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Google result volatility can affect both organic traffic reporting and AI answer systems that rely on Google results.
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Google result volatility can affect both organic traffic reporting and AI answer systems that rely on Google results.
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Google result volatility can affect both organic traffic reporting and AI answer systems that rely on Google results.
When Google updates its algorithms, the results in Google move up and down. This is what's called volatility. This also affects AI. A lot of major AI systems like ChatGPT rely on Google. When the results change, ChatGPT gets different information.
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Google result volatility can affect both organic traffic reporting and AI answer systems...
If you want to see if Google is updating its algorithms, this is a really sweet tool: Google Search Volatility Aggregator. When Google updates its algorithms, the results in Google move up and down. This is what's called volatility. This also affects AI. A lot of major AI systems like ChatGPT rely on Google...
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If you want to see if Google is updating its algorithms, this is a really sweet tool: Google Search Volatility Aggregator. When Google updates its algorithms, the results in Google move up and down.
This is what's called volatility. This also affects AI.
A lot of major AI systems like ChatGPT rely on Google. When the results change, ChatGPT gets different information.
Volatility also affects one of the most widely used AI answer tools, AI Overviews. You've probably seen them in Google before.
These pull from the Google results below it. There are all these tools to measure Google's volatility.
This right here is an aggregator of the tools. I was at a major SEO agency doing SEO for companies like Procter and Gamble and Nintendo.
One of the things we would report on is if there was a lot of volatility. This lets the clients know that any fluctuations in organic traffic are natural.
In some rare instances, you might even find what Google is prioritizing or demoting with new algorithm updates. Then you can change your strategy for that...