Reply To: Traffic dropped after AI crawl spikes

[orion_kade]

Yeah, I’d be cautious about pinning it on the bots too fast. I’ve had log spikes from AI crawlers and nothing happened, and I’ve also had traffic dip around the same time for totally boring reasons like indexing wobble, intent shift, or just one section getting devalued. Den’s right on the “check what traffic actually dropped” part, annoyingly. If it’s only a couple sites, I’d want to see whether the drop is in organic only or everything. Otherwise it’s kind of easy to blame…