Google's Scaled Content Abuse Policy: What It Covers and How It Is Enforced
Google's spam rules do not ban AI-generated content. They target scaled content abuse: many pages produced mainly to manipulate search rankings rather than to help users. The policy applies to any site that publishes in volume, and the method of production gives no protection. Pages written by people, by AI or by automation can all breach it.
Origins of the policy
Google introduced the scaled content abuse policy in March 2024. It built on and replaced the earlier policy on spammy automatically generated content. The same update added new sections on expired domain abuse and site reputation abuse.
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Where AI use is acceptable
Google's February 2023 guidance stated that not all use of automation, including AI generation, is spam. It gave sports scores, weather forecasts and transcripts as examples of helpful automated content. The same reasoning applies to templates. Templated pages do not breach the policy in themselves. The risk arises when a template produces near-duplicate pages with little substance specific to each page.
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