Google: Human Written Content Doesn't Necessarily Make The Content Useful Or Helpful

Oct 28, 2022 - 7:51 am 4 by

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Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that just because a piece of content is written by a human, it does not make that content necessarily helpful and good content. Having a human write content won't guarantee the content ranks well in Google Search.

John said, "Just because something is human-written doesn't make it helpful & good content." Instead, John suggested that you "focus on making things awesome, unique, compelling, that people recommend to friends - not just something that's technically ok."

Here are those tweets:

So can you have machines write your content? Well, John did not directly say yes or no:

How does one define helpful or good content?

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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