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We lost half our organic traffic when Google rolled out AI Overviews; what are the best budget-friendly steps to recover our rankings?
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Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
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We lost half our organic traffic when Google rolled out AI Overviews; what are the best budget-friendly steps to recover our rankings?
3 real searches · 1 real-search pass
Google Search Central AI Overviews SEO guidance content best practices AI features 2026Google ↗
OBSERVEDInstruction
Google Search Console performance report AI Overviews clicks impressions documentationGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDReason
SEO studies AI Overviews organic click through rate impact 2025 2026Google ↗
OBSERVEDConsequence
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (3)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 3 of 3 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT3 real searches · gpt-6
Google Search Central AI Overviews SEO guidance content best practices AI features 2026 Google ↗
Google Search Console performance report AI Overviews clicks impressions documentation Google ↗
SEO studies AI Overviews organic click through rate impact 2025 2026 Google ↗
- Google's Guide to Optimizing for Generative AI Features on Google Search | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers · developers.google.com
- AI Features and Your Website | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers · developers.google.com
- Google AI Overviews drive 61% drop in organic CTR, 68% in paid · searchengineland.com
- Update: AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 58% · ahrefs.com
- What are impressions, position, and clicks? · support.google.com
- What are impressions, position, and clicks? · support.google.com
- New opportunities, control and insights for website owners · blog.google
Queries
3 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Google Search Central AI Overviews SEO guidance content best practices AI features 2026 OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Instruction | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Google Search Console performance report AI Overviews clicks impressions documentation OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
SEO studies AI Overviews organic click through rate impact 2025 2026 OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Consequence | — | — | 1x of 1 |