Google Search Console now surfaces AI visibility data, enabling statistically-backed tests
VeryWellVersed · x · 2026-10-21
willcritchlow discovered that Google Search Console now includes AI visibility data. His team had been going through a painstaking manual process of gathering and analyzing that data for tests with strong AI visibility hypotheses.
- Punchline: they're detecting AI visibility impacts with statistical confidence for the first time
- The problem with most AI visibility tracking is you can't tell whether numbers changed because of what you did or just noise; GSC data plus experiments now enables attribution
- A significant signal for teams optimizing for AI search traffic (AEO/GEO)
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