Search is in an uncomfortable phase. Traffic is down on sites that haven’t technically done anything wrong, attribution has never been murkier, and every week brings a new expert explaining how AI visibility works. Meanwhile, SEO teams are still expected to walk into a meeting and explain what’s happening.

We asked five practitioners how they handle that gap. This e-book is what came out of it: what they’re seeing in their own data and what they do when the data runs out.

What’s inside

  • Revenue alignment: How to tell whether a traffic drop is actually a business problem and how to reframe the conversation with leadership.
  • Technical debt: Why crawling, indexation and rendering matter more now.
  • Brand presence: How to monitor what AI systems say about you, four KPIs to take to an executive, and who should own the problem.
  • Query fan-out: How AI systems turn one question into many and what that means for your content audits.
  • Log file data: Which AI bots are reaching your site, what they’re reading, and what each visit means.

Contributors

Janaina Barreto-Romero
Janaina Barreto-Romero
Oncrawl
Senior Technical SEO
Rejoice Ojiaku
Rejoice Ojiaku
Wise
Senior Business Content Specialist
Sara Taher
Sara Taher
CBC
Senior SEO Analyst
Andreas Voniatis
Andreas Voniatis
Artios
Founder
Patryk Wawok
Patryk Wawok
Organic Hackers
Co-founder and Head of Technical SEO