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A panel of SEO professionals at WordCamp Europe recently discussed how AI is changing search and what businesses should do to remain visible. While they sometimes disagreed about whether AI changes SEO or if this is just another stage of its evolution, they largely agreed that success increasingly depends on four key fundamentals that are […]
Google has published documentation for a native link between Google Business Profile and Google Analytics, bringing local metrics like calls and direction requests into Analytics reports. The link may not appear in every Analytics account yet. What Shows Up In Analytics Once a profile is linked, a Google Business Profile section appears in your reports. […]
“Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” said Obi-Wan Kenobi. It came back to me this week when I read a LinkedIn post from Rand Fishkin, which opened with a sentence I’ve never seen him write before: “I almost never write blog posts anymore, but this one […]
Last week, I read Giulia Panozzo’s article about rethinking audience targeting in a signal-loss era. I also read Harry Clarkson-Bennett’s article about creating non-commodity content. And then I read Matt G. Southern’s article about Google’s new AI search guide officially calls AEO and GEO “still SEO.” Reading them together, I kept hearing the same message: […]
Do you know who your audience is and what they want? Over the last 20 years or so, we used to rely almost purely on data to answer that question. But as cookie tracking and user signals declined and analytics shifted toward sampling (what we refer to as the “signal-loss era”), we’ve lost some of […]
Welcome to this week’s Pulse. The updates affect how you measure AI assistant traffic, what structured data does for visibility, and how a major publisher is planning for life after search. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Analytics Adds Native AI Assistant Channel Google Analytics now assigns traffic from recognized AI chatbots […]
Google Analytics added an “AI Assistant” default channel group for traffic from recognized AI chatbot referrers, with Google naming ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude as examples. GA4 property owners no longer need to build custom channel groups with regex patterns to separate AI assistant visits from referrals. Until now, all AI chatbot traffic landed in the […]
If your organic traffic is down but your pipeline looks fine, you’re not imagining it. AI-generated answers are intercepting the journey earlier, meaning users are getting what they need from a citation or a recommendation before they ever hit your site. The click never happens. But the influence did. That’s the measurement problem most marketing […]
The sign on AI-referred traffic conversion flipped. I’m not sure if enough of us have noticed. Twelve months ago, visitors arriving at U.S. retailers from AI assistants converted at roughly half the rate of visitors from other channels. In March 2026, they converted 42% better. Same channel. Same stores. Different year. Adobe Analytics published the […]
Google Ads published new reporting data retention limits that change how long advertisers can access historical performance data through the interface and APIs. The update offers some clarity about which reporting periods will remain available and what advertisers may need to preserve on their own. Google Ads Reporting Data Availability Google Ads reporting data will […]