Insights on AEO strategy, AI-powered search, and how brands stay visible when answers replace links.
Getting a brand mentioned in Google AI Overviews requires indexed, useful pages, credible supporting evidence, carefully chosen queries, and repeated testing that separates mentions, citations, recommendations, and owned-source appearances.
Googlebot is Google Search’s documented crawler, while Google-Extended is a robots.txt control for specified AI training and grounding uses of crawled content, including documented Gemini-related applications.