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AI Overview vs AI Mode: What's Different for Indexing
What Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode share, where they differ, and why both begin with the same requirement: an indexed page.
Indexing First: Why AI Overviews and AI Mode Only Cite Indexed Pages
AI Overviews and AI Mode cite pages from Google's index. If a page is not indexed, it cannot be cited, whatever else you optimize.
How to Check If Your Site Appears in AI Overviews and AI Mode
Three practical ways to check your AI Overview and AI Mode presence, what each one can and cannot tell you, and why the index comes first.
AI Search Indexing: How ChatGPT Search and Perplexity Discover Pages
How ChatGPT Search and Perplexity find and fetch pages, which crawlers do what, and why ordinary indexing still carries most of the weight.
Google AI Mode: What It Is and How Your Pages Get Cited
What Google AI Mode is, how it selects the pages it cites, and why an indexed page is the entry requirement for appearing at all.
