AI Overview optimisation Give Google’s AI a reason to cite you.

AI Overview optimisation is making sure Google can find, read and link to your business when it writes an AI Overview or an AI Mode answer. Google says there are no special requirements beyond normal SEO: a page must be indexed and eligible to show a snippet, and your site mustn’t be switched out in Search Console. The work is making sure nothing is blocking you, keeping your Business Profile accurate, writing pages that answer customers’ real questions, and measuring AI impressions in Search Console.

Yes. Get Found is based at 39 Foregate St, Worcester, with a second office in Stockport, and we work with businesses across the UK. AI Overview optimisation is part of our AI SEO service. Every project starts with a free visibility audit, which checks where you appear on Google, on Maps and in the main AI tools, and there are no long contracts.

No. Google says you don’t need to create new machine-readable files, AI text files or markup to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, and there’s no special schema.org structured data to add. Its generative AI guide says Google Search doesn’t use llms.txt files, and creating one will neither harm nor help. Structured data is still useful for rich results, as long as it matches what’s on the page.

Not as a documented rule. Google says AI Overviews and AI Mode are rooted in its core ranking systems, so strong standing in ordinary search is still the foundation, but they may also run several related searches behind the scenes. In July 2025 Ahrefs found 76% of cited pages ranked in the top ten for the search; its March 2026 update put it at 37.9%, though Ahrefs changed its method in between, so the figures aren’t directly comparable.

It can help. Google lists keeping your Business Profile up to date among the basics for its AI features, and says Business Profiles can help your products and services be visible in AI responses and other Google Search results. Google doesn’t say your profile is where AI Overview text comes from. Separately, Google’s Gemini app uses public Google Maps information such as addresses, ratings and opening hours.

Not inside it. Google says ads can show above or below an AI Overview in all markets where AI Overviews are available, but ads inside AI Overviews are offered only in a list of countries that, as of 28 September 2026, doesn’t include the UK. Inside the summary, the links are chosen by Google’s systems, not bought.

No, and nobody honestly can. Google says indexing and serving aren’t guaranteed, that AI Overviews are only shown when its systems decide they add something and often don’t trigger, and that AI Overviews and AI Mode may show different links. What we can do is remove anything shutting you out, give Google pages worth citing and show you honestly what changes.

Mainly in Search Console. Google says that since 31 August 2026 its generative AI performance report shows impressions from AI Overviews and AI Mode, broken down by page, country, device and date, and AI feature traffic is also counted in the normal Performance report under the Web search type. Search Console doesn’t show who else was linked, so we also check a fixed list of your key searches at regular intervals and note which businesses appear.