What does 'prompt volume' even mean? One Budapest itinerary prompt, three interpretations
dejanseo · x · 2026-09-17
SEO expert dejanseo breaks down three possible meanings of the buzzword "prompt volumes":
- a. Literally: lots of people are prompting now;
- b. Uniqueness: a specific 100-word Budapest itinerary prompt would be typed exactly by maybe two people on Earth — an individual prompt has essentially zero volume;
- c. Fanout aggregation: the real signal is the sum of underlying search queries a single prompt fans out into (e.g., "Budapest 3 day district itinerary", "Budapest day trips by train", "Szechenyi vs Gellert vs Rudas").
The thread exposes a definitional split in measuring AI-era search traffic: individual prompts carry no volume — value lies in the aggregated fanout queries.
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