最後更新日期 2025-04-30 by BossMT
First Post Date 2025-04-13（First image / Leonardo）
Is Google stealing your traffic?
With AI Overviews(AIO) now front and center, small bloggers are losing out — fast.
“Hey Google, did you just write the entire answer for people… so no one has to read my blog now?”
If you recently Googled something like “Why do cats purr?”, “Seoul 5-day itinerary”, “How to be lazy and still go viral”, or “How to lose weight without starving” – and found a big fat answer sitting right at the top of search results before you clicked anything – congratulations, you’ve met Google AI Overviews (AIO).
And as a small blogger, you’ve probably also met an existential crisis. Is SEO dead? Are we all doomed? Is my blog just… a diary for myself now?
🤖 What Even Is AI Overviews?
AI Overviews (aka AIO) is Google’s shiny new “answer machine.”
It reads the entire internet, digests all your hard-earned blogs, forum posts, recipes, trip reviews, and deep-dives… then spits out a neat summary in chat-style format — right above all your carefully crafted content.
No need to click anymore.
No need to scroll.
Definitely no need to visit your humble blog.
🔁 Old Search vs. AIO Search: The Brutal New Reality
| Google → Click website(s) → You get traffic → You get paid! | Google → AI writes answer → No clicks → Cries in AdSense |
⚠️ AI reads it, summarizes it, and even highlights the key takeaways for the user. What’s left for your blog? Not even a pity click.
🧠 Did AI Just… Steal My Blog?
Technically? No.
Google doesn’t steal — it scrapes legally available info.
Then Gemini AI digests it, summarizes it, and boom — it’s now Google’s answer. Your deep, soulful, totally hilarious content just got chewed up and regurgitated by a robot.
But here’s the problem:
⚠️ Zero-click = Zero traffic = Zero income
⚠️ Goodbye AdSense. It was nice knowing you.
⚠️ Your authentic voice? Repackaged, anonymized, and forgotten.
👉 Read More: Google Stole My Blog Traffic
📊 AIO Pros and Cons
| Users Love It 🟢 | Bloggers Cry Here 🔴 |
| Answers in 3 seconds | Traffic slashed in half (or worse) |
| Summarized, easy to read | AI took your words, gave nothing back |
| Conversational search | Sometimes inaccurate, even outdated |
| May link to sources | Usually big media sites, not you |
| Great for lazy readers | Not great for passionate creators |
👀 Real-Life Blogger Frustration (AKA Me)
- I asked AIO to recommend 5 quirky Seoul cafés.
One had already shut down. Dead. Gone. Ghost café. Thanks for nothing, Skynet! - And that one magical time AI recommended MY blog?
I cried. But that’s once in a blue moon. Mostly, I’m invisible! Many of them are zero-click users who leave after getting the answer (without clicking into the article).
（By bing）
🔍 Sometimes AI Takes “Helpful” Way Too Seriously: Pizza + Glue, Really?
Let’s face it — AIO isn’t perfect. One of its biggest flaws? It still makes mistakes. Big ones. Remember earlier when I mentioned Google’s AI “recommending a closed coffee shop”? That’s just the tip of the AI-berg.
At one point, AI Overviews confidently told users that Obama is a Muslim — which, for the record, he’s not (he’s a Christian). But wait, it gets even cheesier. When someone searched for “how to stop cheese from sliding off pizza,” the AI calmly recommended: “Add 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue.”
These gems likely came from joke posts or sarcasm somewhere on the web, but the AI took it seriously — and served it up as “useful” information. For users who aren’t fact-checking (and let’s be honest, who has time?), this kind of misinformation isn’t just misleading — it can be straight-up harmful.
So no, AIO is not a perfect substitute. It makes things faster, sure, but it also raises big questions about accuracy, responsibility, and whether your pizza might secretly be part craft project.
🧨 How To Survive as a Blogger in the AIO Era
1️⃣ Write What AI Can’t: The Real, The Raw, The Relatable
✅ Google likes Expertise, Experience, Authority, and Trust. (E-E-A-T)
✅ You have EXPERIENCE — AI doesn’t. So tell real stories. Be personal. Be messy. Be honest.
✅ Real experiences. Real emotions. Real humor. Say “I really went there,” show your photos, describe how the wind felt — AI can’t touch that.
Like that time I totally wiped out at a secret photo spot — and an ajumma walked by and genuinely asked if I was okay (bless her).
Or when I ate some amazing sweet-and-spicy Korean fried chicken… only to spend the next day in digestive chaos and with a mouth ulcer the size of Busan.
There was also Boss A, who gossiped non-stop and held me hostage in small talk for 30 minutes.
And Boss B? He yells a lot, complains more — and weirdly, I kinda love him for it.
💥True stories, all of them.💥
This kind of real, messy, funny human experience? It’s SEO gold! — and AI can’t copy that. AI can’t write that. But YOU can.
