AI snippets stealing my traffic again?

[adrian_knox]

Not gonna lie, this is getting old. A couple of my pages that used to pull decent clicks are now getting buried under AI answers and random junk results. Search Console isn’t totally dead, but the clicks are way softer than they should be. I’m seeing the same thing on a few niche sites, so I don’t think it’s just me messing something up. Maybe it’s the way Google’s pulling answers now, maybe it’s semantic stuff, maybe both. Hard to tell anymore. Anyone else noticing this kind of drop, or am I just in one of those weird weeks again?

[Den]

Personally, well, yeah, seeing it too on a couple sites. Not a total cliff, just enough of a bleed to make you stare at Search Console and get annoyed. Could be the AI junk, could be Google just shuffling crap in front of the real result again. Hard to tell anymore, which is kind of the problem.

[hankroot]

Yeah, same here. It’s not a full-on tank, just enough of a bleed that it’s annoying as hell. What’s weird is it seems to hit the pages that used to get the easy clicks the hardest. Like Google’s happy to slap an AI box or some trash result in front of anything that was actually ranking fine a month ago. Hard to call it “just a weird week” when it keeps happening on different sites.

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