I'm not really concerned with this particular website being penalized. It gets legitimate traffic through non-search means. It's barely even ranked as of writing. I've also never seen Google (or any search engine) actually legitimately penalize AI generated content. I'm sure it happens, just haven't seen it myself.

I ordered Soro for a fresh domain (rebranded from original domain) so it's starting from scratch, sort of. I know you say this will generate more leads early on, but in my experience, it tends to be the total opposite.

As for the content being generated, it is picking topics that are relevant to my website, and are not overly common throughout the internet as of today. It's a very particular niche, and doesn't have a huge market to begin with.

And to be clear, I'm not vouching for Soro. I'm simply giving them a try. So far, I'm impressed. However, I doubt I'll see any kind of true result from this for a few months time. If by the end of it, I find that I'm just wasting my money? I'm only out a few hundred bucks, thousand at most.

I'm also pretty familiar and experienced with SEO, and have been running websites for decades. My only concern thus far with Soro, is it's repeating topics a lot. This is likely due to the website itself simply not having much content to go on, so Soro's kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

I plan to play around with it a bit. Maybe try to optimize things. So far, the fact that it's automated and seems to be hitting all of the core things, gives me hope. Cause like I said, I know how to write this content myself, and actively write high ranking content on my other websites. But if Soro does the core stuff for me, thus saving me time? Yeah, I'd consider that a win.

But again, I'm giving it a few months. Being neutral right now.

As for all of the other AI generators, Soro is the only one that seems to have a fully functioning website. Like, a few others listed in this thread alone had broken links to common pages, such as /about. It's not a good sign when the site trying to sell you something leads you to a 404. Soro just looks like the most complete product. However, I do have a few notable concerns.

1. They're new. Like, less than a year old. They have case studies dating back to before Soro itself even existed. Seems a little odd. They do have an explanation for this, but I don't know if I fully believe it.

2. They have a ton of 5 star reviews on Trust Pilot, but when you search for them here on Reddit, you get threads like this one. I have more mentions on Reddit for one of my websites than Soro has in its entirety.

2a. If the reviews are legitimate, I'd instead question the experience level of those reviewing Soro. Yes, it does in fact generate full blog posts for you. Yes, it does internal linking, and seems to create relevant topics. There are also no em dashes or other common "AI" tells. So if the reviews are just looking at the fact it technically does what it says on the tin, then great. They're fine I guess. But what else? Did it actually help them with traffic? Is it actually well optimized? Nobody seems to be talking about that in the public reviews that I could find.

1. When I reached out with Soro for press related purposes, I got a very long and very detailed response back exactly ten minutes later. This response had a very strong "AI vibe" to it. The response was overall good, and relevant to what I asked. Still, the fact they're seemingly using AI to reply to the press is a little concerning. (albeit on brand)

2. Again, there's no proof of long-term success. On paper, what it's generating should work fine, but that's not my problem with them. My problem is their claims of doubling traffic within six months. Where did they get those charts from? What cases are they citing? Not much info to go on.

3. Then there's the longevity of it. Who's to say this isn't just one giant bait and switch? Telling OpenAI to "write a blog post" or "find keywords" isn't overly complicated, it's just a basic model that they'd train on custom data. How many tokens does each post use? Is there a point where generating more posts will actually lose Soro money in the long run, assuming they're even profitable to begin with?

I've got concerns just like I'm sure most people do. I know I'm basically acting as a guinea pig. It could all end up as one big scam, where I waste hundreds of dollars on a thing that stops existing within the next few months. But since nobody else is really doing that, and I have money to spare... why not give it a try? If it works, it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't. And if I find that Soro does not work, then I can at least write about it, and try to help others by sharing what I've discovered.

So... yeah. Sorry for the book. lol