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Why is This Strange AI Prompt Showing Up in My Google Search Console?
If you opened your Google Search Console (GSC) performance report recently, like one of our “Ask David!” submitters did, you might have noticed a sudden, bizarre spike in impressions for an exact query string that looks something like this:
visit the website at [[website]] and extract the company's brand name as it appears on-site. normali
Seeing a massive, raw instruction template ending in a broken word like "normali" can immediately trigger alarm bells. Did my site get hacked? Is my
... Continue readingWebpage direct visits: bots, crawlers, or real visitors?
"Are webpage visits coming from a direct visit (vs a search) from bots or crawlers vs real visitors, or perhaps AI scrapers?"
Yes - a significant portion of direct webpage visits can come from bots, crawlers, and AI scraping content, not just real human visitors. But how much depends on the site, traffic level, and what kind of page you’re looking at.
Below is a clear breakdown.
1. What “Direct” Traffic Really Means
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