signalPractical Ecommerce2026-09-22
Google Targets Low Effort, not AI
Google's spam policies don't penalize AI content itself, but its quality rater guidelines mention "effort" 120 times, equating low-effort content with commodity content that repurposes existing material without original sources or expertise. A 2023 algorithm leak revealed Google's internal "contentEffort" attribute, which SEO experts believe now factors into ranking. Tools like Eggnite's Content Effort Grader and Shaun Anderson's Gemini/ChatGPT prompt can help assess a page's demonstrated effort level.
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- AI Industry Impact
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score 6 out of 10. 0-10: how dense the facts are, multiplied by how much you can do with them after reading. 8+ means the topic's evidence bar is met: benchmarks and availability for a new model, amount and investors for a funding round, revenue figures for a solo-money story. Below 5 an item does not enter the digest. A press release scores 3 or less, a reprint loses 2, anything older than 14 days loses 1, a headline that misleads loses 3.
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