Worth your time

There is something real in it. It may still carry a wrong number, and the note says so.

The clip

50,000 pages for SEO absolute insanity. #seo #seoaudit #searchengineoptimization #seooptimization

The caption, as Kate Smoothy | SEO Specialist wrote it on TikTok

Posted by Kate Smoothy | SEO Specialist on TikTok, August 31, 2026.

It plays from TikTok, not from here. Nothing loads from them until you press the button, so reading this page sends them nothing.

Why it is graded that way

An audit filmed live: a site published 50,000 AI-written pages and about 130 got indexed. I cannot verify the numbers. They come from a site: search, and the site is not named. But it is what Google’s guidance on mass-produced pages predicts: publish at scale with little to tell one page from the next, and most never make the index. That is why pages here go out in small batches, with the indexed count checked after each one.

Checked against the original clip and, where it makes a factual claim, against whatever that claim leans on. If I have this wrong, tell me and I will fix the row and say what changed.

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