{"id":22738,"date":"2024-11-08T13:26:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/?p=22738"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:24:48","slug":"search-wars-your-traffic-hangs-in-the-balance-thanks-chatgpt-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/ro\/search-wars-your-traffic-hangs-in-the-balance-thanks-chatgpt-search\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfaf Search Wars: Your Traffic Hangs in the Balance (Thanks ChatGPT Search)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-Favicon-coloured-background_.png\" alt=\"MarketingAlec\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-Favicon-coloured-background_.png 512w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-Favicon-coloured-background_-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-Favicon-coloured-background_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-Favicon-coloured-background_-270x270.png 270w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-Favicon-coloured-background_-192x192.png 192w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-Favicon-coloured-background_-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-Favicon-coloured-background_-32x32.png 32w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/elementor\/thumbs\/cropped-Favicon-coloured-background_-qsd1w4gm5oppmlw0i0651x3vnemu1l8b6yh9wjvsh4.png 100w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/elementor\/thumbs\/cropped-Favicon-coloured-background_-qsd1w4gl6lokc7d0yvh7d216tj9j46nqhit4zfi0g8.png 20w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/elementor\/thumbs\/cropped-Favicon-coloured-background_-qsd1w4gljrbhtlt5ajqjzvop4qj0ppmg926otun6gk.png 50w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/elementor\/thumbs\/cropped-Favicon-coloured-background_-qsd1w4glo574zemiqfto7hkj8gy6kvy0u8n7fzowgo.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" title=\"\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/subscription\/\" id=\"HButton\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/subscription\/\" id=\"HButton\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoin 7k+ Subscribers<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Search-Wars-Your-Traffic-Hangs-in-the-Balance--1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Search-Wars-Your-Traffic-Hangs-in-the-Balance--1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Search-Wars-Your-Traffic-Hangs-in-the-Balance--300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Search-Wars-Your-Traffic-Hangs-in-the-Balance--768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Search-Wars-Your-Traffic-Hangs-in-the-Balance--1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/marketingalec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Search-Wars-Your-Traffic-Hangs-in-the-Balance-.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" title=\"\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">SEO Just Got Interesting\u2026<\/h3>\n<h1>Same Time, More Search Engines. GPT\u2019S Giving Google A Run For It\u2019s Money (Finally) \ud83d\ude80<\/h1>\n<p><b>Read Time<\/b>: 6 minutes<\/p>\n<p>We are going deep on AI driven SEO in light of the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/introducing-chatgpt-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>ChatGPT Search<\/b><\/a> \u2013 if you care about your website traffic, you\u2019ll want to read this one\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s going to be 3x more search engines in your life in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The issue?<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have 3x more time.<\/p>\n<p><b>How do you keep up? Lets break it down.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffc<\/p>\n<h3>Getting You Up To <i>Speed<\/i> on The Big News \ud83d\udea8<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>ChatGPT just <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/introducing-chatgpt-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>crashed the search party<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Press is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/chatgpt-has-officially-replaced-google-search-for-me-heres-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>raving about the results<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Plus giving source links (like Google, but make it AI)<\/li>\n<li>Currently for Plus\/Teams users\u2026 free version coming soon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically, if ChatGPT Search was a car, it would be a Tesla. Changing the rules of the game. No Ads. Conversational.