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AI-Written Content and Google in 2026: What Scaled Content Abuse Means, and How We Publish

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October 25, 2026

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Google's spam policies do not ban AI-written content. They ban many pages made mainly to rank, by any method. What scaled content abuse, site reputation abuse and expired domain abuse cover, and the process we use to publish a lot without publishing junk.

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Google's position has been consistent: it cares whether content helps people, not how it was produced. Its spam policies define scaled content abuse as many pages generated mainly to manipulate rankings rather than help users, and name generative AI used to produce many pages without adding value as one example. Scraping, rewriting with automation and spreading thin content across sites are others.

The three policies that catch AI-heavy sites

Policy

What it covers

The test

Scaled content abuse

Many pages produced mainly to rank, by people, automation or AI

Would the page exist if search did not?

Site reputation abuse

Third-party content published on a host site mainly to borrow its ranking signals

Is the host closely involved in the content, or renting out its domain?

Expired domain abuse

Buying an expired domain to host low-value content on its old reputation

Does the content relate to what the domain was?

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How we publish

This site publishes a lot, and AI helps write it. The rules we hold to:

  1. Every fact comes from a primary source: vendor documentation, pricing pages, release notes, regulators. Not from other blogs or model memory.

  2. Every page answers a question a real customer has asked us or a decision we have helped someone make.

  3. Numbers are checked against the source on the day of publishing, and pages carry the date they were last checked.

  4. Opinion is labelled as ours and is based on work we have done.

  5. When a fact changes (a price, a deadline, a retirement) we update the page instead of publishing a new one.

  6. Nothing is published that we would not send to a client.

What actually ranks now

  • Specifics a generic page cannot have: exact prices, dates, limits and worked examples.

  • Clear recommendations with the reasons, including when the answer is "it depends" and on what.

  • Pages kept current. A comparison updated last month beats a better-written one from 2024.

  • Structured, fast, server-rendered HTML that both search crawlers and AI assistants can read without running JavaScript.

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