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What are the most common technical SEO errors that prevent a website from being cited in ChatGPT and Google AI overviews

ChatGPTgpt-63 queries11/1/2026
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

SEED QUERY
What are the most common technical SEO errors that prevent a website from being cited in ChatGPT and Google AI overviews
3 real searches · 1 real-search pass
official Google Search Central AI Overviews technical requirements crawling indexing snippets robots structured data documentationGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
OpenAI ChatGPT search crawler OAI-SearchBot robots.txt documentation publishersGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
Google Search Central JavaScript SEO rendering crawling indexing documentationGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDInstruction

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)
Short factOther / navigational67%ComparisonConsequenceReasonDefinitionInstruction33%Yes / no

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
official Google Search Central AI Overviews technical requirements crawling indexing snippets robots structured data documentation Google ↗
OpenAI ChatGPT search crawler OAI-SearchBot robots.txt documentation publishers Google ↗
Google Search Central JavaScript SEO rendering crawling indexing documentation Google ↗

Queries

3 queries · click a column to sort
Query / typeSearchIntentQuery classRouting formatClusterFreq ↓Weight
official Google Search Central AI Overviews technical requirements crawling indexing snippets robots structured data documentation
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Other / navigational——1x
of 1
OpenAI ChatGPT search crawler OAI-SearchBot robots.txt documentation publishers
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Other / navigational——1x
of 1
Google Search Central JavaScript SEO rendering crawling indexing documentation
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Instruction——1x
of 1