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Why Google and Your Audience Hate Your AI Content & The Five Step Framework to Turn It Around | Ep. 118

• Darcy Sullivan • Episode 118

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Struggling with AI-generated content for your healthcare practice? You're not alone. Google isn't against AI content—it's against lazy implementation that lacks the human touch patients need when making healthcare decisions.

This episode tackles the critical balance between leveraging AI's efficiency and maintaining the authenticity your patients demand. We dive deep into the three specific red flags that trigger Google penalties. 

The heart of this discussion is our practical HUMAN framework—a five-step process transforming robotic drafts into content that resonates with both search engines and patients. We walk through each step with real examples.

🎉Episode Website & Shownotes (includes HUMAN framework) - https://propelyourcompany.com/generic-ai-copy-tanking-your-clinics-rankings/

Ready to fix your existing AI content without starting from scratch? 

We provide actionable steps you can implement immediately, taking just 10-15 minutes per post. 

🎉Episode Website & Shownotes (includes HUMAN framework) - https://propelyourcompany.com/generic-ai-copy-tanking-your-clinics-rankings/

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Hey there, it's Darcy Sullivan from Propel Marketing and Design and you're listening to the Clinic Marketing Podcast with bite-sized strategies to grow your clinic's visibility online and book more new patients. Today we're tackling a hot topic AI-generated content. Generative tools are incredible time-savers, but if you copy and paste drafts straight to your website, you can actually hurt your rankings and trust. In this short episode, you'll learn why Google flags low-quality AI content, why patients can sense the roboticness of the writing and will bounce away from your website, leaving your website as soon as they get there, and five steps you can take to humanize AI drafts you already have without burning through hours and hours of time. So grab a cup of coffee, protein shake or a glass of wine and let's dive in.

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Officially, there's nothing in Google's guidelines that bans AI outright. What Google hates is scaled, unoriginal or unhelpful content. Here are three red flags that Google will perceive if you use AI in the wrong way Lack of E-E-A-T that's, experience, expertise, authority and trust. If your article or webpage reads like a Wikipedia matchup, with no first-hand perspective, google downgrades it. Health topics are especially sensitive because of the effects of well-being on people. That's red flag one. Red flag two is duplicate language and patterns. I don't know how much you've played around with AI tools like ChatGPT, but you'll often sense this fingerprint type spammish repetitiveness. We see this all the time. Let's say, a chiropractor goes to an AI tool and asks it just flat out to write a blog post about how chiropractic care can help with neck pain, and it spits out something very vague and generic. And then they ask very vague and generic. And then they ask how can chiropractic care help with back pain? And all it does is take the neck pain word out and sub it in for back pain and it's very similar, very generic and very repetitive, without any value add at all. And that's a major red flag you add at all, and that's a major red flag.

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Red flag three scaled content abuse. This is when people go in and they publish like a hundred nearly identical posts like chiropractic care in city A, chiropractic care in city B, chiropractic care in City C. It triggers the latest spam policy and you really want to avoid that. I really hope nobody listening has tried that. If so, please, please, please, do not do that.

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Here's a big takeaway from this AI itself is not the problem. Lazy implementation of AI is the problem, and it's not just Google that hates this lazy AI content. It's your potential patients as well. People can spot this robot text within seconds. The three normal turnoffs are it doesn't showcase any empathy, the content is just so bland and generic and there are subtle inaccuracies. These all leave prospective patients abandoning your website and going to your competition. That is not what you want. So I'm not saying ditch AI, but in fact, I am about to give you the five-step framework for taking any of the AI garbage that you've already put on your website and cleaning it up. I hope you're ready for this. So this is the five-step human checklist that you can go through with the content you've already created, that you have that you used AI for, and it's human. Because we're going to go through the letters H-U-M-A-N. We're going to start with H, so H.

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The action is hone the brief. What does this mean? Feed? The tool specifics your targeted keyword, your patient persona, your clinic's voice, your preferred length, your clinic's voice, your preferred length. You Use your experience.

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Again, AI can be very bland. You need to insert first-hand case examples, landmarks or seasonal issues when appropriate. A Audit for accuracy and voice. Fact. Check the stats. Remove any medical jargon that just makes it sound like a medical report. You want to make sure that you put yourself in the head of your reader and that you read it out loud and it speaks the way that you consult N nurture trust signals. You can do this by adding an author bio credentials, citing your sources, updating your content and including an invitation to book. So, again, that is human, h-u-m-a-n. And spending 10 to 15 minutes going through some of your old posts whether they were dedicated or driven by AI or you just have some stale old posts this is a great way to give them new life.

