AI Overviews

AI Overviews are the summary box above Google's organic results. They grew out of Google's Search Generative Experience experiment, and they appear only when Google's systems decide a summary will help. When one shows up, it answers the question before anyone scrolls to your listing.

Getting cited in an AI Overview

Google's position is plain. If a page is indexed and eligible to show a snippet, it can be a supporting link. No extra file or schema is required. In practice, the pages that get linked answer the exact question, or one of its fan-out sub-questions, clearly and early.

• Keep key pages indexable and quotable. nosnippet, data-nosnippet and a tight max-snippet limit what AI features can use, and they shrink your regular snippet too.
• Lead with the answer, then the detail.
• Cover the questions people ask next, under their own headings.

Measuring AI Overviews

Search Console reports clicks and impressions from AI features, but not which competitors were named next to you. Elite Answers checks whether an Overview appears for each tracked prompt, stores it with its links, and scores your brand. No Overview means no visibility for that prompt, which is worth knowing too. Our methodology explains how it's counted.