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Analysis of the failures we find again and again when we audit sites: blocked crawlers, empty HTML, missing entities, buried answers and metrics that measure the wrong thing.

Article15 Sept 2026 · 4 min read

You are measuring the wrong things

Most marketing dashboards still report rankings and sessions, and neither tells you whether AI engines recommend you. AI referrals land in Direct, citations never register as a visit, and nobody checks whether the crawlers can get in. Here are the four measures a 2026 dashboard needs.

Richard Daniel
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