Hey everyone, I noticed something interesting recently and wanted to get your thoughts on it. A cheaply made, mass-produced AI (spammy) blog had a dofollow backlink to our site. Initially, I didn't think much of it since the site had zero traffic and used AI-generated images. After about two months, I noticed on Ahrefs that he stopped creating more backlinks to our site (our his AI tool), although we had received 20-30 backlinks from this site before from time to time. When I looked into their SEO data again, I was shocked: in just two months, their traffic shot up to 600k visitors and they ranked for 150k keywords! Here’s the kicker: about a week ago, someone emailed us with an offer to buy our blog. We declined, but then I checked the imprint of the site and found out it was the operator of the spammy blog. He has since bought several small sites with 2-10k monthly traffic and redirected their best articles to his blog using 301 redirects. It seems he also bought a ton of ...