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The mysterious SEO guy who linked to us!

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 backlinks.

He probably used a mass AI tool to create the articles, had the AI do web searches with external links, and then contacted all the small, well-ranking blogs via email (which were linked in his articles) with a purchase offer (his company is based in Dubai).

What do you think? Even his top-ranking articles are incredibly crappy. I recently optimized and published one of our articles to see how it performs compared to his...

Would love to hear your thoughts!

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