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AI Overviews and your site: what Google says to do

Google's own guidance for appearing in AI features is short: the same fundamentals, applied to pages worth citing.

Author: HD5 min read

Table of contents
  1. Key takeaways
  2. Nothing separate to sign up for
  3. What that means for a page
  4. Watch who else is cited
  5. See it on your own site
  6. Sources

Nothing separate to sign up for#

Google's page on AI features states that there are no additional requirements to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, and no special optimizations needed. The usual search fundamentals apply.

What that means for a page#

  • Check the page is not blocked from Google by mistake.
  • Answer the question directly near the top.
  • Use structured data that matches what is visible.

Watch who else is cited#

Rivals shows the sites competing for the same searches, so you see who is taking the spot.

See it on your own site#

The free website check reads a site you name and reports what holds its pages back, with no account and no card. It changes nothing on your site.

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Sources#

What is AEO? Answer engine optimization, without the hypeAEO means being the page an AI answer quotes. Most of it is search work you already know, done with more care.Search and AI answersHD5 min readOctober 16, 2026Generative engine optimization: where the term came from and what holds upGEO was named in a 2023 research paper. Here is what the paper tested, and what a site owner can take from it.Search and AI answersHD5 min readOctober 16, 2026How to get cited by ChatGPT search: start with one line in robots.txtOpenAI documents which crawler feeds ChatGPT's search answers. If it is blocked, nothing else matters.Search and AI answersHD4 min readOctober 16, 2026