Tag Archives: Traffic

LLMs, AI Overviews may be quietly driving homepage traffic

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

How to Update Old Blog Posts for SEO Using AI: Boost Traffic Without Creating New Content

How to Update Old Blog Posts for SEO Using AI: Boost Traffic Without Creating New Content   Brian Hart May 20, 2025     Don’t let valuable content sit idle – reviving old blog posts is one of the most effective (and underused) SEO strategies. Instead of churning out new content nonstop, updating existing posts … Continue reading How to Update Old Blog Posts for SEO Using AI: Boost Traffic Without Creating New Content

Search Traffic Down 10%: What’s Happening And Where It’s Going

Search Traffic Down 10%: What’s Happening And Where It’s Going by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, May 8, 2025 Brands are competing for attention across fragmented landscapes, and those focused on traditional search strategies are losing attention and relevance.   AI, algorithms, and platform changes are being blamed for declining visibility, but the real issue is … Continue reading Search Traffic Down 10%: What’s Happening And Where It’s Going

Google AI Search Tries To Act Like ChatGPT, But Missing Links Will Tank Web Traffic

Google AI Search Tries To Act Like ChatGPT, But Missing Links Will Tank Web Traffic by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, March 25, 2025 Google has expanded access to its AI Mode search beyond Google One AI Premium subscribers in the U.S. The lack of links to businesses will become a challenge for all when … Continue reading Google AI Search Tries To Act Like ChatGPT, But Missing Links Will Tank Web Traffic

ChatGPT growing as a traffic referrer, reshaping search behavior, report says

ChatGPT is sending more traffic to education and tech sites while redefining how users discover and engage with content. Danny Goodwin on February 4, 2025   Education, technology and software development websites are seeing a referral traffic boost from ChatGPT search — and ChatGPT sent more traffic to more than 30,000 unique domains by November. That’s … Continue reading ChatGPT growing as a traffic referrer, reshaping search behavior, report says

AI And Voice Queries Challenging Search Traffic

AI And Voice Queries Challenging Search Traffic by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, December 30, 2024 How can advertisers accurately monitor the incremental impact of media spend and activity on campaign performance if search does not drive traffic? Some advertisers, but not all, have identified that less online referral traffic is being driven from Google Search … Continue reading AI And Voice Queries Challenging Search Traffic

Google AI Overviews Disrupts Ecommerce, Publisher Traffic

Google AI Overviews Disrupts Ecommerce, Publisher Traffic by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 20, 2024 Logging in to a company’s network creates sort of a walled garden, where the data remains within the perimeters, creating checks and balances of intent. Some may not consider Google a walled garden, but when logged in to its … Continue reading Google AI Overviews Disrupts Ecommerce, Publisher Traffic

Google AI Overviews have negligible impact on traffic, say publishers

So far, AI Overviews is not wrecking publishers’ traffic — plus other AI Overviews news. Danny Goodwin on August 19, 2024   Two large publishers, Dotdash Meredith and Ziff Davis, say Google AI Overviews haven’t significantly impacted their traffic. Here’s what the IAC (owner of Dotash) wrote its Q2 2024 shareholder letter: “Google began to roll … Continue reading Google AI Overviews have negligible impact on traffic, say publishers