Artificial Intelligence has already started taking over Jobs across the world in wide numbers around the globe. The automation disaster, has spread fast towards Internet web publishers who have seen over 80% massive drop in website traffic as Big Search Engines like Google favor AI summaries over website links for users to choose, click, and visit for detailed information.
While Google posts increased revenues due to AI enabled Search, Internet website publishers, bloggers and content Creators decry massive losses in traffic, website visits and revenues.
This goes to show the ‘evil benefits’ that comes with AI for small web publishers in terms of increased traffic losses, and revenue losses. For Big Tech Companies such as Google, Meta, Microsoft and others, the gains and positives of Artificial Intelligent automation are massive!
Sadly on the other hand, small website publishers, content creators, and marketers, are witnessing Huge Losses in both web traffic and revenues keep growing on a daily basis.
In this AI Era, Google recently published its AEO optimization guidelines inferring the Creation of high quality content for AEO Search citations. This raises serious questions with regards to “What Content Really Qualifies as High Quality?”.
As the biggest and most widely used Search Engine in world, Google’s policies and practices do not overly reflect those of Sovereign prosperity for Small Businesses, Web Publishers and Companies.
This comes as Google has been struck with several Lawsuits and over $800 Million Dollar Court Verdicts alledging Anti-competitive practices, and other fraudulent practices occasioned and carried out by the Search Engine Google.
Recently, SeedufyTech reported how Nigerian President Bola Tinubu directed the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to investigate Google and major global technology companies over allegations of anti-competitive practices, unlawful use of news content and other activities alleged to be undermining Nigeria’s media industry.
The directive followed a joint petition submitted to the Presidency by the Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO), an umbrella body comprising the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) , the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) , and the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE).
The development was disclosed in a statement issued by the FCCPC’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Ondaje Ijagwu.
According to the statement, the federal government delivered the President’s directive to the commission through a letter signed by the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris.
The petition accused global technology firms, including Meta, Google, X (formerly Twitter), and some Generative AI platforms, of engaging in practices that allegedly distort competition, threatening the economic sustainability of Nigerian media organisations and infringe on the rights of publishers and content creators.
The Commission said its investigation would extend beyond major technology companies to include Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms operating in Nigeria.
The AI scam shows it’s self up, when Big Tech Giants like Google, Amazon, Apple, etc and others, have cumulatively invested over $1.1 Trillion Dollars into AI infrastructure since the start of the current AI boom in 2023. but yet don’t want others to use and enjoy the benefits that comes with AI, for productivity and revenue generation by small businesses, companies, content creators and web Publishers.
Many would agree with me that ” What is good for the geese is also good for the gander ” recently, LinkedIn recently added a new AI Slop button to its platform of over 1.5 Billion users, to report content that feels like AI generated.
This goes to say that LinkedIn is concerned about the use of AI by its professionals, on the platform, however, it’s owners Microsoft has invested over $100 billion in total capital expenditures, infrastructure development, and corporate partnerships to build out its artificial intelligence ecosystem and are actively reaping the benefits that comes with AI automation.
How does Google’s New AEO Policy affect Content Creation and Weakens Creative Thinking?
Google’s recently Introduced AEO policy, favors the scraping of information, off websites of web publishers, whether they consent to AI access robot indexing or not. This means in plain text that Search Engines like Google can capture and index content, from your website to appear as AI search summaries regardless of your consent.
This act by Google, defeats the first purpose of “High Quality Content Creation, Visibility and Marketing” as very few content, gets to appear on user search queries, regardless of their owners consent, quality and content attributes, the AI machine decides what gets seen over what doesn’t get to be seen and I turn favoring Big Tech and Organisations over smaller publishers.
This simply means that web publishers and content creators, are feeding and training Google’s AI systems with hard sought data on a daily basis. These Data in the form of Well researched Content, are then summarized by Google’s AI systems and fed to users as a “Zero Click” AI summary policy.
Atrocities like this, harm Creative Production by small Web Publishers, and Content Creators who spend huge money, dedicate time, and resources to create these high quality content.
Internet web publishers in recent time, has seen over 80% massive drop in website traffic, as Big Search Engines like Google, favor AI summaries over website links for users to click and visit for information.
This means that Search is no longer what it used to be for web publishers, as citations only favor the Capitalist few it deems worthy to cite.
Why Web Publishers, Small Businesses, and Companies should look away towards growing Organic Traffic over Corrupt Laden AEO “Zero Click” Search
Content Creators, Website Publishers, Small Businesses and Organizations, must look towards growing Local Traditional Traffic, through marketing on online forums, and social platforms to grow their numbers.
Consistency is the key to success in this “Corrupt Laden” Artificial Engine Optimization AEO Zero Click era. This means that the quality of your write ups, content and publication should grow your readers and network for you not Google’s citations or recommendations.
Web publishers, Small Businesses and Organizations should deploy active community growing strategies, that includes growing organic numbers, through Social media groups and online Communities.
This the same strategy SeedufyTech as credible online Technology reporting platform has deployed, and it has seen our numbers significantly rise up hitting one 5 Thousand daily Website visits and readers.
Content writers and Web Publishers must urgently look towards methods and ways of growing Organic Traffic and Forget about Corrupt Laden AEO Search era or writing to gain AI citations.
Growing your own Organic Traffic and platform numbers in this AI powered Google Search Engine era is the surest way to web prosperity for publishers and content creators must hurriedly deploy this method for sustainable brand development.
