๐Ÿคก The Mediavine Hypocrisy

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For a while now, Iโ€™ve been watching with interest how Mediavine is โ€œhandlingโ€ AI content.

And by โ€œhandling,โ€ I mean accusing site owners of AI content and de-monetizing them with no recourseโ€ฆand being on a crusade to stop AI sites of getting monetized anywhere.

And thatโ€™s why Iโ€™ve been checking a site that was listed for sale last week and then quietly removed from the brokerage site.

More on that in a moment.

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What Not To Do

If youโ€™re selling a site that uses chatGPT to write the content, and youโ€™re monetized on a platform that has gone on a full angry-mob-with-pitchforks-crusade against AI content, maybe donโ€™t list your site for sale with a brokerage that makes all your shit public.

And especially donโ€™t do that if youโ€™re on Mediavine Pro, and your site has a listing price of almost a million dollars.

This should be common sense, right?

Just goes to show that you donโ€™t have to be smart to make money.

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I should take a moment to point out that I am all for AI content that it is good. And I think itโ€™s despicable that Mediavine is going after site owners who use AI content and/or images on their site.

That being said, I do think all the people Mediavine has removed from monetization for using AI would like to have a word with this site ownerโ€ฆ..who is STILL running Mediavine ads on the site.

So, this site - it went out in a standalone email from Motion Invest 7 days ago and it looked like this -

Donโ€™t bother looking for it, cause they took the listing down and now itโ€™s a 404 page.

They also tweeted about the new listing, which is still there.

The Keywordian guy did a break down of the site where he pulled a screenshot from the seller questions where the seller said content came from chatGPT. (he deleted the thread)

If I had a site on Mediavine that had gotten removed for AI usage, then I think Iโ€™d be pretty pissed off right now.

Cause it seems like the people on Mediavine Pro are not getting the same rules applied as everyone else.

Coming upโ€ฆ

Upcoming topics: more tips and ideas on Etsy and KDP, how itโ€™s going with my chatGPT fiction ebook and the AI music thingie, and growing an ecomm site.

If you have a topic you want covered just reply and let me know.

Stay awesome,

Shawna

P.S. If youโ€™re looking for high level discussions or tips on things like local SEO and Rank & Rent, I highly recommend Jacky Chouโ€™s Advise community. Iโ€™ve been in it for several months and thereโ€™s tons of value in it, including a SOP for local SEO.

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