Google Search Console now provides dedicated reports for AI Overviews and AI Mode, but the figures have limitations. Here is what small business owners should know before drawing conclusions from AI search impressions and positions.
A useful, credible website gives you the best chance of doing that, whether somebody finds you through Google, ChatGPT, a recommendation or a good old-fashioned search for your business name.
Google’s latest spam update appears to have hit websites using mass-produced, search-focused AI content. Find out why AI itself is not the problem, what Google is looking for instead, and how to keep your small business website focused on useful, people-first content.
You may have noticed a small punctuation mark getting a lot of attention lately: the em dash. Some people now treat one as a sure sign that a piece of writing came from AI. It is not. It is just punctuation doing a job.
More visitors are arriving at your website from ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and other AI tools. That sounds like good news. Someone asked a question, an AI recommended your business, and they clicked through. But there’s a problem. Most of that traffic isn’t landing where it should. And if you don’t know this is happening, you’re losing customers who were already sold on you before they even arrived.
It’s been a busy week on Client Connect. There’s a brand new Website Security area, proper charts behind Site Health, three features graduating out of beta, and a handful of fixes to things that weren’t behaving themselves.
