I am most certainly not panicking (or "pressing that red button"), but I still see that 87%-decrease in traffic as a real problem: if we remember that getting visitors to one's website also always was about being able and sell them something related or even quite different (else what would ever have been the point of the "old SEO-requirement" of having good and keyword-relevant blog content on a company website, without that??), then NOT HAVING these visitors anymore IS a significant problem. Also, makes a lot of sense from Google's PoV as they have been jummping the queue and positioning themselves time and again -- from the 2012 Penguin and the 2016 Panda updates, or even before that: they have a track record of leaving ANYTHING smelling of "competition" to them (again from their PoV, which I don't share -- I am all for a FREE INTERNET, standards-compliant and non-proprietary content in accordance with W3C guidelines, and freedom of speech) behind by unfairly exercising their monopoly, by cornering the market, and by only caring ab out their own nefarious agenda (why does this sound so familar...?), and "AI summaries", AI search & more are where we come closer to the end result: "Own Noting and Be Happy". Now, anyone TELL ME why I would still "be happy"?! What's even the point of being "cited" at all -- I don't give a shit about this "credential" as long as it does not also give me dollars and cents! Maybe someone can clarify why "being cited" should be of ANY value to me (other than perhaps that my good old website *internally* and *behind the scenes* ranks a little better (within Google's Black Box) which I don't give a damn about if it doesn't bring visitors, builds my list & more. So what IS the point of being the foundation of what AI summaries are collected from?

Yes, people tout how important "AI Ranking" is, how we suddenly call it "GEO" (what used to be SEO), and how badly "we want" to be CITED by this AI tool or the next... Okay, I get it -- but it's still an ENORMOUSLY BAD DEAL for us! Why? How much traffic do you get from Google Images? Can you be sure you EVER MADE A SALE off a Google-Images visitor coming in to your website or -- better yet -- sales funnel or email list? I doubt it. So even IF you manage to GEO-engineer :) your way up the "AI Ladder" -- what really do you gain? Somebody please do explain. Somebody please SHOW ME THE MONEY b/c so far non being there... ___ And, hey: that pun is -- of course -- inteneded; also the term GEO is spectacularly bad as it is not "searchable" anymore. (Anything GEO lands you nearly everywhere, except ranking web assets!) Oh my.

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