Free AI Overview eligibility checker.

• Googlebot is allowed in robots.txt (AI Overviews crawl with Googlebot)
• Google-Extended is allowed (controls Gemini grounding behind AI Overviews)
• No noindex on the page or in the X-Robots-Tag header
• The answer text is server-rendered, not assembled by JavaScript only

• A concise lead answer in the opening paragraph (roughly 50 words or fewer)
• At least one question-shaped heading the page directly answers
• Lists or tables present (AI Overviews lift steps and comparisons from these)
• An FAQ or question-and-answer structure, ideally as FAQPage / QAPage schema
• Short paragraphs and sentences so a passage can be quoted cleanly

• Article, BlogPosting, FAQPage, HowTo, or QAPage JSON-LD present
• A visible author or author schema (E-E-A-T signal)
• Publication and last-modified dates exposed to crawlers
• Content recent enough to signal it is still maintained
• Outbound citations to authoritative sources
• Served over HTTPS

An AI Overview is the AI-generated answer Google shows at the top of some search results. It summarises an answer and links out to a small set of source pages it judged most useful. Being one of those linked sources is what AI Overview eligibility means: the page has to be crawlable by Google, indexable, and structured so the answer can be extracted and attributed.

15 signals in three groups: crawl and index access, answer extractability, and trust and freshness. The list above details each one.

No. Nothing guarantees an AI Overview placement - Google decides per query, and the answer set changes constantly. This tool measures the on-page and access signals that are necessary preconditions: if Google cannot crawl, index, or cleanly extract an answer from the page, it cannot cite it. A high score removes the technical reasons you would be excluded; it does not override relevance or competition for a given query.

The page you submit is fetched once by an AutomateLab server-side proxy so the checker can read your HTML and robots.txt. No URL is stored or logged beyond standard nginx access logs, and no third parties receive the URL.

Yes. The @automatelab/ai-seo-mcp package ships a score_ai_overview_eligibility tool plus AEO and GEO rewrite helpers, runnable inside Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP host. Useful when you want to score pages in CI or batch a whole sitemap.