The SEO Weekly
AI Content vs Human Content - Episode 74
Where queries are weird, advice is controversial, and everything depends.
In this week’s episode, we cover an experiment on AI Content vs. Human Content, insights into Google’s Quality Raters, and diagnosing Javascript SEO issues.
We also discuss semantic keywords, Bard Updates, and SERP Volatilty over the weekend.
Also:
- Screaming Frog Segmentation Update
- Using ChatGPT's Code Interpreter
- Automating SEO
Host: Garrett Sussman | Demand Generation Manager
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Show notes / References:
Google/SERP Updates:
- Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update & Volatility Explodes This Weekend – Barry Schwartz – Search Engine Roundtable
- Confirmed: Google Working On Google News Indexing Issue Impacting All Publishers – Barry Schwartz – Search Engine Roundtable
- English Google SEO office-hours from July 2023 – Google
AI Generation and SEO:
- AI vs Humans – The SEO Content Experiment – Oliver Sisson – Reboot Online
- Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries – Jack Krawczyk – Google
Twitter/LinkedIn:
- How to Use ChatGPT Code Interpreter with GSC – Chris Long
- How to fix your INP errors – Barry Pollard
General SEO:
- I Secretly Worked As A Google Search Quality Rater (You Can Too) – Cyrus Shepard – Zyppy
- Everything We Know About Google’s Quality Raters: Who They Are, What They Do, and What It Means for Your Site If They Visit – Dr. Marie Haynes
- Semantic Keywords: What They Are & How to Find Them – Erika Varagouli – Semrush
- A guide to diagnosing common JavaScript SEO issues – Tory Gray – Search Engine Land
- How market types shape marketing and SEO success – Sara Taher – Search Engine Land
- 5 SEO tasks you can automate to save time and money – Manick Bhan – Wix
Tools/Features:
Rank Tracking: Now with your content relevance score

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