What Makes Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity Cite Your Brand
Consistent Person/Organization schema + sameAs graph. AI models need to resolve who you are.
One canonical source per topic beats expertise scattered across 20 thin pages.
Term → definition → context → evidence. Clean definitions get extracted; loose prose doesn't.
FAQ schema, short declarative sentences, tables. Machine-extractable format.
Independent third-party sources citing the same claim reinforces weight. Not backlinks — claim citations.
RAG-based AI models weight recent content. Evergreen is dead; freshness matters.
Author, date, methodology. Clear attribution lets AI trace credibility.
AI Overviews don't rank pages. They rank sources.