AI Overview tracking

Google answers before the click. Track your brand in AI Overviews.

AI Overviews now sit above the blue links on a growing share of commercial searches, answering before anyone scrolls. Trakkr tracks which queries trigger them, whether your brand is named and cited, which competitors get the slot, and alerts you the day the answer changes.

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[01]In the dashboard
GoogleAI Overviews
/Nike/Last 30 daysLive
Overview presence
44%+9%
Citation rate
21%+5%
Avg position
#2.4+0.7
Share of voice
33%+6%
Prompt
best running shoes for marathon training
Nike
most cushioned running shoes for beginners
Adidas
are carbon plate shoes worth it
Nike
best shoe brand for wide feet
New Balance
nike vs adidas for everyday wear
Nike
durable trail running shoes 2026
No mention
AI Overview trigger + presenceCited URLs per queryCompetitor share of voiceDaily history
[02]Why it's a new surface

Rank tracking watches the links. This watches the answer on top of them.

For twenty years, search visibility meant one thing: where your page sat in the list of blue links. AI Overviews changed the page. On a growing share of commercial queries, Google now composes an answer from a handful of sources and puts it above the links, where most people read first and many stop. The list is still there. It is just no longer the first thing on the page.

That makes the Overview its own surface to measure. The same query can show an Overview this week and not the next, cite your page on Monday and a competitor's by Friday, and pull from review sites in one category and brand domains in another. A keyword position number tells you none of that. You have to track the Overview itself: whether it triggers, whether you are in it, which URL earned the citation, and who you are sharing the answer with.

And the Overview is only Google's slice. AI Overviews run on Gemini, while your buyers also ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, and those models rarely agree. Trakkr tracks the Overview in full, then sets it next to every other AI surface so you see your whole answer-layer footprint, not one corner of it.

Rank tracking vs AI Overview tracking

What it tracks
Your page in a list of links
Your brand inside the AI answer
Where it sits
Ten blue links
Above the links, read first
Slots available
A full results page
A handful of cited sources
How you lose
Slipping to page two
A rival takes the citation, or you vanish from the answer
What you measure
Keyword position
Trigger rate, mentions, cited URLs, share of voice
43.9%

How often AI answers agree on the #1 brand. AI Overviews are Gemini's view, so the Overview is one read, not the whole story.

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[03]What Trakkr tracks

The Overview is what buyers read.

These are the signals you manage.

Triggering queries

Which of your category, comparison, and how-to queries actually return an AI Overview, and which lost or gained one since yesterday.

Overview presence

Whether your brand is named inside the Overview, where it sits in the answer, and how often it appears first across your query set.

Cited sources

The exact URLs Google links under each Overview, grouped by your own pages, publishers, reviews, forums, and competitor domains.

Competitor share

Who Google cites ahead of you, on which queries, and whether the share-of-voice gap in your category is widening or closing.

Source mix

Whether your category's Overviews run on brand domains, review sites, or community threads. The mix tells you where to earn placements.

Alerts

Notifications the day an Overview appears on a query you care about, drops your citation, promotes a competitor, or picks up a stale source.

[04]Related surfaces
[05]How it works
01

Add your brand

Enter your domain. Trakkr builds a buyer-intent query set for your category and identifies the competitors you are measured against.

02

Track AI Overviews daily

Trakkr runs your queries every day, records which return an Overview, whether your brand is mentioned and cited, the source URLs used, and where competitors sit.

03

Turn gaps into actions

Every lost citation or competitor gain arrives with the specific fix: the page to sharpen, the source to earn, the claim to correct, the query to defend.

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[06]Pricing

One plan covers AI Overviews and every other model

Trakkr doesn't charge extra per AI model. AI Overviews visibility, alerts, and historical data are included from $100/mo.

Growth

Includes daily AI Overviews tracking

For founders and growing brands

$100/mo
  • Track 1 brand daily across all 8 AI models incl. AI Overviews
  • 50 buyer-intent prompts per brand
  • Daily AI Overviews visibility score + alerts
  • Citation, competitor, and sentiment tracking
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Scale

For agencies and multi-brand teams

$500/mo
  • Track 10 brands daily
  • Unlimited team seats
  • White-label client portals
  • API + MCP access for custom workflows
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Enterprise plans with SSO, custom integrations, and unlimited brands also available.See full pricing
[07]FAQ

See your brand inside Google's AI Overviews.

Enter your domain and get your AI Overview presence, citations, and competitor share in about 60 seconds.

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