsites]

Which two languages are the site based on and why did you choose those two only ?

 

[Jhonsmm09]

Hey In which niche did you created this ai articles .

 

[MrDenz]

I'm waiting too

I'm sorry everyone, I'm too tired to explain everything the way I want to.

I'll leave this for tomorrow because I don't just want to write some nonsense, I want to post something smart so that everyone can benefit from it, if you understand me.

I will tag everyone, from previous posts and this one tomorrow.

Firstly Thank you so much for the detailed experience. Quick question, How did you get the content indexed so fast with just 4 articles?

It's not easy to explain, I will explain everything in detail tomorrow.

I could just say, 'good quality content', anyway, there are a few things that all of you could use and benefit from those tips, and for that, I need some time to explain everything.

Firstly Thank you so much for the detailed experience. Quick question, How did you get the content indexed so fast with just 4 articles?

Very simply, good content, no spammy links, clear website, normal website, and normal quality articles [will explain in detail tomorrow].

Which two languages are the site based on and why did you choose those two only ?

English and my own [Europe].

Hey In which niche did you created this ai articles .

Cooking, cakes, recipes, how-to, DIY...

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Once again, sorry everyone.

I am not the type of a person who will write and explain everything in 20 words, I do it a little differently because I want to share my knowledge with others.

See you tomorrow with some deep analysis.

 

[madeinheaven2]

So early- I look forward to your update and community updates on this.

Getting me hyped about AI content for my own projects even though I still write organically and by hand- both as a service and for my own projects.

But the potential to create an authoritative and fully immersive site is there. I will take you up on slowly building a foundation of informative content in fields i'm passionate about or know a lot about. I think the potential is fully there to make plenty of money since we're so early and on the inside with BHW and our ears to the AI content streets.

Can't wait! Keep us posted!

 

[xprsnw]

Man you've got us hooked now. Looking forward to your detailed explanation.

See you tomorrow with some deep analysis.

 

[MrDenz]

It's time for an update.

Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time to do this the way I originally wanted, but I certainly got the answers I was looking for, you will get them too, or at least everyone who wants to see them, who doesn't want to, and doesn't believe in SEO, especially Local SEO in 2024, I respect your decision.

So, a few months ago, more precisely at the end of October, if I'm not mistaken, I started testing AI sites, that is, a complete set of AI.

In the first post, I was talking about 3 sites, 1 English and 2 with European languages, the English version got punched in the face [first image down below], so I added 1 more about a month ago, just to test the current situation with the indexing of new sites after all updates, and of course, everything is indexed, views are slowly coming, which I will show you later, everything went well.

Once again, this was a test... Traffic was not my primary goal, my primary goal was to personally explore and understand new possibilities.

Thanks to this approach, I can now share these findings with you:

My key questions were:

• Will Google index AI-generated articles?
• Will Google rank these articles?
• Will these articles be compatible with AdSense?
• What will happen after 4, 5, 6 months?

The answer to all Q's is a resounding YES and articles are still ranking with 0 problems with Google.

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One critical insight I’d like to highlight is the untapped potential in non-English markets.

Regardless of whether you are in Europe, Africa, South America, or Asia, if you’re focusing only on the English market, you’re missing out on significant opportunities in your native language.

Many of us, including myself, have overlooked the potential of our native markets in pursuit of 'global success'.

This is a reminder to:

"Think Globally, Work Locally." - MrDenz

For those with at least a year of REAL experience in SEO and website building, if you’ve ever ranked within the top 5 for keywords with 1,000 to 5,000 searches in English, you possess the skills needed to dominate in your local language.

With a solid plan created, you could achieve remarkable success in just one year.

My advice from the bottom of my heart is to, at least do 30 minutes of local research after you are done reading this boring text, especially in this day and age, take advantage of AI technology and start building local sites!

I urge you to reconsider your strategies.

Search for keywords in your language and you’ll discover numerous opportunities.

For instance, I was astonished to find on my first attempt a keyword with 2 million searches and a Keyword Difficulty (KD) of just 15!

Later, of course, I found plenty of niches where I could get into with no backlinks, $0 investments, just pure quality articles!

This is just one of many examples.

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Now I'm going to show you the results achieved with about forty articles in total on all sites.

These sites target [mostly] 'seasonal niches', so fluctuations are normal.

The largest of these sites hosted 24 articles by the start of this year and I posted around 10 [something like that] after, but the results remain impressive.

For the other 2 websites, I simply didn't have time for any type of extra work as I first thought, but anyway, I got the answers.

I wish I could automate all of this, it would be a valuable tool for everyone, but more on that later...

The spike you are about to see in the picture/s is for the new year, Valentine's Day, and Easter, after Easter, there was a drop, cause, summer days are coming, and no one gives 2 cents about cooking at 40 degrees, and there are no new articles, so the site survives on old ones.

In addition to this, I had 5 social networks, you will see all the statistics of all of them, everything is with maybe 5 posts in the last 2, or 3 months, maybe 1 to 2 posts in that period on social networks but most importantly, results are organic, not a single click and follower is not paid or fake.

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The first image is the English version that got kicked in the ass by Google March update:

Ok, they were pretty clear about it, so I gave up and let that one aside, which makes me sad, it's an amazing domain name But, big G was clear enough...

As promised I will tag all of you asking questions @StampedConcrete @elliot_ @ceonuz @xprsnw @awesomewebsites @Jhonsmm09 @madeinheaven2

6 month results on the main website:

Organic clicks/impressions for top 10 posts

G Analytics

Direct traffic in this case is almost all from Discover on Google, check the next image.

