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- Many themes are bloated with scripts
- That kills site speed
- And ruins your SEO
Test every theme with PageSpeed Insights.
WordPress creates Author, Date, and Tag archives by default. That means automatic duplicate content.
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WordPress internal search URLs get indexed by default and they’re SEO dead weight.
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Internal linking isn't just for navigation, it helps in AI inclusion too.
Pages with smart internal links + meaningful anchor text are more likely to appear in AI Overviews.
Structure matters.
Did you know? AI Overviews extract fragments, not full pages.
So format correctly:
- Use meaningful subheadings
- Structure your content cleanly
- Use semantic HTML
Let your best bits rank on their own.
Google’s AI loves clean schema.
FAQ, HowTo, and Product schema directly improve your AI Overview visibility.
Messy or missing schema = lower RAG score = no citations.
AI Overviews can’t open tabs or run JavaScript.
If your content isn’t visible in the HTML, it’s invisible to AI.
Show important info in plain HTML
Don’t hide it behind fancy UI
GenAI Overviews don’t want robotic content.
They prioritize content that feels like a real conversation.
Want to rank? Write the way people ask, not the way tools suggest.
AI Overviews Are Device-Sensitive
Google changes them depending on the device you use.
This could mean your desktop traffic behaves differently from your mobile traffic wild, right?
Publishers, beware: AI Overviews drop your click-through rates.
Unlike Featured Snippets, these give users everything leaving little reason to visit your site.
Adapt your SEO now.
GA4 Isn’t Ready for AI Overviews
Getting Google traffic but seeing no clear source?
AI Overview clicks often don’t pass proper referrer data.
GA4 may show it as “Direct” and you’d never know it was Gen AI.
To Block AI, You Must Block Google
AI Overviews don’t respect robots.txt or max-snippet.
If you want to be excluded, you have to block all of Google via noindex or nosnippet.
It’s all or nothing for now.
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Excessive monetization = lower AI visibility.
AI Overviews penalize pages filled with affiliate links, ads, and popups. RAG grounding weight drops, and your content vanishes from the conversation.
Is Google quietly killing affiliate SEO?
AI Overviews are reshaping the search landscape.
Publishers are seeing 20-60% traffic drops. It’s time to rework your SEO strategies for the age of AI.
Don’t get left behind.
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Your next customer is probably searching right now.
Invest in Local SEO.
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Google AI Only Reads Visible HTML
Unless that content is visible in the raw HTML, Google’s AI Overviews will likely ignore it. Visibility matters to both users and bots.
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