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23% -- share of teams creating content without ai for SEO content teams (2026-04)
23% of content teams reported creating content entirely without AI involvement.
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2026-04
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60
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20
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30
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95
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Semrush
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https://dmidigitalmarketing.com/human-content-8x-more-likely-to-rank-1-than-ai-semrush-study-finds/ ↗
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Human Content 8x More Likely to Rank #1 Than AI, Semrush Study Finds -
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ToggleHuman-written content is eight times more likely to rank at Position 1 on Google than AI-generated content, according to a new Semrush study analyzing 42,000 blog posts.
The research, published in April 2026, found that content classified as human-written carries an 80% probabi…
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SEO content teams: 23% share of teams creating content without ai. Source: Semrush (2026-04). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/teams-no-ai-content-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/teams-no-ai-content-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>23%</strong> -- share of teams creating content without ai for SEO content teams<br><small>Source: Semrush (2026-04) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/teams-no-ai-content-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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