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The Dark Traffic Effect: Measuring Invisible Demand from AI Answers

October 4, 2025

Assistant answers will continue to drift away from classic SERPs, which means more journeys will finish on a summary because the synthesis is good enough for the task at hand. A growing share of everyday decisions will begin in a chat box and end without a referral header, so your job is to be present inside the summaries people trust and to account for the lift that presence creates in exposure, in recall, and, ultimately, in pipeline. 

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