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Why did our organic click-through rates suddenly plummet after Google launched SGE for our niche, and what recovery tactics are working right now in 2024?

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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

SEED QUERY
Why did our organic click-through rates suddenly plummet after Google launched SGE for our niche, and what recovery tactics are working right now in 2024?
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
Google AI Overviews organic click-through rate impact 2026 studies publisher traffic CTR recovery tacticsGoogle ↗
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Google SGE AI Overviews 2024 SEO CTR impact study recovery strategies original researchGoogle ↗
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Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.

Query classes

Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

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Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 2 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

ChatGPT2 real searches · gpt-6
Google AI Overviews organic click-through rate impact 2026 studies publisher traffic CTR recovery tactics Google ↗
Google SGE AI Overviews 2024 SEO CTR impact study recovery strategies original research Google ↗

Queries

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Google AI Overviews organic click-through rate impact 2026 studies publisher traffic CTR recovery tactics
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Google SGE AI Overviews 2024 SEO CTR impact study recovery strategies original research
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Google ↗
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—Reason——1x
of 1