30/09/2026
Why using AI products to write website content is a bad idea.
Minimising duplicate content has always been the number 1 rule in SEO, and it still is today.
When preparing website content, it’s hard to resist putting a few prompts into AI platforms like Claude, Perplexity or ChatGPT and ask the agents to write all of the website content. Sure, this is an easy way of being able to give you back 1,000 words for each page of your website. But where does AI get these words from?
AI is not a creative. It doesn’t come up with new ideas. Instead, it bases what it thinks it knows on other websites on the internet. While this is a simple process for getting content for your new website, it’s actually just regurgitating content it has found elsewhere.
All of a sudden, every building company or accountant on the internet will have much the same wording on their website. This is problematic because when Google (and other search engines) crawl through a website, they compute an overall score of the website and use this score to determine whether best SEO practice is being used. If they pick up on duplicate content being displayed, and they will if AI was used to write the website, they will discount the total score. This will then impact on the search engine ranking in a very negative way.
In a world where AI is used so much, it is becoming increasingly easier to spot both artwork and content that hasn’t been produced by a human. And that’s for us to see, imagine how much the AI agents can see and how fast they can evaluate if a website is produced with AI content.
Allcorp, as a creative agency, believe that AI certainly has a place, but it shouldn’t be used to do everything. It is a tool that can speed up many aspects of our normal routine, but it will never be able to create and it shouldn’t be relied upon to do so.
So where do we get all of the wording for our website projects? Simple. We write it. Every website package from us has professional copywriting as standard. And we’ve been providing copywriting with our website projects for almost 27 years.
While we’ve noticed that, ironically, many agencies and freelance website designers have resorted to using AI to do their creative work, this shouldn’t be normal practice. If the duplicate content issue doesn’t convince you of the dangers of using it for website copy, surely having a website presence that says the same thing and looks the same as your competitors’ websites is something you wouldn’t want either.