ChatGPT Traffic Went Missing: Your Thursday Brief
ChatGPT stopped tagging its own links around 9 October, so the traffic it sends you now lands in analytics as direct. Google…
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ChatGPT stopped tagging its own links around 9 October, so the traffic it sends you now lands in analytics as direct. Google…
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A network of about seventy fake local news sites published 8 913 AI written articles, and Anthropic has now banned the tactic…
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New research found 67.66 percent of Google AI Overviews responses link out to a social platform. Google has also added a WhatsApp…
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Google showed its internal timings this week. A new page takes about 20 hours to find, a known page waits roughly 30…
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Google put an AI Overview on up to 90 percent of branded searches through September, so your own company name now returns…
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South African online retail hit R159 billion this year, yet the share of adults who shop online fell to 34.2 percent. OpenAI…
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Google has begun paying some publishers when their pages shape an AI answer, through an invitation only pilot inside Search Console with…
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One account uploaded more than 150 photos to unrelated Google Maps listings, every one carrying the same phone number. Plus 131 specialists…
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Google has quietly made exact and phrase match keywords eligible to serve inside AI Mode, reversing a rule that kept tight keyword…
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Google put Gemini 3.8 Flash into AI Mode this week and the citations disappeared, which Google has now confirmed is a bug.…
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Google Analytics standard reports have shown zero traffic since 1 September, and Google has acknowledged the fault sits in its own reporting…
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In August a bot setting removed an entire government website from Google, and on 15 September that setting becomes the default for…
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