An AI-mass-produced site hit 1M pages, then lost them all

An AI-mass-produced site hit 1M pages, then lost them all

This week on the radar: scaled-content-abuse case studies.

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— Detailed.com — Tracked a site that published ~1,000 AI articles/day, peaked near 1 million indexed URLs and an estimated 500k monthly visits, then lost over 90% of traffic in the March 2024 scaled-content-abuse rollout. Indexing collapsed within weeks.

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— Operators note it wasn't 'AI' that was penalized but the unedited, unhelpful scale; small curated AI-assisted sites were largely untouched.

One to bookmark: the page-count-vs-traffic chart is the resource, showing the index growth and collapse on one timeline.