Track whether Google’s AI Overviews mention you
Every week Orbit asks Google your buyers’ questions and records whether the AI Overview and AI Mode name your business, cite your pages, or cite someone else.
Definition
What are Google AI Overviews?
AI Overviews are the AI-written answers Google shows above the regular results for many searches, with links to the pages it drew on. AI Mode is Google’s separate tab where people have a whole conversation with its AI.
Why they change searchHow Orbit tracks Google’s AI answers
Your buyers’ questions, asked of Google every week.
1. Both surfaces
AI Overview and AI Mode, question by question.
For every tracked question, see whether Google showed an AI answer, whether it named you and whether it linked to your page, in both the AI Overview and AI Mode.
- AI Overview
- AI Mode
- Every week
2. Citations
See whose pages Google cites.
The sites Google’s AI answers lean on for your questions, yours included, so you know which pages to beat.
- Cited sites
- Your pages
- Competitors
3. Over time
Watch it change week by week.
Google’s AI answers shift often. Weekly scans of the same questions show real movement, so you can see when a page you published started being cited.
- Weekly scans
- Every answer kept
- Dated changes
Google now answers before it lists. Make sure the answer includes you.
AI Overviews
Included in Ascend and Zenith
AI Overview tracking is part of AI visibility, with ChatGPT and Gemini on the same questions.
from$49a site, a month
Why AI Overviews change search
The answer now sits above the results.
Fewer clicks below the answer
When an AI Overview appears, many people read the answer and stop there. Being cited in it can be worth more than ranking just below it.
Ranking well isn’t always enough
Google’s AI answer doesn’t always cite the top result. Orbit shows whether it cites you for each of your questions, and if not, who it cites instead.
One weekly scan for every assistant
AI Overview tracking runs on the same weekly questions as ChatGPT and Gemini in AI visibility, so you see Google next to the other assistants.
AI Overview tracking is one part of Orbit, the website growth platform for agencies.
See how Orbit helps sites get found in AI searchFor agencies
Clients see AI Overviews above their rankings every day. Show them whether Google’s AI names them, who it cites instead, and what it would take to be the source.
Questions about AI Overviews
An AI Overview is the short AI answer Google shows above the regular results. AI Mode is a separate tab where people have a whole conversation with Google’s AI. Orbit tracks both.
No, Google shows one only for some searches. Orbit records when a question got no AI answer at all, so a missing answer isn’t mistaken for being left out.
Yes. For every tracked question Orbit shows whether the AI Overview linked to one of your pages, and which one. You can also ask Orbit to check a question live.
Ascend and Zenith, as part of AI visibility.
See Google’s AI answers for your site
Book a demo to see how Orbit fits the way you work and where it can help. Or scan a site now, free and without an account.