Google's AI Overviews now sit above the classic blue links. Getting summarised and cited there is the new top-of-page — and it rewards structured, answer-first content.
AI Overviews synthesise an answer from multiple sources and cite them, pushing traditional results down the page. If your content is structured to answer the query directly and is marked up clearly, you can be one of the cited sources in that summary.
Strong fundamentals: fast, crawlable, server-rendered pages, FAQ and How-To schema, content organised as clear questions and concise answers, and authoritative, well-linked information. These overlap heavily with classic SEO, plus the answer-first structure AEO emphasises.
Score your site on the structured-data and answerability signals Overviews favour.
Generate FAQ and How-To schema and restructure content into clear Q&A.
Track readiness as Google's AI surfaces keep changing.
Structure answers so Google pulls your page into the AI Overview.
Add FAQ schema so your concise answers are eligible for AI and rich results.
Fix crawlability and speed so your pages qualify in the first place.
It overlaps. AI Overviews still reward crawlable, fast, authoritative pages, but they especially favour answer-first structure and schema. AEO is SEO plus making your content easy for an AI to summarise and cite.
FAQPage, HowTo, Organization, and Product are high-leverage. The AI-Readiness Audit checks which you have and generates the ones you're missing.
Run the free AI-Readiness Audit. It scores your site across the signals these engines use — structured data, answerability, crawlability, and more — and gives you the top fixes ranked by impact.
Run the free AI-Readiness Audit and get the structured-data fixes that make you eligible.