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I Ran an AI-Bot-Only Log Pipeline on My Sites for 30 Days. The Numbers Didn’t Match My SEO Tools

SEO dashboards are misleading for AI-bot traffic — they undercount real activity, misclassify bot types, and include fake (spoofed) requests. Server logs are the only reliable source because AI bots don’t run JavaScript and don’t appear in analytics tools. AI traffic isn’t one thing — it splits into...

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