New from Google: How to become a preferred source in Google's AI answers

New from Google: How to become a preferred source in Google's AI answers

May 27, 2026 · 10 min

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Marie Haynes discusses how to become a preferred source in Google's AI answers.

You can now ask your readers to add you as a preferred source, even if you’re not a news site! This will increase the chances that your audience sees you in AI Overview and AI Mode answers. Google’s blog post on the recent changes to preferred source: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/original-high-quality-content-search/ Instructions from Google on how to do this: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/preferred-sources My blog if you want to check out the preferred source widget at the bottom of any of my blog posts: https://mariehaynes.com/blog/?utm_source=youtube My newsletter: https://mariehaynes.com/newsletter/ My community, the Search Bar: https://mariehaynes.com/join/

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