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How to rank in Google AI Overviews.

AI Overviews quote passages, not pages. The on-page work is to ship clean H2 questions with direct-answer paragraphs underneath, every time.

Coming online in 2026Notes filed April 2026

Google AI Overviews compose their answer from passages extracted across the top organic results, weighted by how cleanly each page answers the user's specific question. The on-page formatting that earns the box: an H2 phrased as the literal question, a 40 to 80 word direct-answer paragraph immediately under it, and a follow-up paragraph that adds the operator-specific detail. Pages that lead with throat-clearing rarely make the cut. The longform, with our AI Overviews passage template and the per-vertical question stack, ships in May 2026.

While you wait

Coming online in 2026. The roadmap below is committed, the writing is queued.

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