I am losing traffic to Google AI Overviews. What should I do?
Quick answer: If AI Overviews are cutting your clicks, shift from chasing clicks to winning citations and brand exposure: become the cited source in the Overview, target higher-intent and harder-to-summarize queries, strengthen brand and entity signals, and diversify into AI engines and channels where you can be recommended.
AI Overviews answer many queries without a click, so some traffic loss is structural. The response is not to fight the format but to be inside it - cited, named, and remembered - and to focus on queries that still drive visits.
Double down on answer-first content and schema to earn the citation, pursue bottom-funnel and comparison queries, and build brand demand so buyers seek you out directly.
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Should I block AI Overviews?
You can opt out via Google-Extended, but that removes your brand from the answers entirely - usually the wrong trade.What queries still convert?
High-intent, comparison, and brand queries where a click is more likely.Terms used in this answer are defined in the AI search glossary, and what AI search readiness means explains how GEO, AEO and SEO fit together.
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