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Google’s John Mueller had another one-liner – this one was published Twitter<\/a> and says, “Programmatic SEO is often a fancy banner for spam.”<\/p>\n The context is that Lily Ray noticed that “dozens of sites” are using “programmatic SEO” by “scraping and reusing data from other sites to create a large number of hyper-specific landing pages about songs, maps, schools, pets” , he wrote. Yes, we all see that these things often rank well in Google.<\/p>\n Well, Google’s John Mueller called it spam.<\/p>\n Here are those tweets:<\/p>\n I love fire, but also programmatic SEO is often a fancy banner for spam.<\/p>\n \u2014 John Mueller (Official) \u00b7 No #30D (@JohnMu) July 25, 2023<\/a> <\/p>\n To be fair, programmatic SEO isn’t always spam, but hey:<\/p>\n Forever the optimist.<\/p>\n \u2014 John Mueller (Official) \u00b7 No #30D (@JohnMu) July 25, 2023<\/a> <\/p>\n Why does John call this spam? Well, coding is basically used to generate automated content from various sources to create pages automatically. Is this spam? Well, I think Google defines it as spam and so do many of you.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, these things, when done right, rank well in Google Search.<\/p>\n Discussion in the forum a Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t