Kail Lennard Patruck

Vibe-Coded Websites and SEO: Separating the Selection Effect from the Treatment Effect

2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The analysis finds that observable site characteristics (schema markup, XML sitemaps, rendering mode, backlinks, and domain authority) differ systematically between AI-built and traditional sites. A descriptive Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, parameterized from aggregate statistics reported in the …