How To Remove Your Content From Google’s AI Overviews

When Google introduced it’s rolling out AI Overviews within the US search outcomes and final 12 months when Google launched SGE in labs, SEOs and content material creators needed to know tips on how to stop their content material from displaying up in these responses. Effectively, you’ll be able to, however solely by means of Google Search controls as I coated in my bigger story.

Glenn Gabe examined the nosnippet management out and it labored – he wrote up a detailed case study here. He was in a position to take away his content material and hyperlink card from the AI Overview by including a nosnippet to the content material that Google was utilizing for the AI Overview. However when it was eliminated, that snippet within the Google Search outcomes had its description faraway from the traditional search listings.

Here’s what the AI Overview appeared like previous to the nosnippet being added:

Here’s what the AI modified to after the nosnippet was crawled and processed by Google Search (it took a number of hours, Glenn stated):

However the regular snippet in seek for his web site now not exhibits an outline part, it’s simply the title and date:

In fact, you’ll be able to all experiment with variations of nosnippets, like utilizing max-snippet data-nosnippet. However that might imply you have to do trial and error on each URL that’s used for the AI Overviews, which will be time consuming.

And the reality is, you might determine you need to present up within the AI Overviews, however with Google not displaying us the information in Google Search Console, it will likely be a tough resolution to make.

Right here is extra from Glenn on this, outdoors of the weblog submit he wrote:

As a reminder, Google added a separate web page for AI Overviews and your website, and up to date the prevailing pages for robots meta tags and subscription and paywalled content documentation accordingly.

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