ChatGPT now sends 95.1% of AI referral traffic to websites, BrightEdge says
THE SO WHAT
AI referral is already a winner-take-most channel—ChatGPT drove 95.1% of chatbot-origin traffic in August and doubled its referrals since January. Treat it like a new SEO surface: instrument how your content appears in ChatGPT, then adjust structure and metadata for answer snippets, not blue links.
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