A confidential OpenAI document, seen by only a small number of media, points to a shift many teams are missing: ChatGPT can show enormous impression volume while sending very little referral traffic.
The numbers
For one top URL, the file shows 518,624 link displays in ChatGPT responses and just 4,670 clicks, under 1%. Most pages sit near 0%, and the zones where the model shows the most tend to generate the fewest clicks.
Why it matters
You can be shown hundreds of thousands of times and receive almost no traffic. As agents become the new editors, a model’s trust starts to matter more than a first-page ranking. Managing visibility in AI-driven discovery is exactly what Draft & Goal helps teams do.
About Draft & Goal
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