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

About this episode

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/

People in this episode

Host: Marie Haynes

Topics covered

• Google AI
• preferred source
• SEO
• content quality
• search engine optimization

Keywords

• Google
• preferred source
• AI answers
• SEO
• content quality
• search

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google

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