AI browsers disrupt how GA4 records referral data, obscuring traffic sources and discovery patterns. Find out how to track them accurately. Dan Taylor on November 4, 2025 As AI-powered browsers Perplexity Comet and ChatGPT Atlas reshape how users discover and interact with content, their influence is beginning to surface in web analytics. Understanding how … Continue reading How GA4 records traffic from Perplexity Comet and ChatGPT Atlas
AI search is reshaping how audiences find brands, driving fewer but higher-value visits that demand authenticity and reward originality over volume. Constantine von Hoffman on October 2, 2025 AI is changing how audiences find and engage with brands. Clicks may be fewer, but they are arriving later in the funnel, better qualified and far … Continue reading AI search is shifting traffic from volume to value
How To Report On Conversions, Not Just Traffic by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, September 5, 2025 Ryan Jones, marketing manager at SEOTesting in the U.K., has been pushing out valuable insights on LinkedIn during the past few days. “Most SEOs stop at reporting on traffic,” Jones wrote in a post, “but traffic isn’t the business … Continue reading How To Report On Conversions, Not Just Traffic
Brand Websites See Less Traffic, Reddit And Wikipedia Lead ChatGPT Citations by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, August 21, 2025 OpenAI continues to experiment with presenting the most critical information and sources first, as the company weighs the impact of citation on publishers and websites. It’s a shift toward sites that provide answers to queries. … Continue reading Brand Websites See Less Traffic, Reddit And Wikipedia Lead ChatGPT Citations
Google Using Advanced LLMs To Take Down Invalid Traffic by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, August 13, 2025 Advances in large language models (LLMs) are changing the way Google detects and fights against invalid traffic (IVT) and ad fraud in digital advertising that often manifests as clicks and impressions not generated by humans. By leveraging AI … Continue reading Google Advances LLMs To Block, Take Down Invalid Ad Traffic
Who are you going to believe, Google or six LLMs trained on every piece of data on the planet? Constantine von Hoffman on August 11, 2025 Last week, Google published a blog post rebutting claims of declining website traffic from Google Search. “Overall, total organic click volume from Google Search to websites has been … Continue reading Google says web traffic isn’t declining. Google Gemini and five other LLMs disagree.
Get it back with email. Campaign Monitor on August 5, 2025 Have you noticed a dip in your organic traffic lately? You aren’t imagining it. AI-powered search engines, such as Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity, are transforming the way people discover and consume content. Instead of clicking your link, users are getting instant … Continue reading AI ate my traffic by Campaign Monitor
ChatGPT Traffic Referrals To Publishers Rising by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, July 3, 2025 ChatGPT continues to push referral traffic to news publisher sites, but not enough to counter declines in clicks from users who increasingly get news from AI-powered search results, according to a report released this week. Between January 2024 and May … Continue reading ChatGPT Traffic Referrals To Publishers Rising
You likely won’t find one metric to lean on as search transitions to AI-powered answers, but here are 10 to consider. MarTechBot on June 16, 2025 In MarTech’s “MarTechBot explains it all” feature, we pose a question about marketing to our very own MarTechBot, which is trained on the MarTech website archives and has … Continue reading What are the important metrics to watch as organic search traffic evolves?
Sitewide clicks are down, but clicks to homepages are up 10.7%. Your homepages may become even more valuable in AI search experiences. Danny Goodwin on May 23, 2025 Google’s AI Overviews and large language models (LLMs) have severely eroded clicks, click-through rates, and organic traffic to websites. But a new Siege Media report may have found a silver … Continue reading LLMs, AI Overviews may be quietly driving homepage traffic
