Category: News publisher

The first systematic analysis of Google’s invitation-only enhanced publisher profiles on Discover, based on monitoring 46,926 publishers.

AI fetcher bots siphon traffic and revenue from publishers, delivering real-time answers that bypass your site and cut referral visits.

Google Search pageviews fell 34% year over year and Discover dropped 15%, as ChatGPT referrals rose 200% but remained under 1% of traffic.

Publishers are losing Google organic search traffic, but breaking news traffic jumped 103% and Discover clicks are surging.

AI answers are taking clicks from publishers. Media companies warn that Google Overviews and chat experiences are speeding up traffic loss.

Reddit debuts Pro tools to help publishers track stories, auto-import content, and tap into communities as referral traffic shifts.

I read the news today, oh boy. AI search engines give wrong answers 60% of the time and often cite fabricated or broken URLs.

AI bot scraping doubled from Q3 to Q4 of 2024. But the click-through rates from AI search remain abysmal – at less than 1%

This comes after Google announced in April 2024 that Publisher Center will stop allowing you to add publications manually.

Instead, Google will automatically add eligible publishers and will eventually remove those publishers not eligible.