Ahrefs AI Visibility You Can Only See With Search Data
If Google is the highway, AI Overviews is the fast lane.— Your future traffic report
That chart is wild: out of 264M+ monthly prompts, Google AI Overviews alone grab 185M. Everything else—ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity—are fighting over scraps. If you want ridiculous prompt reach, you don’t start with chatbots. You start by owning the answers AI Overviews quote.
How to aim your content at AI Overviews
Turn key queries into H2 questions, then answer in 1–3 tight sentences. Add step-by-step lists, clear definitions, and cited sources so Google can safely quote you. Think: “answer first, fluff never.” You’re not writing for humans or bots alone; you’re writing to be copy‑pasted into that Overview box.
What the chart is screaming
- AI Overviews handle the majority of observed prompts by a huge margin
- AI Mode and every chatbot lag far behind individually
- Ranking in AI Overviews multiplies exposure across millions of similar prompts
- SEOs need to treat AI Overviews like the new page-one real estate
Brands quietly winning AI Overviews
HubSpot structures pillar pages with crisp, quotable definitions that slot neatly into Google AI Overviews for marketing queries.
NerdWallet builds Q&A-style comparison sections that Google can lift directly into AI Overviews for money and credit card searches.