Developer's 2,300-article AI content site lost 90% of Google traffic in months

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A developer running an automated content site called Startups Españolas published around 2,300 AI-generated articles over 16 months using a Laravel backend with no human editorial oversight. Traffic peaked at 695 clicks in September 2025 before collapsing to just 69 clicks by June 2026, a roughly 90% decline. Google Search Console data showed the site's average ranking position fell from page one back to page three over the same period. Of 1,567 indexed pages that received impressions in a 90-day window, only 147 — about 6% — earned even a single click. The developer attributed the collapse to Google's helpful-content updates penalising thin, near-duplicate machine-written content, concluding that publishing volume hurt rather than helped the site's overall authority.

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