Google is testing putting the hyperlink playing cards on the prime of the AI Overviews field inside Google Search. As a substitute of getting them deep on the backside, they’re being examined on the prime, which might clearly drive extra clicks to publishers than the present implementation.
A Google spokesperson confirmed that is only a check and isn’t totally stay.
This check was noticed by Bartosz Góralewicz who has a monitoring device for AI Overviews named Ziptie. He posted this screenshot on X:
Examine that to what I see:
Yea, the one method to see the playing cards it to click on “Present extra” after which they present a on the backside:
Bart believes they’re rolling this out extra extensively quickly however I requested Google and so they confirmed that is only a check.
Right here is his publish:
🛑 ALERT 🛑
Google simply launched a brand new structure of Google AIOs.
– Hyperlinks to web sites on prime of the web page
– A brand new construction of AIO responses
– Completely different protection per verticals we observeExtra updates are coming quickly!
Take a look at https://t.co/yi4UHVQA6m for monitoring & optimizing! pic.twitter.com/xKIN7Gx625
— Bartosz Góralewicz (@bart_goralewicz) June 26, 2024
They’re rolling this out. I feel you may see this quickly. We see this popping up data-center by data-center.
— Bartosz Góralewicz (@bart_goralewicz) June 26, 2024
Sure, this was our logic at first, too. It appears to scale to different areas. We’ll see, however it might really be a pleasant change driving extra clicks to web sites (and giving Google some area to promote ;))
— Bartosz Góralewicz (@bart_goralewicz) June 26, 2024
Right here is a few of the response from the website positioning group on this:
Effectively that’s… one thing https://t.co/llwo5dPHyf
— Lily Ray 😏 (@lilyraynyc) June 26, 2024
This one appears to be like fairly attention-grabbing.
Higher than utilizing carousel or needing to open a dropdown. https://t.co/9b9KkKXANe— Gianluca Fiorelli (@gfiorelli1) June 26, 2024
What’s….the purpose of the AIO if it is not the very first thing customers see? 😂 https://t.co/YmfGE5HIYI
— Blair MacGregor (@blairmacgregor) June 26, 2024
And extra reactions on LinkedIn:
Brandon Wentland, “Attention-grabbing… I like how the citations are MUCH extra distinguished than earlier than, that could be a massive win for manufacturers.”
Brennen Bliss, “Love this!”
Marcus Sandford, “Considerably of an enchancment, proper? And slightly totally different or “friendlier” to website positioning than what a number of us feared was coming subsequent.”
I prefer it. Jogs my memory of Perplexity on desktop. https://t.co/qTIKivOmqk pic.twitter.com/GZKW4ujDEv
— Ethan Lazuk 🪬 (@EthanLazuk) June 26, 2024
Once more, that is only a check…
Discussion board dialogue at X.
