• Portfolio
  • About
  • Blog
  • Dwelling in a Place of Yes
  • Contact
Menu

Retina Media

  • Portfolio
  • About
  • Blog
  • Dwelling in a Place of Yes
  • Contact

The Dark Traffic Effect: Measuring Invisible Demand from AI Answers

October 4, 2025

A growing share of everyday decisions will begin in an AI chat box and end without a referral click, 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. 

Read More
Tags Dark Traffic, AI Search, GEO, SEO, AI Visibility

The Web Is Disappearing: What Google's Court Admission Reveals About AI Search

September 13, 2025

The web we knew it is gone, and it’s time to build for what's actually emerging: a post-search world where discovery happens through conversation, where dark traffic carries your best customers, and where the entire middle layer of the internet gets compressed into AI responses.

Read More
Tags AI, AI Search, SEO, GEO, Dark Traffic

Latest

Featured
Oct 21, 2025
The Discovery Wars: Why AI Answers Are Replacing Search
Oct 21, 2025
Oct 21, 2025
Oct 9, 2025
How B2B Buyers Build Shortlists: GEO For AI Overviews, ChatGPT, And Perplexity
Oct 9, 2025
Oct 9, 2025
Oct 4, 2025
The Dark Traffic Effect: Measuring Invisible Demand from AI Answers
Oct 4, 2025
Oct 4, 2025
Sep 28, 2025
When the Flame Stays Lit
Sep 28, 2025
Sep 28, 2025
Sep 13, 2025
The Web Is Disappearing: What Google's Court Admission Reveals About AI Search
Sep 13, 2025
Sep 13, 2025
Aug 24, 2025
Who Made This? The Crisis and Evolution of Creative Authorship in the AI Era
Aug 24, 2025
Aug 24, 2025
Aug 13, 2025
The AI That Threatened to Expose an Affair Explains Itself
Aug 13, 2025
Aug 13, 2025
Aug 6, 2025
The GEO White Paper: Optimizing Brand Discoverability in Models like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews (Version 3.0, August 2025)
Aug 6, 2025
Aug 6, 2025
Jul 17, 2025
The Real Introduction
Jul 17, 2025
Jul 17, 2025

© 2025  Shane H. Tepper