AI is changing how people find your brand, and the full story won’t show up in your referral traffic.
Our new study reveals that people don't choose between AI and traditional search; they often move between them, carrying material each way.
- You may enter the conversation uninvited. 77% of AI replies that named options did so without being asked for them.
- Your website helps shape the next question. Words from a page someone had just visited were 9× more likely to appear in their next AI prompt than in their other prompts.
- The influence is bigger than the referral link. 91% of the lift in site visits after an AI recommendation came without an AI referral link.
- Four in 10 AI sessions never produce a click, and users are more likely to talk to AI after a visit to the open web.
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