<\/p>\n<h3>Why Should You Care? \ud83e\udd14<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Google\u2019s had a 25-year monopoly on search<\/li>\n<li>But now we\u2019ve got:\n<ul>\n<li>Google with AI (still 90%)<\/li>\n<li>Bing + ChatGPT (Microsoft\u2019s getting spicy)<\/li>\n<li>ChatGPT\u2019s own search (the new kid)<\/li>\n<li>Meta? In 2025<\/li>\n<li>Perplexity<\/li>\n<li>X Search? In 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">More players = more SEO work<\/h3>\n<h3>What I\u2019m Seeing Already \ud83d\udc40<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m getting flooded with questions on how to rank for ChatGPT Search. Our company\/product\/retail location is NOT THERE \u26a0\ufe0f<\/li>\n<li>Voice search usage is accelerating among younger users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are no Ads in ChatGPT and if Google on Average is 41% of your Ad Spend\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-radius: 4px 4px 4px 4px; width: 414px; height: auto; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcVZFTLeRmEbmpUS91f9S9vQAZs9SKret_cDeggiOomryWzFr0oD1QF4NZAzh4_9v6SZ4pb1DViDTKou50rdhcI_bZNjfT--FOYNP1Ee0M30mlb3aARIl3nLmMQt3qH7PGbJ1VALw?key=QJnfZXIzQ_GPg2ZRHsZziIok\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"auto\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It varies <i>generationally <\/i>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gwi.com\/trends\/ai-and-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfSEOg2f5l7nr1KQ21PaFtinhzvlnu9wsskYgME1mXa5QAClP5AUWDXlOqxbKuAyqHc5pSvYM2esgN-uMpz8jKCJFoYDN2iOlIlWUtAhi3MvKhsCIf0k8wThMO0p0vqXlGPtRv7yA?key=QJnfZXIzQ_GPg2ZRHsZziIok\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"444\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And by query <i>type<\/i>\n<p><a style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: #f8f5f0; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium);\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.gwi.com\/trends\/ai-and-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcU83Y4tVeyqm3bf3q29g3vtMcJjH5I_SjoinvBn11ouaKH4ezMzUsZASd0EPvYm-_21OogoMiNcX0Z3LlXYc0dfo-YyC955gt6gOOX0e14uNNHYdjyFJ13c7EUMlYXQllsuPDtZQ?key=QJnfZXIzQ_GPg2ZRHsZziIok\" alt=\"ad 4nxcu83y4tveyqm3bf3q29g3vtmcjjh5i sjoinvbn11ouakh4ezmzuszasd0epvym 21oogomincx0z3llxyc0dfo yyc955gt6goox0e14unnhydjyfj13c7eumlyxqllsupdtzq?key=qjnfzxizq gpg2zrhszziiok\" width=\"458\" height=\"531\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Do you care?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re my local daycare, with parents fighting over spots, maybe not, but it you live off Google traffic\u2026 you need to get <b>ON THIS<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No time to rank on ChatGPT? Talk with an SEO expert, as its ScaledOn\u2019s <b>favorite thing to do<\/b>. No, Really.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffc <a href=\"https:\/\/scaledon.com\/solutions\/seo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Book Your ChatGPT Cal<\/b><\/a>l \ud83d\udc48\ud83c\udffc<\/p>\n<h3>STEP-BY-STEP 2025 TRAFFIC guide \ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2708\ufe0f<\/h3>\n<p><b>Start By: Checking Your Exposure<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pull your Google Analytics<\/li>\n<li>What % of traffic is search (Organic and Ads)?<\/li>\n<li>How much would a 20%+ drop hurt?<\/li>\n<li>Is your business overly Google-dependent?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Then: Get Your AI Game On<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Test ChatGPT Plus ($20\/month \u2013 worth it)<\/li>\n<li>Try Microsoft Copilot if you are in corporate, or Claude in Social<\/li>\n<li>Start using AI SEO tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cuppa.sh\/?via=alec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Cuppa<\/b> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/koala.sh\/?via=marketing-alec-newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Koala.ai<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Next: Diversify Your Traffic<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t be a one-search-engine pony<\/li>\n<li>Get content indexed on all platforms<\/li>\n<li>Monitor Bing\/ChatGPT results<\/li>\n<li>Build your email list (you own it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Then: Level Up Your Content<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fresh readable content wins in AI search<\/li>\n<li>Improve your E-E-A-T signals = Trust<\/li>\n<li>Answer questions clearly = Easy<\/li>\n<li>Think voice search friendly \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/notebooklm.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>NotebookLM<\/b><\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Finally: Test &amp; Adapt<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set up GA4 and Alerts to track progress<\/li>\n<li>Watch for traffic shifts MoM and YoY<\/li>\n<li>Stay agile &gt; more changes coming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\ud83d\udca1<b>Pro Tip<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Block 30 mins this week to audit your traffic sources. 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