Google confirms that normal “seo” helps to index site in AIO
Gary Illyes, the google search employee, confirmed that normal SEO works for Google AI overview and AI mode in Google search.
- Normal SEO helps to index and rank website in Google AI Overview
- Use of Title tag, Meta description tag, Heading tag like H1 are still must
- Helpful content is the top priority for appearing in Google AIO
- Use of correct schema markup using JSON LD on every page is must
- Google uses identical crawling and indexing for Google search and AIO
- Google does not use LLMs.txt but crawls actual pages
- SE-O fundamentals help to get mentioned in Google AI overview
- Not need to go for GEO (generative engine optimization)
- SEO is not dead, its evolving in AI world.