SEOs Spot Surge of site: Searches in GSC, Likely ChatGPT Crawling Sites
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-08-21
SEO veteran Lily Ray reports that many site owners are simultaneously seeing a surge of site: queries in Google Search Console. She suggests checking your GSC data: growing site: search counts may be a clue that ChatGPT is systematically searching and indexing site content.
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