How do you rank in ai overview?

there isn't a separate thing to opt into. google pulls AI overview sources from pages it has indexed and is allowed to show snippets from, and in practice they're mostly pages already ranking reasonably well for that query or close variants. so the practical bits: - answer the question plainly near the top of the section, then expand. the overview quotes passages, not whole pages - one question per heading, wording close to how people ask it - make sure you haven't got nosnippet or a tight max-snippet on those pages, that blocks it - keep facts specific and current, vague filler doesn't get cited tracking it is the annoying part. search console lumps it in with normal search, so you end up checking queries by hand.