You Ask, I Answer: Does AI Content Rank On Google?

In today's episode, uh cartographer asks, does AI generated content actually rank on Google or is it penalized? Uh the official word from Google, from uh Google search, the Google search team John Mueller and the official Google search guidelines say very clearly we don't care who made the content, it just has to be good. And by good, they mean it fulfills the user's intent. And this is this speaks to the larger role of AI within marketing. If the content you're creating meets the the visitor's intent, it satisfies their intent.

When Google sends uh traffic to you for any reason, although that you obviously that's a separate discussion about how much traffic they send along. But when Google does send you traffic, um if the user doesn't find it satisfying, it doesn't answer their questions, it doesn't help them, then Google says, well, we're gonna deprioritize you because you did not provide a satisfying experience. So that's the official word. Now, if you're using generative AI tools to make crap, and you can make crap faster and cheaper, then you're gonna have a bad experience with Google, right? Google's gonna say, wow, you made a big plan of crap.

And so we're not gonna show you as a reference because what you created does not satisfy the user. We talked about this last week, the week before, about the supply and demand, the economics of content. AI lets you create nearly unlimited supply of content. It in no way increases and in some ways decreases demand for more content. So if we're using AI to just try and create more stuff that nobody asks for, you're not going to get rankings, you're not going to show up in search, you're not going to be seen as a reference.

You have very little chance of being seen as a as a thought leader or an authority in your space, and your metrics such as they are gonna tank. So the official line is it doesn't matter who made the content as long as the content is good. Take this to mean that you have to create better stuff. You don't have to create more stuff, everybody's creating more stuff. But it sucks.

Think about what your audience actually needs. And if you don't know, build an ideal customer profile. And ask your virtual synthetic customer, hey, I want to create some new content. What would help you out the most? For that, tell it be brutally honest.

Be unfiltered, be a little unhinged, maybe, and say, light me up. Tell me, tell me exactly what kind of content that you want, and then what the industry is creating. And see what the delta is. If you've done a good job with your ideal customer profile, it will very clearly say, wow, pretty much everything that everybody creates in this industry is self-centered, is selfish, is bait and switch, is garbage, is low, high high noise to low signal, and doesn't actually answer my questions. Well, because that is the state of marketing generally.

People are creating garbage that nobody wants, that nobody asks for, nobody wants another podcast because we don't we only have 24 hours in a day. We want things that will actually help us, and even better things that we can delegate, maybe even to AI for it to do on our behalf. If you look at the stuff that I make for like Trust Insights of my new AI View application, it's designed, yes, to help the human, but it's also designed for the human to give it to a machine to help me out because I don't have time, I don't have the mental bandwidth, I don't have the skill, help me out. What are you doing to enable the customer? We always talk about buyer sales enablement, right?

Sales enablement, you have sales tools that needs to sell better. What about buyer enablement? What about customer enablement? What tools are we investing in and giving to the customer to let them have a better experience that answers their questions and solves their problems? What are we doing for enablement of the customer as opposed to an enablement of the sales team to sell things to customers that don't want any more stuff from us?

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