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How to rank in AI Overviews

Google says there is nothing extra to do. To be shown as a link in an AI Overview, a page has to be indexed and able to show in Google Search with a snippet. No special file, no special markup.

Traditional SEO earns a place in a list of links. AI visibility earns a place in the answer itself. Both depend on a site machines can read.

Is traditional SEO still relevant?

Yes, but it's no longer enough on its own. AI summaries now sit above the traditional results, so your site has to work for both.

So the choice comes down to four questions a machine asks about your site. You can answer all four yourself, today, in about fifteen minutes.

One robots.txt name does less than most owners think. Blocking Google-Extended keeps your pages out of Gemini apps, but Google says it "does not impact a site's inclusion in Google Search." AI Overviews draw on the pages Google Search has indexed.

Whether Google has actually indexed your pages is one of the 24 criteria: "Actually crawled and indexed."

The $99 report reads every page on your site, grades all 24, and tells you what to do on each one.

The free scan runs 11 automated checks on one page, free, in 30 seconds, with no signup.

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