All-AI SEO playbook fails: agency earns zero backlinks from AI content pipeline
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-10-29
Cyrus Shepard shares a telling case: an agency used AI for a visibility study, wrote an AI blog post on an AI-generated website, then ran agentic cold-email outreach—and earned zero backlinks. Lily Ray jokes the whole pipeline probably cost just $100K with today's tools, highlighting how AI content at scale no longer buys SEO links.
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