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AI features and your website

Google Search Central Free Beginner

Google's own documentation on how pages appear in AI Overviews and AI Mode, which settles what is and is not required before you spend on a separate programme for it.

  • Google says AI Overviews and AI Mode need no special optimisation and have no additional requirements beyond normal Search.
  • To be shown as a supporting link a page must be indexed and eligible to appear with a snippet.
  • Traffic from AI features is counted in Search Console's Performance report under the Web search type.
  • No new machine-readable files, AI text files or special schema are needed; snippet controls such as nosnippet limit what is shown.
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