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The Daily Carnage

november 12, 2025

It’s Not Clicking

Dude, where’s my SEO traffic?

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The Great SEO Traffic Decline

SEO traffic is indeed dipping in 2025. But not for the reasons you might think.

ChatGPT may be stealing search share, but new data from Grow & Convert suggests that Google’s AI Overviews could be the real cause.

Rankings and impressions are rising, conversions are steady (or growing), and yet clicks are falling. Sites are showing up more often in search results, but fewer users are clicking through.

And this shift aligns with Google’s March 2025 rollout of AI Overviews, which now deliver summarized answers directly in the SERP.

AI Overviews still mention brands, but users often:

  • Open a new tab to search the brand directly
  • Click a “dotted” AI Overview link that triggers a branded search
  • Go straight to the homepage instead of the blog post

Which means traffic that used to be counted as “organic” is now showing up as direct or branded, creating new attribution blind spots.

Basically, SEO is still working, it’s just harder to measure its full impact. Here’s how to adapt:

  • Add a “How did you hear about us?” field to lead forms
  • Track both blog and homepage traffic
  • Monitor branded search volume over time
  • Include LLM referrals in analytics reports

The target is always moving, huh? Head to Grow & Convert for more.

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