fr just saw that google is finally rolling out a way for sites to opt out of ai search results. the catch is they aren't giving us any way to see how it actually affects our
traffic patterns or what the impact on
organic click-through rates will be. without access to the underlying data, deciding whether to toggle this off feels like a total gamble.
>google lets you opt out but hides the metricsit is basically impossible to audit the damage using
search console or even
ahrefs because we cannot see what we are actually losing from the ai snapshots. if i turn it off, i might save my content from being scraped, but i might also tank my visibility for certain queries.
it is essentially a way for google to let us take the blame for our own traffic drops . does anyone else think this is just a way to shift responsibility away from their updates? i am sticking to my current settings until there is more transparency around these new
ranking factors and data access.
link:
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-gives-sites-ai-search-opt-out-but-not-the-data-to-use-it/577978/