Research Grid AI Overview Report
Research Grid AI Overview Report
Google's AI Overviews aren't a future possibility, they are the present reality, shaping user decisions at a massive scale. When a brand is absent in these answers, it silently loses authority, traffic, and revenue to competitors who are.
Introducing the AI Overview (AIO) Report within Research Grid, your dedicated command center to navigate this new landscape. This dedicated report tracks your brand's presence and influence directly within Google's AI Overviews, moving beyond traditional rankings. It instantly reveals where you are mentioned, cited, or missing compared to competitors, providing a clear roadmap to protect your brand equity and capture critical visibility in the world's largest answer engine.
Note: Research Grid and Rank Intelligence utilize different data update frequencies, so their AI Overview results are not directly comparable. The AIO status displayed in Research Grid reflects the data available at the specific moment it is checked, whereas Rank Intelligence provides a weekly snapshot.
AI Overview Report Use Cases
- Protect Equity: Find where you’re mentioned but not cited to strengthen content and earn authoritative links.
- Capture Visibility: Discover where you’re cited but not named to optimize for brand recognition.
- Close Gaps: Identify keywords where competitors appear and you don’t to prioritize your strategy.
- Prove ROI: Use trend charts to report on monthly progress and attribute gains to your work.
Start AIO Report
To get started, enter a brand or product name and website to analyze. Then, select Generate Report to uncover insights.
AI Overviews Report
AIO Report Input
Your Own/Competitor: Enter a brand, product, and website to analyze its AIO search performance.
Competitor: Add competitor brands or websites for a comparative analysis.
Country: Select a country to filter the data by geographic market.
Date: Select a month and year for the report. The default view shows the most recently ended calendar month.
Filter by Keyword: Select from the options in the dropdown to filter by specific keyword to understand the domains' mentions and citations for that topic. Options include Contains, Is, Isn't, Does not contain, Starts with, and Ends with.
AIO Report Summary & Graph
Overview Summary View
AIO Mentions: The total number of times your brand, product, or service was referenced in an AI's response. These are brand-aware but do not include a clickable link.
AIO Citations: The total number of times your website URL was provided as a clickable source link within an AI's response.
AIO Trigger Rate: The percent of keywords the entered domain is ranking for in Research Grid Domain, that also trigger an AI Overview.
Example: 803 / 6637 = 12%
Example: 803 / 6637 = 12%
Mentions & Citations Trend Graph
This graph tracks the volume of your Mentions and Citations over the selected month. Add a competitor to the analysis to see their data plotted on the same graph. Instantly compare your trends side-by-side with theirs.
AIO Report-Keyword Table
Keyword: The specific search term analyzed.
Volume: The average search volume a keyword is searched for per month.
Web Rank: The ranking position of your website for this keyword in organic search results.
Your Domain's SERP Rank: Your domain's ranking on the traditional SERP.
Your AIO Mention: A checkmark (✓) or an (X) indicating if your brand or product name was mentioned in the AIO result for this keyword.
Your AIO Citation: A checkmark (✓) or an (X) indicating if your website's URL was directly cited as a source within the AIO result.
Competitors Mentioned in AIO: A checkmark (✓) or an (X) indicating if a competitor's brand or product was mentioned in the AIO result.
Competitors Cited in AIO: A checkmark (✓) or an (X) indicating if a competitor's URL was cited as a source within the AIO result.
AIO Content: Clicking on "view" displays the actual text or summary of the AIO result generated for this specific keyword.
Filter the table for All, Only Mentioned, Only Cited, Both Cited and Mentioned, Lost Mentions, and Lost Citations.
AIO Most Cited Domains Table
This table displays which sites received the most citations within the AIO search results that includes the count of keywords.
Domain: The website URL (e.g., competitor.com, reddit.com) that was cited.
Keyword Count: The number of unique keywords for which the Domain was cited in the AIO search results.
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