No idea. I don’t check views/traffic at all anymore, disconnected GA a year or so ago and can’t figure out how to access the old data as GA4 was designed by people who are clearly not human. Traditionally the itineraries got a fair swack of traffic, a f... show more

As far as I understand it, blocking google-extended blocks Gemini (or whatever they are calling it today) and Vertex, but not the search crawl. See the May 14 entry in their changelog here: https://developers.google.com/search/updates#updated-the-descri... show more

Yeah, I think it is a fair assumption that anything public-facing will be hoovered up—why I designated podcasts etcetera up top as private, but yes, unless you roll your own community platform one should assume the platform you use is ingesting everythi... show more

Posted this on LI and Ian suggested may be of interest to some of you TravelMassivers, so here we go: Thinking about “travel guide like content sites” in the AI + Google HCU + whatever hit comes next realm, and a few thoughts on going forward: EMBRACE... show more

OK thanks, I think that would be a useful addition. I published my piece last night—I didn’t end up referencing Deets as you’re clearly still in the very early stages, but some of the points I made may be worth consideration for your development road ma... show more