Customers now get their answer from Google and AI assistants before they reach a website. Here is what that changes for a shop, and what an address of its own does about it.
68%
Of Google searches in the US now end without a click
In the first four months of 2026, two searches in three ended on the results page, up from about 60% in 2024. The answer is read where it appears, and the shop's own page is never opened.
US Google searches
Ended without a click, 202668%
Ended without a click, 202460%
Clicked through, 202632%
SparkToro, zero-click study on Similarweb clickstream data (US, Jan.–Apr. 2026)
8%
Of searches click a result once AI answers: being cited is now the key
Without an AI summary, 15% of visits click a search result; with one, 8%. The answer is what reaches people, so what counts for a shop is to be the source that answer names.
Visits that clicked a search result
No AI summary on the page15%
With an AI summary8%
Pew Research Center: 68,879 Google searches by 900 US adults (April 2025)
The figures are rounded and attributed to their publishers. Both measure Google search in the US.
Built to be found by AI
More and more customers ask an AI assistant for the best shop rather than searching. A hub under .best is built for that question.
54%
Found where AI looks for the best
Ask an AI assistant for the best shop nearby and it leans on pages built around “best”: in Meltwater’s study of 9.5 million AI citations, “Best X” listicles appeared in 54% of the most-cited LinkedIn content. A hub at shop.best/yourshop puts “best” in the shop’s own address, and gives assistants one clear page to cite for it.
Meltwater × LinkedIn Ads, LinkedIn AI visibility study (2026): share of top-cited LinkedIn content by format. No ranking or citation is promised.
Most cited content types
“Best X” listicles54%
Side-by-side comparisons50%
“How to choose” guides33%
Educational explainers17%
Thought leadership + data8%
01
“Best” is already in the address
People ask an assistant for the best shop nearby. On a .best hub, the word in their question is already in the shop's own address: shop.best/yourshop.
02
One page an assistant can read
What the shop is, what it offers and where to find it — on one page, in plain text, at one address, rather than scattered across profiles an assistant has to piece together.
03
One name everywhere
Every profile can point back to the same .best address, so the shop reads as one name rather than a handful of handles that may or may not be the same shop.
04
The source is the shop itself
When an assistant cites the hub, it cites the shop's own page — not a marketplace listing, a directory or a lookalike account speaking for it.
Nothing here promises a ranking or a citation: assistants choose their own sources. A .best hub gives them a clear one.
One address. Everything the shop is.
shop.best/yourshop is an address the shop holds, a hub it opens, and a follow that is held against it.
Your shop. At the Best address.
shop.best/yourshop for free, and on Pro yourshop.shop.best — the shop's own address, easy to say and easy to find.
aurelian.shop.best
Address ofAurelian
PlanPro
shop.Best brandingRemoved
All your links in one place
New arrivals, the store, fittings, click & collect and the list on one page, at one address printed on the bag.
Aurelianshop.best/aurelian
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Super Follow: Grow your customers
Customers follow the shop at its address, not a marketplace's — so the regulars hear about the drop from the shop itself.
Super Follow
12,846+24%
Held atshop.best/aurelian
Moves with the nameYes
Click analytics
See what customers press — shop, book, find the store — counted at the shop's own address rather than inferred from a marketplace's dashboard.
Link clicks, this month
48,209+18%
Measured atyour own address
Send messages to Super Followers
The new collection, the restock, the late opening: written once, and it lands with every Super Follower.
Message to Super Followers
The autumn collection is in — 15% off in store this weekend with SUPER15.
Delivered12,846 of 12,846
Lands intheir super box
Private links for Super Followers
The private sale, early access, the insiders' code: rows that open for the customers who followed the shop, and stay shut for everyone else.
On the shop's hub
Find the store
Book a fitting
The private saleSuper Followers
Shut, not hidden
One address, one page, one following — and all three of them the shop’s. How it works walks through building it, Super Follow is the button the third card is about, and pricing is what each plan costs. About .best covers the domain the paid plans come with.
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