Reply To: Traffic dropped after AI crawl spikes

[axelrowan]

Realistically, yeah, I’d treat it as correlation until you can prove otherwise. I’ve seen AI crawler spikes happen right before a drop and it turned out to be indexing churn or a sitewide quality wobble, not the bots themselves. But if it’s the same couple sites and the timing is tight, I’d at least dig into logs + GSC around that window instead of hand-waving it away.