Ahrefs contributors Si Quan Ong and Xibeijia Guan have published an article answering the question, ‘Does Ranking Higher on Google Mean You’ll Get Cited in AI Overviews?’.

They say, “If you rank well in traditional search results, does that mean you’ll get cited in AI Overviews?

We decided to find out.

Methodology

We pulled one million keywords that triggered AI Overviews and extracted the top three links cited within those AIOs: a total of 1.9 million citation links in our database.

We then analyzed the relationship between:

  • Where websites ranked in Google’s traditional top 10 results
  • Whether and where those same websites got cited in AI Overviews”.

Does Ranking Higher on Google Mean You’ll Get Cited in AI Overviews?

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