Eligibility check
Indexed, snippet-eligible and reachable.
Indexing, snippet controls such as nosnippet, robots rules, rendering and the Search generative AI setting in Search Console, checked page by page.
AI Overview optimisation built on what Google publishes.
Google says AI Overviews need no special markup. We work on what does count: helpful pages, snippet eligibility, technical access and honest reporting.
AI Overviews and AI Mode in Google Search. No appearance or citation is promised.
In short
What AI Overview optimisation means here.
AI Overview optimisation is the work of making a page eligible and useful enough for Google to link it as a source in AI Overviews and AI Mode, using the same fundamentals Google applies to every Search result.
Google's guidance is plain. A linked page must be indexed and eligible to appear with a snippet, and no special markup or AI file is needed. What remains is the quality of the page and the honesty of the reporting.
What the service includes
Eligibility, quality
and reporting.
The work follows Google's documentation. Nothing here depends on a trick or a special tag.
The AI Search servicePages worth linking
Helpful, original and easy to scan.
Improve the page that should answer the query, with first-hand detail, clear headings and the follow-up questions a searcher asks next.
Honest AI feature reporting
Figures labelled for what they are.
Web totals that include AI features and Google's Generative AI report, reviewed by our team. Citation candidates, labelled as an inference, can be set up during onboarding.
How it works
How to rank in AI Overviews,
the honest version.
There is no separate AI ranking to chase. These four steps follow Google's own guidance.
How delivery worksConfirm eligibility
Check that Google can crawl, render and index each page, and that no snippet control or site setting excludes it.
Find the queries that matter
Read Search Console for the queries behind your pages, then check by hand which ones show an AI Overview.
Improve the source page
Make the page that should be linked the most helpful answer available, with original detail a summary cannot replace.
Report with labels
Keep Web totals, generative AI impressions and citation candidates apart, and say which figures are inferred.
Measurement
What Search Console can show, and what it cannot.
The standard Performance report folds AI feature traffic into Web totals. We label every inference as one.
Measured today
- Clicks, impressions and positions from Search Console, where AI Overview and AI Mode traffic is counted inside Web totalsRunning today
- Search Console's Generative AI performance report, reviewed by the Ciny team where your property shows itDelivered by the Ciny team
- Citation candidates: queries whose Search Console pattern suggests an Overview link, each checked by handSet up during onboarding
Not claimed
- An AI Overview appearance, citation or position for any query
- A measured AI Overview rate or zero-click share, which needs reporting that is still planned
- Daily AI Mode tracking. Generative AI data is read from Google's report, not synced.
- That any markup or file unlocks inclusion. Google says no special one is needed.
How it differs
AI Overviews, SEO,
AEO and GEO.
Google treats AI Overviews as part of Search. That shapes how this work differs from the rest.
Read the AI search guideAI OverviewsvsSEO
Google says the same fundamentals apply, so this is SEO with closer attention to snippet eligibility, page quality and how AI feature traffic is reported.
AI OverviewsvsAEO
AEO structures answers for any question-led result. AI Overview work is narrower: one Google feature, and reading its traffic correctly in Search Console.
AI OverviewsvsGEO
GEO spans engines with their own crawlers and indexes. AI Overviews link to pages from Google's index, so Google's eligibility rules and reports set what you can check.
Evidence
Ruh AI's record, read with care.
Ciny reads Ruh AI's Search Console data, including Web totals that contain AI feature traffic. Read its lead record as organic search evidence, not as an AI Overview appearance count.
Ruh AI
Organic leads, with the evidence attached.
Weekly organic leads rose from 6 in early July to 20 in the week of 24 August 2026. August paid spend was $0.
- Weekly organic leads
- 6 to 20
- Evidence
- First-party
How do you rank in AI Overviews?
There is no separate AI Overview ranking to target. Google says a linked page must be indexed and eligible to show with a snippet, and the rest is ordinary Search quality. We work on both and never promise an appearance.
How do I optimize for AI Overviews?
Start with what Google names: let it crawl and index the page, avoid snippet controls that exclude it, and make the content helpful and original. Then check the Search generative AI setting in Search Console.
Can you track when we appear in AI Overviews?
Only partly. Search Console counts AI Overview traffic inside Web totals, and Google's Generative AI performance report shows impressions where it is available. During onboarding we can set up a check that flags likely citations as candidates, and each one is checked by hand.
Do AI Overviews need special schema or an llms.txt file?
No. Google says no special markup or AI file is required for its AI features. Structured data should describe what is visible on the page, which is good practice for every result.
Why did our average position move with no ranking change?
In Search Console, a link inside an AI Overview takes the position of the Overview itself. When Overviews appear or move, average position can shift. We compare like-for-like periods before suggesting a cause.
Related services
AI Overviews and the rest
of AI search.
Check your pages
against Google's guidance.
Send the queries that matter most. We check eligibility and reporting first, then agree what to improve.