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Now we're going to walk through a demo, but I do want to mention that you can visit the episode webpage where you can look at this in detail in case you forget what was human again. But let's walk through a quick demo. And again, I do not suggest that you rely solely on AI. Suggest that you rely solely on AI Full stop. Do not just use AI. But if you are going to use this tool, we want to make sure that you humanize it. So let's go through an example. A bad example would be to go to AI or an AI tool and say write an 800-word blog post about the benefits of cupping therapy. It's going to spit you out something raw and not related to your business and it's going to talk about cupping therapy improves circulation. In conclusion, cupping therapy is beneficial, blah, blah, blah. Therapy is beneficial, blah, blah, blah.

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Okay, now let's humanize it, taking that human H-U-M-A-N framework and tweak it. You can tweak the prompt and tell AI focus on athletes with shoulder pain, mention we're in Austin, texas, write it in an encouraging tone. Four, three subheaders, and maybe you give it some additional key bullet points that you want to include and you want to give it as much information as possible. So that's h home. Now I do want to mention that we have an episode on the proper way to form a blog post. It's the anatomy of a blog post, and we'll include it in the show notes One of my favorite episodes, I have to say, because I noticed that a lot of AI-produced content doesn't flow the way that you would necessarily want a post to flow from an SEO standpoint. So you should probably listen to that episode too and give it some directive on the flow that you want for a specific blog post, and that's another reason that we like using blog post templates. There was a blog post template episode we did too. I'll include that in the show notes. That's a good one, but let's keep going. So we did H, which was hone U, which is use your expertise. Then in this, you would want to add real notes. Like our sports chiropractic care office sees five to 10 CrossFit athletes weekly for cupping Something that brings it to make it sound like it's not just AI driven, that it actually relates to you M.

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Make it local that there is a specific event that people come in before they're prepping for a. I don't know, maybe it's a triathlon that's specific to your area. Make it local A audit, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely audit and maybe audit it a couple times. You can go back and forth with AI more than once. I suggest you never accept the first version that AI supplies you. So for A, you're going to audit. Replace stupid stuff like in conclusion, and instead this is one thing that we mention when we talk about the way to tie up and wrap up an email blast is to have a friendly CTA call to action at the end. But you want to read through it. You want to make any edits that make it feel more like your voice and really read through it. Give AI feedback. Never take what it just spits out at you and then N nurture. You can add the bio of the person that wrote it. If somebody assisted in writing it, you can add references or articles that are mentioned in it and again you can use that book. Now the final post should really feel personal and accurate and specific to you in your area.

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There are additional quick fixes you can do too. Always run it through a grammar checker. We love Grammarly and I'll include that link in the show notes as well. It's a free tool and it's amazing. It'll help you clean up the wording and it's good to use a second source. So if you're using one AI source, then you can use something else. You can also rerun it through AI. Let's say that you've gone through the whole human five-step process. You've edited it directly. Then you can say to the AI tool that you're using paste it back in and say clean this up and check it for any grammatical errors. You can layer in FAQs when it makes sense. Google loves structured questions and answers and patients love them as well, so you can add those in again when it makes sense.

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Don't just do it because I said that it's a good thing to do If it makes sense with that piece of content. Consider doing it. Consider using photos that are authentic to your brand Maybe they're shots from around your clinic versus just a generic stock photo. And if you are using stock photos we've talked about this many times before make sure that you have the permission to use that stock photo. Make sure that it's not the exact same stock photo that you see everywhere. Try to come up with something that's a little bit different.

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You want to use internal links, so let's just say you're talking, we'll go back to that cupping example. You would want to link to your service page about cupping, because you're talking about cupping, now it doesn't stop there. You also then want to track your results, to see if you are on track and if these changes that you've made to your AI content is improving it. And how do we do that? Well, we want to go through and make sure that you have Google Analytics set up on your website and you can see what happens. Are you seeing improvement from that blog post that you had written solely from AI? Now that you've gone through the process and cleaned it up, what is happening after 30 days? Are you getting more calls, more bookings, more clicks? Do people seem to be interested in the content and if numbers improve, then you're human and it's worked.

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So here are some action steps you can take this week. One identify the content that was just slapped on your website using AI tools. Run each of these things through that human checklist. Republish, if it's a blog post with a new date, the updated date, and share one of the updated articles in your Google business profile right under your Google post. Also, share it on social media. See if it gets more traction and set a calendar reminder to review the metrics in about a month. See what's happening. See if your traffic has improved to that specific page or post because of these human improvements you've made.

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Ai can be your fastest writing assistant, but it doesn't mean it's your best. You have to check for credibility. Use it wisely, polish, with the human framework we talked about, and both Google and your patients will reward you. In the episode webpage and show notes, you'll find a copy of that human framework we talked about, along with tons of other resources. Thanks for joining me on this episode of the Clinic Marketing Podcast. If this episode cleared up some AI confusion for you, please do share it with a colleague or drop us a line, don't forget to subscribe to the podcast Until next time. Keep tracking your actions and I'll talk to you soon.

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