Google AI Overviews For Branded & Navigational Queries???

Sep 26, 2024 - 7:41 am 0 by
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Google AI Overviews generally do not show up for branded or navigational queries. So if you are searching for a brand or company, generally, Google has not shown an AI Overview.

And honestly, that still seems to be the case.

But the other day, Victor Pan from Hubspot, noticed that Google was showing an AI Overview for a search on [hubspot] - a branded or navigational query. He posted about it on X and it got a lot of attention. And he is correct, Google, for some reason, is showing an AI Overview in this case.

Here is a screenshot:

Branded Google Ai Overviews

So I watched this and I tested dozens of different brands, including about a dozen brands in the same or similar space of Hubspot and Google is not showing AI Overviews for other brands. I tried Salesforce, Zendesk, Monday.com, Pipedrive, Zoho, Semrush and so many others. Nothing - not yet - at least.

Generally, you don't want to see AI Overviews for branded queries. You don't know what it might say and if that will lead to fewer clicks to your brand because it might mention competitors...

That being said, I think this Hubspot example is an outlier, maybe even a bug.

I mean, if it is not a bug, then sure, panic because:

Do you see AI Overviews trigger for brand terms or navigational queries?

Forum discussion at X.

Update: Mark Traphagen from seoClarity looked at their dataset and said on LinkedIn, "In seoClarity I confirmed that no AIO shows for the brand name alone for all of those listed below. The number after indicates the number of queries that include the brand name and something more that DO show an AIO."

 

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