How To Track And Rank for AI Overviews / Mode Using ChatGPT’s Analyzer

You can now check whether your site shows up in Google AI Overviews  and what to do if it doesn’t. Here’s how.

Why You Should Care About AI Overviews and AI Mode

Google’s AI Overviews are changing how users see search results and how sites win visibility.

If you’re serious about SEO after 2025, you can’t ignore Google’s AI Overviews and its AI Mode for browsing. 

These new layers in search results aim to provide instant, generative answers to users, before they even click on anything. This means fewer clicks for everyone… unless you show up in the AI Overview.

And…you now have a free tool to check that!

Meet the AI Overviews Analyzer: a GPT that analyzes which queries are triggering AI Overviews, if your site ranks in them, and how likely it is to appear there in the future.

What Is the AI Overviews Analyzer?

It’s a smart way to reverse-engineer Google’s AI answers.

The AI Overviews Analyzer is a GPT that inspects Google’s search engine results pages (SERPs) for a given keyword or set of keywords. It:

• Detects AI Overview appearances and retrieval frequency.
• Estimates the percentage chance of it appearing.
• Checks if a specific URL or domain is part of that AI answer.
• Provides custom recommendations to help your page break into AI Overviews and AI Mode.

This tool doesn’t guess because it bases its insights on real-time live SERP data and references official guidelines like Google’s documentation and latest technical analyses like iPullRank’s deep dive.

How Does Google’s AI Mode Work, Really?

It’s a context-aware browsing experience that favors high-quality, helpful sources.

AI Mode is an enhanced experience in Google Search where users can dive deeper into generative answers, source citations, and topic overviews. Google’s documentation describes AI Overviews as “designed to help people quickly understand topics” but only if your content meets certain quality and relevance criteria.

Your content may qualify to be featured if:

• It aligns with Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines (E-E-A-T)
• It answers search intent directly, clearly, and with depth
• It is formatted in a way that is easy to parse and summarize.

This is why optimizing for AI Mode is not just about SEO tricks, it’s about structural and semantic clarity.

How to Check If Your Site Is in AI Overviews

Run your keywords through the analyzer and check your domain’s inclusion.

Here’s how I use the AI Overviews Analyzer to audit a site’s AI presence:

1. Enter a set of target keywords — both informational and transactional
2. Paste your domain or specific URL into the tool
3. Review:

• • Does AI Overviews appear for each query?
  • The percentage likelihood of AI Overviews triggering.
  • Does your content is referenced or linked in the AI Overview?

Pro tip: Start with long-tail, high-intent keywords. That’s where AI Overviews often appear most frequently.

What to Do If You’re Not Showing in AI Overviews

Focus on helpful content, structured formats, and E-E-A-T signals.

If your site isn’t showing in AI Overviews yet, don’t panic. Most content isn’t, but you can take targeted action.

Here are my go-to recommendations, based on the Analyzer’s suggestions and Google’s own documentation:

1. Reformat for clarity and completeness

• Use clear, H1/H2/H3 headings that match common search intents
• Include summaries, FAQs, and bullet points to support chunkable reading

2. Strengthen topical authority

• Build internal links across related content
• Add semantically related subtopics to existing posts

3. Improve E-E-A-T signals

• Add real author bios and credentials
• Cite trustworthy sources and include external links when relevant

4. Optimize for crawlability and markup

• Use schema where possible (FAQ, HowTo, Article)
• Keep pages technically sound and easy to index.