What is the definition of cheating ?
Who created this definition of cheating, and why?
One does need to think deeply about this, then consider
#EEAT or Experience, Expertise, Authority and Trust
Your
#EEATscore is important, so be weary of how you approach conversation issues
April 2012.
I woke up and every money site I had was gone.
I couldn’t believe my eyes.
Back in 2010 there was this cool network/tool…
You’d write one article, spin 100s of versions, and submit them to a network of “partner sites.”
Your content would autopost on theirs, and theirs on yours.
Free backlinks, free content… all for $97/month.
We thought we’d hacked SEO.
Don't get me wrong, the sites ranked and we made a lot of sales.
We also used a host of other tools to build backlinks and spin up content.
SENuke
BuildMyRank
ALN
GSA
UAW
Magic Submitter
Ninja Warrior
etc. etc. etc.
A wild time. A gold rush! and everything worked.
Until Google dropped Penguin and nuked it all overnight.
To all the founders buying into the new AI-SEO hype —
auto-posting “AI blogs,” joining link networks, or buying 1,000s of AI backlinks for $19...
trying to rank in LLMs while killing your Google trust...
Be careful.
There’s a real place for AI in SEO workflows — content, data, backlinks, even GEO.
But the way many “AI SEO agencies” are doing it will wreck a lot of businesses before the next big update does.