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Google Search's guidance on using generative AI content on your website
Generative AI can be particularly useful when researching a topic, and to add structure to original content. However, using generative AI tools or other similar tools to generate many pages without adding value for users may violate Google's spam policy on scaled content abuse. If you're using generative AI content on your website, make sure your work meets the standards of the Search Essentials and our spam policies.
You might find value in looking at the Search Quality Raters guidelines on how to evaluate both scaled content abuse (section 4.6.5) and main content created with little to no effort, little to no originality, and little to no added value (section 4.6.6). These guidelines are not a guide to ranking first in Google; they're used by our search raters to help evaluate the performance of our various search ranking systems, and their ratings don't directly influence ranking.
Sharing information about how a piece of content was created can help give your readers more context. If you're automatically generating content, consider adding information on how your content was created in a way that makes sense for your audience, such as by providing more background information on how automation was used and adding image metadata.
For ecommerce sites, Google Merchant Center has policies for AI-generated content. In particular, AI-generated images must contain metadata using the IPTC DigitalSourceTypeTrainedAlgorithmicMedia metadata. AI-generated product data such as title and description attributes must be specified separately and labeled as AI-generated.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Missing the information I need","missingTheInformationINeed","thumb-down"],["Too complicated / too many steps","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["Out of date","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["Samples / code issue","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-05-21 UTC."],[],[],null,["Google Search's guidance on using generative AI content on your website\n\n\nGenerative AI can be particularly useful when researching a topic, and to add structure to\noriginal content. However, using generative AI tools or other similar tools to generate many pages\nwithout adding value for users may violate [Google's spam policy on scaled content abuse](/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies#scaled-content).\nIf you're using generative AI content on your website, **make sure your work meets the\nstandards of the [Search Essentials](/search/docs/essentials) and our\n[spam policies](/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies#scaled-content).**\n\n\nYou might find value in looking at the [Search Quality Raters guidelines](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterhub.com/en//searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf)\non how to evaluate both scaled content abuse (section 4.6.5) and main content created with little\nto no effort, little to no originality, and little to no added value (section 4.6.6). These\nguidelines are not a guide to ranking first in Google; they're used by our\n[search raters](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/9281931)\nto help evaluate the performance of our [various search ranking systems](/search/docs/appearance/ranking-systems-guide),\nand their ratings don't directly influence ranking.\n\nFocus on accuracy, quality, and relevance\n\n\nWhen creating content for the web, focus on accuracy, quality, and relevance, especially when\nautomatically generating the content. This includes metadata like [`\u003ctitle\u003e` elements](/search/docs/appearance/title-link),\n[meta description elements](/search/docs/appearance/snippet),\n[structured data](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/intro-structured-data), and\n[alternate texts for images](/tech-writing/accessibility/self-study/write-alt-text),\nwhich can appear in Search results.\n\n\nFor structured data, also ensure compliance with the [general guidelines](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/sd-policies),\nthe specific policies for the individual search features, and [validate the markup](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/sd-policies)\nto ensure eligibility for [Search features](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/search-gallery).\n\nGive users context\n\n\nSharing [information about how a piece of content was created](/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content#how-the-content-was-created)\ncan help give your readers more context. If you're automatically generating content, consider\nadding information on how your content was created in a way that makes sense for your audience,\nsuch as by providing more background information on how automation was used and adding\n[image metadata](/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/image-license-metadata#add-metadata).\n\n\nFor ecommerce sites, Google Merchant Center has [policies for AI-generated content](https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/14743464).\nIn particular, AI-generated images must contain metadata using the IPTC `DigitalSourceType`\n[`TrainedAlgorithmicMedia`](https://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/digitalsourcetype/trainedAlgorithmicMedia)\nmetadata. AI-generated product data such as title and description attributes must be specified\nseparately and labeled as AI-generated.\n\n\nFor more, see our [FAQs in our blog post on AI-generated content](/search/blog/2023/02/google-search-and-ai-content)."]]
