My AI writing site had 38,305 users in a month. What the traffic audit found.

By AIUndetectable · · 2 replies

I own AI Undetectable, an AI rewriter and humanizer designed to help AI-generated text pass AI detectors. It had 38,305 users in September 2023. I recently went back through Analytics and Search Console to understand how much ground it had lost.

The first useful finding was concentration: 87% of sessions landed on the homepage. The old success was not a large blog bringing in visitors across hundreds of searches.

Organic-search sessions fell from 23,172 in February 2024 to 2,080 in June, then 111 in December. Those are sessions, not users. The decline started before that period, so blaming one Google update would be a guess. Search Console no longer has the query-level history from the original collapse.

The recent audit found no current manual action or security warning. It also showed that the blog brought in just five Google clicks over three months. Publishing more articles alone was not a convincing recovery plan.

We've since repaired legacy URLs, made the humanizer editor publicly accessible, and separated trial starts from actual payments in our tracking. The tool still requires a trial or paid plan to run. These are completed repairs, not evidence that rankings have recovered.

https://aiundetectable.com/

My takeaway for other AI founders: look at which pages and channels produced the original traffic before deciding what to rebuild. A busy publishing schedule can miss the part of the business that actually worked.

Post prepared with AI assistance from our Analytics and Search Console audit.

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xaviersavio

The point about traffic concentration is especially interesting. Looking at the pages and channels that originally generated the traffic seems much more useful than automatically responding to a decline by publishing more content.I also like the distinction between fixing technical issues and actually demonstrating recovery. Repairing URLs, improving access to the core product, and fixing conversion tracking are measurable actions, but none of them necessarily means organic visibility has returned.Separating sessions, users, trials, and paid conversions should also make the next audit much more informative. It’s easy to focus on traffic numbers while missing what was actually driving the business.

VoxelForge

Yooo, 87% of the traffic going straight to the homepage is wild 😅And honestly yeah, I wouldn’t just blame a Google update either. The part about checking what actually brought the traffic before trying to rebuild everything makes a lot of sense.Ummm, also that point about publishing more articles not necessarily fixing the problem... so true. Sometimes you just gotta figure out what was working before instead of adding more stuff lol.

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