AI Overview tracker

Track Google AI Overviews and AI Mode for every keyword you rank for

Ranking first no longer means being seen first. WPCentrify checks Google's AI answer for each keyword you track and shows whether it cites your website, and every website it cites instead.

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Included on Studio and up, or with Search Growth Starter on Solo. Rank checks and AI Mode checks use AI credits.

Updated 9 November 2026

The WPCentrify Where you rank screen for an example plumbing website, with how many Google AI Overviews and AI Mode answers cite it and the websites cited instead

What is an AI Overview tracker?

An AI Overview tracker checks the searches you care about for Google's AI Overview, the AI-written answer shown above the ordinary results, and records whether it cites your website and which websites it cites instead.

WPCentrify reads the AI Overview every time it checks your rankings, so you see your position and your place in Google's AI answer side by side, for every WordPress site you manage. It also asks Google's AI Mode when you want to know what Google says in its fuller AI answers.

Most rank trackers stop at a yes or no for the AI Overview. WPCentrify keeps the websites Google cites, in Google's order, with their pages, so you can see exactly who is taking the attention you used to get from ranking first.

The AI Overview tracker at a glance

Every rank check reads the AI Overview for each keyword.
Whether the AI Overview cites your website, and up to ten websites it cites, in Google's order, with their pages and titles.
Google AI Mode asked when you press Ask AI Mode, for up to 100 keywords at a time.
AI Overview and AI Mode kept apart, so you can see each.
Keywords filtered by cited, not cited and no AI answer.
Every cited website in one list, searchable and sortable.
CSV and a branded PDF for client reports.
Uses AI credits; reading, filtering and exporting are free.

Google says there are no special optimizations needed to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode: a page must be indexed and eligible to show with a snippet. That makes the gap between your ranking and your AI citations the thing worth watching.

See which keywords cite you, and which do not

The keyword list gains an AI Overview column and an AI Mode column, so a keyword where you rank third but the AI answer cites three other websites stands out at once.

Filter the list to the keywords where you are not cited and start with the most searched. Press a keyword to see the websites its AI Overview cites, in the order Google shows them, with the page and its title.

Cited, not cited or no AI answer, for every tracked keyword
Your position beside your AI citation
The cited websites and pages in Google's order
A results page already read that day is reused at no extra cost

A WPCentrify keyword list filtered to keywords where the Google AI Overview does not cite the example website, with its position and the websites cited instead — Keywords where the AI Overview does not cite the site. Example data.

Every website Google's AI answers cite, in one list

One list shows every website cited across your keywords, in AI Overviews, AI Mode or both, so you can see which competitors and which guides Google leans on.

Show you and your competitors, or everyone else. Sort by the number of keywords, by the searches behind them or by name, and press a website to see the searches it is cited for. That is the shortest route to knowing what to write next.

AI Overview, AI Mode or both
You and your competitors, or everyone else
Sorted by keywords, searches or name
Press a website to see its searches

The WPCentrify list of every website cited in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode for an example website's keywords, with keywords, monthly searches and where each is cited — Every website cited in Google's AI answers. Example data.

What you get

Built for people who report on rankings

The AI answer now sits above the result your client is paying you to improve. These are the parts that make it reportable.

AI Overview with every rank check

Nothing extra to press: each rank check reads the AI Overview for the keyword as well as the position.

AI Mode on demand

Ask AI Mode for your most searched keywords, or the ones you tick, up to 100 at a time.

Who is cited instead

Every website the AI answer cites, not only whether you are among them.

Honest "not available"

A search AI Mode will not answer in that language says not available, never not cited.

Filters that match the work

Cited, not cited or no AI answer, so the gaps are one press away.

Branded exports

A CSV with who each answer cites, and a rankings PDF that ends with the AI section, under your brand.

AI Overview, AI Mode and the ordinary results

Google now answers the same search in three places. Each needs its own measure, because a page can do well in one and be absent from another.

Descriptions of AI Overviews and AI Mode follow Google's own documentation on AI features in Search.
Where Google answers	What it is	What WPCentrify records
The ordinary results	The list of links people have always seen.	Your position, by city and device, checked daily or weekly.
AI Overview	An AI-written summary above the results for some searches, with links to the websites it drew on.	Whether it appears, whether it cites you, and up to ten websites it cites, in order.
AI Mode	Google's fuller AI answer, for questions that need more reasoning or comparison.	Whether it cites you and the websites it cites, when you ask it.

How to track AI Overviews for your keywords

You need a website connected to WPCentrify and the keywords you want to rank for.

Add your keywords
Add the searches you care about in Where you rank, or bring them in from Keyword ideas.
Check your rankings
Run a rank check. WPCentrify records your position and the AI Overview for each keyword.
Ask AI Mode
Press Ask AI Mode to put your most searched keywords, or the ones you tick, to Google's AI Mode.
Read the AI section
The In Google's AI answers card shows how many AI answers cite you and who is cited most instead.
Work on the gaps
Filter to keywords where you are not cited and improve those pages first, then check again.

How to get cited in Google AI Overviews

Nobody can promise an AI Overview citation, and Google says there is no special markup or file that earns one. What the pages it cites tend to share is plain.

Be indexable and snippet-eligible. A page Google cannot index, or that blocks snippets, cannot be cited. The SEO audit finds pages Google is told to skip.
Answer the question in the first sentence. Put the question in a heading and the answer straight under it. The AEO audit shows which pages already do this.
Cover what the cited pages cover. Read the pages Google cites for your keyword, then plan a better page with a content brief.
Earn trust the usual way. Links from respected websites still matter; backlink monitoring shows where you stand.

To see whether assistants beyond Google name your business, use AI brand visibility for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity.

What it does not do

Promise citations. It measures where Google's AI answers cite you; it does not change what Google shows.
Ask AI Mode by itself. AI Mode is asked when you press Ask AI Mode, so you decide when to spend credits.
Track other assistants here. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity are tracked in AI brand visibility.

Answers

Questions about tracking AI Overviews

What people ask before they turn it on.

An AI Overview tracker checks your keywords for Google's AI Overview, the AI-written answer above the ordinary results, and records whether it cites your website and which websites it cites instead. WPCentrify does this with every rank check, for every WordPress site you manage.

Yes. Press Ask AI Mode to put your most searched keywords, or the ones you tick, to Google's AI Mode, up to 100 at a time. AI Mode results are kept apart from AI Overview results so you can see each.

Not necessarily. The websites an AI Overview cites are not always the ones ranking at the top, which is why WPCentrify shows your position and your AI citation side by side.

Yes. For each keyword you see up to ten websites the AI Overview cites, in Google's order, with the page and its title, and one list shows every cited website across all your keywords.

It means AI Mode would not answer that search in that language. WPCentrify says not available rather than not cited, so a gap in Google's coverage is never counted against you.

Google includes clicks from AI Overviews and AI Mode in the Search Console Performance report under the Web search type, but it does not show them apart from ordinary results. A tracker shows which searches have an AI answer and who it cites.

Make sure the page can be indexed and shown with a snippet, answer the question in the first sentence under a question heading, cover what the cited pages cover, and earn links from respected websites. Then check again to see whether it moved.

Yes. The CSV lists who each AI answer cites, and the rankings PDF ends with the AI section, under your own brand with White label or under WPCentrify's.

Rank checks and AI Mode checks use AI credits from your workspace balance, and a results page already read that day is reused at no extra cost. Reading, filtering and exporting are free. Each plan includes AI credit every month: $1 on Solo, $10 on Studio, $30 on Agency and $75 on Scale, and you can buy more in $15 packs.

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