w4mmaps

Been doing SEO on my websites for the past year, taking care to acquire quality relevant links, quality handwritten content, and I would be the first to preach that you "can't trick google" anymore because they are too smart. I really believed that....until last night.

Using ahrefs I've taken a close look at some new sites (which are younger then mine and only created in 2021) which are beating me in the rankings and holding top positions for target keywords. We are talking lower to mid competition keywords, nothing intense. With their backlinks checker, I've discovered these sites have similar 100% spam backlink profiles which is clearly done with software. The kinda links you would expect to hurt your site. Just scrolling through their backlinks is a nightmare on display. Nothing legit, nothing good, lots of spun content sites and blatent spam.

Then on the websites themselves, we're talking purely auto generated AI content.... and the sites on-site SEO is nothing special or better then mine. What I am witnessing first hand is that because these sites have a much bigger VOLUME of backlinks and content then me, it's ranking them higher. Not to say these are good long term tactics, but I thought we were wayyyy past these kinda tactics successfully ranking websites... I am shocked. Shocked I tell you!