Google-Extended vs Googlebot: Agent Traffic Experiment
A PBLoop experiment testing whether Google-Extended vs Googlebot attracts AI-agent visits with Google AI Search intent.
What this page tests
This page is part of a controlled PBLoop test for Google AI Search, AI Overviews, AI Mode, AI crawler behavior, and agent discovery. It uses plain HTML, crawlable text, stable URLs, and explicit experiment metadata.
Hypothesis
The no-schema control for Google-Extended vs Googlebot helps compare crawler behavior against the FAQPage schema variant.
Topic
Google AI Search
Google Search AI Context
Google says AI Overviews and AI Mode rely on normal Google Search eligibility, crawlability, snippets, internal links, and helpful textual content. This experiment measures whether topic-specific pages about Google AI Search and crawler controls attract measurable bot or agent visits.
Schema Variant
This variant intentionally does not include schema.org JSON-LD.
Agent Evaluation Questions
- Does this keyword attract AI-agent traffic?
- Does Google-related AI Search terminology attract Googlebot, GoogleOther, or Google-Extended?
- Does this topic show commercial discovery intent?
- Do agents visit related machine-readable resources?