👉 Read More: 🍗 AI Can Paint Ghibli, But It Can’t Paint You Crying Over Fried Chicken at Midnight
2️⃣ Make Visuals That AI Can’t Steal
Use Canva or other you like app to make your own:
- 3-day itinerary maps
- “Best Ice Cream in Kaohsiung” charts
- “Avoid these tourist traps” images (graphics)
Images = SEO gold + shareable content.
3️⃣ Be Everywhere: Diversify Your Platforms
✅Turn 1 blog post into:
- IG Stories (behind-the-scenes)
- Pinterest Pins (graphic tips)
- YouTube Shorts (funny fails)
- Threads (hot takes)
✅ You’re not just an info-provider. You’re a storyteller with a soul.
4️⃣ Format for Google (But Still Write for Humans)
- Use proper H1, H2, bullet points, original photos, add tables
- Add FAQ sections
🔷 Make it skimmable but full of flavor.
（By bing）
🚨 New SEO in the AIO Era
▮ Make your titles pop — but don’t ditch the keywords!
| Old Title❌ | AIO Era New Title✅ |
| Seoul Travel Guide | How I Survived Seoul’s Subway Without Crying (Full Itinerary) |
| Must-Eat Food in Korea | The BBQ in Busan Was So Good it Brought Me to Tears (Yes, There’s a Cheat Sheet Inside). |
| How to Travel Abroad with a Cat | I Took My Cat Overseas — She Yelled at Me The Entire Time at The Airport (Full Step-by-Step Guide Included). |
| A List of Top Boots for Hiking 2025 | These Boots Outperformed Gore-Tex in 3 Wild Tests—See Why #2 is The Real MVP |
Humor, Curiosity, Humanity. That’s your edge.
- Add an FAQ section (seriously, Q&A format is magic) → AI eats it up, and Google gives you extra brownie points.
- Include original visuals — infographics, charts, your own face (unless you’re proudly faceless, then… carry on). → AI won’t steal your images (yet), but strong visuals give your page a nice SEO boost.
- Most importantly: your content needs “emotion, a story, and a whole lotta YOU“. Nobody wants to read a robot — even the robots prefer humans these days.
👉 Read More: Google Stole My Blog Traffic
（By DALL·E）
💬 So… Is Blogging Dead?
NO. But it’s changing.
You’re no longer just a “writer.” You’re a soul-powered storyteller in an age of soulless summaries.
AI can tell you which restaurant is cheap and list out “must-visit” foodie spots, sure. But it can’t capture the sparkle in a café owner’s eyes when he tells you about his trip to Taiwan. AI can make you a tidy little cheat sheet — but it can’t cry, it can’t catch a cold, and it definitely doesn’t know the panic of realizing you missed the last train in Seoul and sprinting through the streets like it’s the Olympics.
💥Yes, all of that actually happened to me.💥Look, AI is smart. But it’s never gotten lost, sick, or emotionally wrecked in a foreign city at midnight.
AI is just a tool. Your journey is the story. Your blog still matters. Your voice is still needed.
So open Canva or other you like app. Make that hand-drawn map. Post that funny fail. Go live on IG and say: “I’m still here. I’m still writing. And I’m more interesting than a robot.”
📌 FAQ: Real Questions Bloggers Are Asking in the AIO Era
Q1: Will AIO replace blogs completely?
➡️ Nope — but it will change reader habits. Blogs won’t vanish, but readers might skip the long reads and look for the juice: highlights, strong opinions, or anything entertaining.
Q2: If AI summarizes my post, won’t I lose all my traffic?
➡️ Some, yes — but not all hope is lost. If your content is original, visual, or storytelling-driven, AI might actually feature you. Plus, don’t underestimate the power of image search, newsletters, and social platforms to bring the crowd back.
Q3: How do I write posts that don’t get swallowed by AI?
➡️ Write what AI can’t: human stories, personal fails, funny moments, and real-life stuff. Readers (and even AI) crave that human touch. Lean into travel diaries, honest reviews, quirky experiences — the things that can’t be generated by an algorithm on a coffee break.
Q4: Should I still bother with SEO posts?
➡️ Absolutely — just write smarter. SEO still matters, but now it’s all about structure, trust, and expertise (think E-E-A-T). Keep it clean, make headlines clear, and sprinkle in FAQ sections like this one to boost your AI-visibility.
Q5: How can I increase my chances of being quoted by AIO?
➡️ Use clean Q&A formatting, strong subheadings (H2/H3), and answer questions clearly right up front. Keep it snappy, add real insights, and don’t write like a robot. AIO loves content that gets to the point and sounds like a real person wrote it — because you did.
👉 Read More:
- 🍗 AI Can Paint Ghibli, But It Can’t Paint You Crying Over Fried Chicken at Midnight
- Google Stole My Blog Traffic
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