SEO practitioner: AI scraping is making rank tracking obsolete for everyone
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-10-02
An SEO practitioner observes that the surge in AI scraping is pushing the industry to a point where nobody will be able to do rank tracking anymore — signaling that a core measurement pillar of traditional SEO is being eroded by the AI traffic ecosystem.
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