Site launches LLM-only subdomain of AI articles, sees AI search visibility collapse
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-11-12
SEO expert Lily Ray shares a case study she's been tracking: a site launched an LLM-only subdomain stuffed with AI-generated articles written presumably for AI agents. The backend data shows it backfired — AI responses dropped from 35 to 8 overall (-27), AI Overviews -4, with Perplexity down 24, Copilot -2, and ChatGPT/Gemini at zero; only Google AI Mode ticked up (+4 responses, +9 pages), while Grok citations are paused. Lesson: mass-producing content purely for LLMs doesn't earn AI search visibility — it gets you ignored.
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