AI is killing All About Berlin

This is the traffic to All About Berlin, the website that I run since 2017, and live from since 2020. After 7 years of growth, it has lost 70% of its traffic to Google AI Overviews. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get an AI-generated answer, then ads, then a link to my website. This has a devastating impact on traffic. [image of a modern google results page] It’s hard to fund my work with 70% fewer visitors. Soon, I will need another way to pay my rent. Instead of writing new guides, I spend my days preparing for that future. It’s not just about the money. I depend on the feedback of my audience This is not an isolated case. More website owners have reached out in private to commiserate. Some have paywalled their work. Others have given up and moved on. Their websites are still online, but they no longer get updated. Last week, Google has made two announcements: AI-generated answers will replace search results entirely, and they have ads in…