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AI Overview Glossary
Plain-English explainers for every concept the AI Overview Checker tests for. Quoted from Google's documentation, debugged from real customer sites, written for people who have to ship the fix.
Start here
The big picture, plus the eight myths to ignore.
The Google AI Overview myths SEOs keep getting wrong
The myths SEOs keep getting wrong
AI Overview vs AI Mode
Same eligibility, different surfaces
Snippet directives
The meta tags that control what Google can show in AI Overviews.
What is the nosnippet directive?
The silent killer for AI Overview eligibility
The max-snippet meta tag
Why max-snippet:-1 is the right default
The max-image-preview meta tag
Enable large image previews for AI features
Indexing and crawling
How Google decides which URLs are eligible to be cited.
noindex and AI Overviews
The most absolute exclusion directive
robots.txt, Googlebot, and AI Overviews
Which Google bot actually controls AI Overviews
Canonical tags and AI Overviews
Pick which URL AI Overviews should cite
Content quality and surface formats
Schema, author signals, video, and page experience.
Structured data and AI Overviews
What schema does and does not do for AI features
Author, date, and first-hand experience signals
Who, when, and how - what Google looks for
Video and AI Overviews
Make embedded video eligible for AI Overviews
Core Web Vitals and AI Overviews
Soft signal, but worth the work
AI visibility and answer engines
AEO, GEO, and how to measure your brand across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
Earning citations in AI answers, and what Google actually says works.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
Optimizing to be cited inside AI-generated answers, and how it differs from SEO.
AI visibility
How often your brand shows up in AI assistant answers, and how to measure it.
AI citation tracking
Monitoring which AI answers cite your site as a source.
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