Why it matters
To appear as a supporting link in AI Overviews or AI Mode a page must be indexed and eligible to be shown with a snippet, with no additional technical requirements. AI features are built on Google's core ranking systems and its index, so what works for web results works for them.
How to meet it
Apply the rest of this kit, do not block snippets (DEV-IDX-05), and keep the Search Console generative AI setting on include unless the site is excluded on purpose (DEV-IDX-10). When a page never shows up as a source, check indexing, snippet rules and that setting first.
How to test it
URL Inspection shows the page indexed, its robots rules contain no nosnippet, and the Generative AI performance report shows impressions.
How Regensbot covers it
Decided from one URL.
An audit reads the response, the headers, the HTML, robots.txt, the sitemaps and the structured data, and the finding shows the evidence it saw.
Sources
Google documents02
- 01AI features and your websiteGoogle Search Central (opens in a new tab)
- 02Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google SearchGoogle Search Central (opens in a new tab)
Claims in the knowledge base05
- D2-C074SourceControlling indexingGoogle's documentation
- D1-C038ConsistentHow Search works and where's AI?Shown on screen
- D1-C051ConfirmedHow Search works and where's AI?Shown on screen
- D2-C601ConfirmedFocusing on Internationalisation and LocalisationSaid on stage
- D2-C730n/aHow does the index look like?The author's interpretation
Claim IDs refer to the Search Central Live 2026 knowledge base. The knowledge base (opens in a new tab)
- Confirmed
- Google's documentation states the same thing.
- Consistent
- Google's documentation supports it without stating it.
- Source
- The claim is the cited document itself.
- n/a
- Nothing to verify: a quotation, framing, opinion or analysis.