AI content accuracy
Google guidance requiring manual fact-checking and review of AI-generated content before publishing. Every SEO Weekly story on AI content accuracy, newest first. 6 stories since October 2026.
- Naming the author gets your page quoted more by AI
A study of nearly 12,000 prompts found that pages with a named, credentialed author were quoted far more often than anonymous ones.
- Wikipedia and news sites win most Gemini citations
A large look at how Google's AI assistant picks the sources it credits.
- Google wants your user content, with no traffic promised
A new Google program takes reviews, comments and forum posts straight from sites, and two SEOs say the payoff for those sites is unclear.
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- Claude searches the web when its facts get old
Anthropic's newest Claude model stops at June 2026, so anything you changed since then has to be findable online.
- Google scores pages on effort, and effort is not hours
Cyrus Shepard says Google looks for proof of useful work on the finished page, not the hours behind it.
- Google calls hand-checking AI writing "critical"
Three well known SEOs have now pointed at the same line in Google's refreshed AI content guidance.
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