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How to Track AI Traffic in GA4: A 1-Minute Marketing Tip

May 13, 2026 / Google Analytics
The 1-Minute Marketing tip “How to See AI Traffic in GA4” explains how to track website traffic from AI tools and assistants using GA4 custom channel groupings. The process involves...
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AI Use in Publishing & Marketing: What 24 Practitioners Told Us

Over the past few weeks, I ran a short survey on AI use among marketing and sales professionals in publishing, arts, and education. The respondents were Boxcar Marketing subscribers and...
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How to See Which Pages Are Performing Best in GA4

Apr 23, 2026 / Google Analytics
If you want to know which pages are performing best in GA4, the answer is not just “the ones with the most pageviews.” A high-traffic page can still have weak...
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How to Diagnose Search Traffic Loss (SEO & GEO)

The modern search landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift. For two decades, the relationship between search visibility and site traffic was linear: rank higher, get more clicks, which meant more...
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Ways to Support Author Marketing

The Big 5 have robust author portals and training ecosystems. Most small- and mid-sized presses don’t. So what’s the lightweight, effective version? How to Build Author Momentum (Not One-off Moments)...
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BC + AI Ecosystem

Becoming Founding Member #145 of BC + AI Ecosystem Association feels both timely and necessary. AI is already reshaping how cultural work is discovered, produced, distributed, and valued. AI raises...
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