Bot-Dominated Search Impressions and Zero Traction After Launch
A founder reports one month after launch with a single Product Hunt upvote, 68,000 Google impressions of which 97% were bots, and no ratings. It illustrates how hard it is to distinguish real traction from bot traffic for new products.
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