B
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3%
3% -- top 100 survival rate for AI-written blog articles (2026)
Only 3% of 2,000 AI-written articles across 20 fresh domains remained in the top 100 search results by month three.
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Value
3%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
2,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Search Engine Land
Primary
Tier C
https://quillly.com/blogs/ai-autoblogging-2026 ↗
Source Article
AI Autoblogging 2026: What Actually Ranks
Picture 2,000 AI-written articles published across 20 fresh domains. Within 36 days, 71% got indexed by Google. Sounds like a win. Then look at month three: only 3% of those pages were still in the top 100. That 16-month experiment from Search Engine Land is the most honest snapshot of AI autobloggi…
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Search Engine Land
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16-month experiment cited from Search Engine Land
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AI-written blog articles: 3% top 100 survival rate. Source: Search Engine Land (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-autoblog-top100-survival-3
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-autoblog-top100-survival-3" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>3%</strong> -- top 100 survival rate for AI-written blog articles<br><small>Source: Search Engine Land (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-autoblog-top100-survival-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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