AI Overview readiness starts with ordinary Google Search eligibility.

Technical prerequisites

The page needs a public successful response, Googlebot access, rendered primary content, index and snippet eligibility, canonical consistency, crawlable internal discovery, and mobile parity. Eligibility does not guarantee selection.

Useful source value

Pages are stronger candidates when they add first-hand evidence, original data, methods, examples, tools, current facts, or specific decision criteria. Commodity summaries and fan-out pages add little reason to select the source.

Measurement boundary

When available, Search Console generative reporting must be labeled by the exact features and dimensions it includes. Dated manual or authorized observations can measure a sampled supporting-link panel, not universal visibility.

Primary guidance used for this guide