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Re:RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google by archleaf on Thursday May 07, 2026 @12:25PM (#48051317)
Do you get attribution from the content they show from your sites at all? Did you notice more direct traffic by any chance?
Re:RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google by nicbou on Thursday May 07, 2026 @12:42PM (#48051552)
Very rarely. AI traffic is a tiny tiny fraction of total traffic. ChatGPT and Gemini mostly spit out unattributed information, except when queries trigger a web search.

I notice many 404s from ChatGPT to hallucinated URLs on my website. Sometimes it hallucinates guides about topics I never covered. So I'm getting cited for things I didn't even say!

I also notice that for other topics, the cited sources are crap. The best shaver is a Braun shaver according to Braun.com, and two comments on a 6 years old reddit thread about a different topic.