Discover Traffic - From 2nd January 2024 to 19 February 2024

Bing? You are missing a lot!

If you are not on Bing, you are missing a lot, if you have a site with at least 50 views per day, don't wait a moment - Bing Webmaster Tool

This is the difference without me doing anything on Bing in just 1 month, image down is for April, and image up is for May, do your math!

Social Media Stats

Pinterest - Gave the best results in terms of "views"

Facebook [not active group] - YouTube [not active] - Twitter [not active] - All Organic

Instagram 134 followers - TikTok 7 Followers 79 Likes = 1.600+ views [no activity in the last 2, or 3 months]
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New website, 4 test articles in April, I was going for a veeeeery low KD/searches:

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This is the 2nd or the 3rd site from my OP, I'm not sure anymore and it's not that important, no new articles in the last 2, or 3 months:

There are also some social media stats but I'm tired of taking screenshots, to be honest ( :

Now, imagine all this just x100 or x1000?

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Now, the most important thing from everything that I showed up today is, what exactly are you going to take away from this?

1 - You didn't show me anything, this is peanuts, not even serious traffic, you are just a loser.

2 - I was expecting more...

3 - WTF is this?!

4 - Ok, there are some nice points here that I could take and start implementing in my daily working routine.

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My aim was simply to show what's achievable with a couple of hours each day using AI tools. The rest, as they say, is up to you.

Dive into FREE ahrefs, pick your country, and search for those keywords [take a look at a few different industries].

If you've got a bit of experience under your belt, you'll start to see the opportunities I'm talking about.

I may not have displayed millions of views or impressive earnings here, but that wasn't the point.

This was an experiment, not a final showcase.

We're not here to panic over every unindexed post or minor setback.

There is a small process that does not ask much from you but can give you a lot.

You don't need to be too clever when it comes to creating good quality articles in your language, for every 150 - 300 words add 1 image,

Use Canva, Fotor, and even AI pictures pass, you can get Canva here sometimes on BHW.

For Easter, I created an article with 20 AI images, in the middle of the G update, just to see what would happen, directly related to Easter in a text of about 4000 words, I think that page got the most views and it is still ranking pretty well for a bunch of main and related keywords.

As for the ranking itself, I was having at one point around 5 different pages say about 1k to 3,000 monthly searches for a very long time in the first place, without a single backlink, not to mention that I did not build backlinks at all for this test, I was kicking in the ass my competition, they had bunch 10+ years 50+ authority websites and I did with literally 0 authority.

This is where your experience should kick in, once you see what state those websites are, how old their articles are, with no new updates, nothing, of course Google is going to pick up 10+ years of authority web page for the first 10 places over 1000s of spammy pages/websites with 500 words articles where 300 words are long tail keywords, when there is nothing new, just search for it with ahrefs, be my guest!

When you create articles, don't just write prompts "how to make money in 2024" and just copy them into a new blog post, create your own unique process, ChatGPT is $20, and even if you don't have that $20, even the free version can finish the job, if you do it properly, yes!

How do you make good articles?

So, what you want to do is to practically play with ChatGPT!

Engage with your creativity.

ChatGPT, it's like a partner in this journey.

The better you interact with it, the more you'll get out of it.

Start with a solid structure, create one, do your own research, or let AI do the job, and flesh out your piece with as much relevant detail as you can.

Then decorate that article, insert, remove, edit, but just don't copy the first results of the text because you wouldn't read it yourself.

Why would your readers do it for you?

It's not a philosophy, as we humans know how to confuse things and turn simple and easy stuff into passionate and huge problems about simple things.

Once again, search for words in your language, not in English, and you will notice huge holes because, realistically... 90% of us for whom English is not our first language, may have created our first site in our language, but we knew nothing about SEO, and then we jumped on the train to "English Market"!

Not that long ago... I was a part of the agency, and...

Imagine that you have about $3,000 or $90,000 a month to compete with some of the biggest players in the blockchain industry, and you fail.

That's the correct figure you see, $90,000 a month or $4,000,000 over four years, with little to no results!

But well, that's another story, I still claim and I will claim as long as I live that Google/Bing and other SE, they know how to value good articles, H1, H2, H3, H4, FAQ mandatory, images mandatory, always add some "interesting stuff" like "did you know", mandatory, alt image text mandatory, rank images, on-page SEO, off-page SEO, mandatory, text quality, don't overuse keywords in articles, 1 - 2 is more than enough, add the keyword in the title, first paragraph, slug, description, as soon as GSC say "you have problem with this and that", FIX IT!!

So everything that bothers you and you want to do in English, you can do it in your language with 20% of your possibilities, of course, I'm talking about experienced people, and Google will not cause you a problem, and course, don't forget Bing and other SE!

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While I can write for the next 10 days, if you don't believe in yourself, no one will, of course, people will talk crap about how SEO is dead because they lost everything with the latest Google hammer, simply because they were spamming, that has nothing to do with their claim how "SEO is dead", it's easier to say SEO is dead then say "I spammed Google, they didn't like it", SEO is not dead, it's just a question, do you want to play the games by their simple rules or, not.

If you have any type of question, post it here, DO NOT DM ME, whenever I have free time I will answer.

As for the updates for this journey, it all depends on the time, I might do a few more updates just to show you that, it is possible,

Wish you all the best.