Google AI Impressions Are Not AI Traffic: Reconcile Search Console With GA4
Reconcile Google AI impressions with arrivals and GA4 sessions without treating visibility, clicks, browser requests, analytics, and outcomes as matching totals.
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Crawling, content, and measurement
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AEO & AI Search
Answers, citations, and visibility
Platform changes, retrieval behavior, source attribution, and measurement without unsupported promises.
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Crawled Isn’t Indexed: A Large-Ecommerce Indexation Workflow
Define the indexable product set, segment outcomes by template and reason, close faceted crawl traps, and improve selection signals before requesting more crawling.
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Organic Traffic Dropped While GA4 Filled With Ghost Spam: A Two-System Diagnosis
Separate a real Google Search decline from GA4 referral noise with one incident card, Search Console segmentation, analytics classification, and independent recovery rules.
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French News Publishers and AI: Google News & Discover Guide
French news publishers can use AI to accelerate document review, transcription, accessibility, quality control and format adaptation—while keeping human accountability and original reporting at the center. This guide maps the technical, editorial and measurement work required across Google News, Discover, AI answers and direct readership.
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How to Track AI Search Referrals in GA4
Create a maintained AI-assistant referral segment in GA4, preserve the raw source evidence, and report click visits without presenting them as complete citation coverage.
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How to Audit Capterra Citations in ChatGPT SaaS Recommendations
This guide separates Capterra mentions, citations, SaaS recommendations, and measurable referrals, then gives you a 43-field ledger and browser-local evidence auditor.
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How to Audit First-Party Review Pages for AI Answers
Audit testimonial provenance, disclosures, crawlability, structured-data limits, claim portability, and observed AI citations without promising influence.
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Page Weight vs Extractable Text: Results From a 25-Site Audit
We measured compressed response size, decoded HTML, server-extractable text and rendered text across 25 public sites. The results show why page weight alone is not a crawlability verdict.
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Claude Compliance API: Govern Local Session Retrieval
Govern Claude Enterprise session transcript access with current product coverage, scoped keys, evidence limits, retention, chain of custody, and an export register.
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