CEOs Demand Accountability For Website Value

Executives and CEOs should ask ten precise questions to treat company websites as capital assets rather than cost centers, the article argues. It cites examples like an audited multinational losing over $5 million monthly in paid search to compensate for indexation errors and warns that AI-driven generative search now ties discoverability to structured, machine-readable web assets.
Key Points
- 1Treat websites as capital assets and measure digital yield per visit or impression
- 2Prevent silent value leakage that forces higher paid spend and accrues technical debt
- 3Establish ownership, governance, and a Web Effectiveness Score linking web KPIs to ROIC
Scoring Rationale
Actionable, industry-wide governance guidance with AI-search urgency, but primarily opinion-based and lacks peer-reviewed substantiation or supporting data.
Sources
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