Hey Google we are not stupid 🤷♀️
Not every website sells a product… so many businesses are relying on “views” as their north start metric bec they sell “add views” for example… what do you say to that?
Publishers, you know the ones you’re using their content in ai overviews to keep users on your platform, publish content to get “views” on their website…
So you’re not only taking their content, but you’re also taking their viewership too.
Second, for businesses that sell something… when they don’t get users at early stages of the funnel, they have zero influence over the users’ decision where to convert…
Google wants to take the informational content from multiple websites, show the user the answer, and ultimately influence where the user converts… while we watch and hope for the best 😆
Less traffic but more conversions… few studies came out recently and what we know so far, this is not true for all websites… some websites get better conversions, and some see no change…
So while Google continues to use our content, and works hard to convince us that it’s not that bad for us, it’s actually great… we need to keep speaking up
Bec it seems Google cares only about Google 🤷♀️
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