r/SEOorganic

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Something I find interesting is that your business competitors and your SEO competitors aren't necessarily the same.

Let's say you sell accounting software.
Your obvious competitors are other accounting software companies.
But for a search like:
Imagine "How to calculate VAT"
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your SEO competitors might be:
• An accounting blog
• A government website
• A financial publication
• A completely different SaaS company
• An individual expert

They are competing with you for the same searcher, even though they aren't competing with you commercially.
So maybe there are actually two questions:
Who competes with my business?
vs.
Who competes with me for search visibility?
How do you discover the second group?
Do you already have a process for finding unexpected SEO competitors?

I’ve been testing AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc. for content creation, and I’m curious about something I keep seeing debated in the SEO community.

Can fully AI-generated articles actually rank well on Google?

I know Google has said that AI-generated content isn’t automatically against its guidelines. From what I understand, the bigger concern is whether the content is genuinely helpful, original, accurate, and created for users rather than simply produced to manipulate search rankings.

But I’d really like to hear from people who are actually running websites and have tested this themselves.

Have you published AI-generated or AI-assisted articles that eventually ranked on Google?

If yes, which approach did you use?

Published the AI article with only minor editing?

Heavily edited or completely rewritten it?

Added your own experience and opinions?

Added original research, examples, statistics or case studies?

Added original images/screenshots?

Used AI only for research and outlines, then wrote the article yourself?

Something else?

And if the content ranked, how competitive was the keyword and how long did it take to start ranking?

I’m especially interested in actual experiences from website owners, bloggers, affiliate sites and SEO professionals.

Not really looking for the usual “Google hates AI content” vs “AI content ranks perfectly” debate.

I’d love to hear real examples, results, traffic changes and what you actually did.

What has worked for you?

So I'm Krishna and I work on SEO and GEO most of the time. I've started a platform that does SEO and GEO audits. It checks your website and Google Business Profile, and it also checks whether the business is getting recommended by AI.

I built this myself, and it's not like other audit tools that just run bots. On this platform, me and other SEO experts personally run each audit in detail, then email you the complete PDF showing what issues are holding the website and business back.

The audit is 100% free, no charges. But if someone wants these issues fixed and can't do it themselves, we have packages that will help.

It's just launched, so I'd like some feedback from the SEO and business community. The platform is called Orbitseen, have a look at the site and let me know what you think.

Competitor analysis usually happens like this:
Imagine "Let's analyze our competitors."
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You do the research, create a report, look at their keywords, backlinks, content, etc.
Then a few months later, you do it again.
But competitors are changing every week.
New pages.
Lost pages.
New backlinks.
Lost backlinks.
Ranking changes.
New topics.
Updated content.
New products.
So I'm wondering if the more useful question is:
Imagine "What changed since the last time I looked?"
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If you could get only 3 competitor alerts every week, what would you want them to be?
I'd probably choose:
1. Major ranking changes
2. New pages/content
3. Important backlinks gained or lost

But I'm curious what other SEOs would choose.