"We pulled off an SEO heist with AI and stole 3.6M impressions."

Re:"We pulled off an SEO heist with AI and stole 3.6M impres... by jabroni_salad on Monday November 27, 2023 @11:44AM (#38434513)

Did they really "steal" the impressions though? I don't think anyone stops at a content farm, it's just 'oh not this one' and then back to the results to find a better one. Okay, they have gotten an impression from me, but they did not cause my actual destination to lose anything.

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Re:"We pulled off an SEO heist with AI and stole 3.6M impres... by lupire on Monday November 27, 2023 @12:21PM (#38435107)

I saw it happen today.

Someone was discussing on a forum and found a news article about the issue. They posted a link to the article.

But it was a 2010s style "synonym spin" spam site, not the original source of the article. The spam article was obviously garbage to me, but that poster was happy to share it.

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Re:"We pulled off an SEO heist with AI and stole 3.6M impres... by carlosjobim on Monday November 27, 2023 @12:14PM (#38434996)

Notice they're not mentioning any increase in sales or in profit. So it's nothing but worthless spam. I can go to a crowded street and sing in a megaphone until they take me away, and then brag on Twitter that hundreds of people wanted to listen to my new song.

Impressions / likes / thumbs up have exactly 0.00c business value. It's only sales that matter, nothing else.

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