Google AI Overview Brand Citation Checker

$0.03 per keyword checked: 50 keywords cost $1.50, and the free sample run checks your first 3 keywords with no keyword fee.

Is your website one of the sources Google's AI Overview cites? Give this Actor your keywords and your domains and it answers, for every keyword: does Google show an AI Overview, is one of your domains cited in it, at which position, and which competitors are cited next to you. One clean row per keyword, ready for a spreadsheet, a dashboard or an API call.

It reads the Google results page the way a visitor sees it (through Apify's Google search proxy), so you do not need a Google account, an API key or a browser of your own.

Try it in one minute:

1. Press Start. The prefilled input checks three everyday keywords against spotify.com and three competitor domains.
2. Open the Output tab: each keyword has aiOverviewShown, youCited, yourBestPosition, competitorsCited and the full list of source domains.
3. Replace the prefill with your own keywords and domains, or tick Free sample run to check your first 3 keywords without any keyword fee.

More AI visibility tools from highbrow_fame

Tool	Question it answers	Price
AI Brand Monitor	Is my brand cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini?	$0.05 per answer; full audit $4.80
AI share of voice	Which brands do ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini name in my category, and how often is mine named vs competitors?	$0.08 per prompt
Page citation checker	Is this URL cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini?	$0.12 per URL
Shopify AI Readiness Audit	Is my Shopify catalog ready for AI shopping assistants?	$0.01 per store

What you get for each keyword

Field	What it tells you
aiOverviewShown	true if Google showed an AI Overview for this search, false if it did not
youCited	true if at least one cited source is on one of your domains (subdomains count)
yourCitedUrls	the exact pages of yours that are cited
yourBestPosition	where your best source sits in the overview's source list (1 = first)
competitorsCited	[{ domain, position, url }] for each competitor domain found in the same overview
allSourceDomains	every website the overview cites, in the order Google lists them
status / error	OK, or FAILED with the reason (free)
country, language, checkedAt	what was checked and when

Sample output

{
  "keyword": "how to start a podcast",
  "status": "OK",
  "aiOverviewShown": true,
  "youCited": true,
  "yourCitedUrls": ["https://creators.spotify.com/resources/start-a-podcast"],
  "yourBestPosition": 2,
  "competitorsCited": [
    { "domain": "reddit.com", "position": 3, "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/podcasting/" },
    { "domain": "buzzsprout.com", "position": 4, "url": "https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/how-to-start-a-podcast" }
  ],
  "allSourceDomains": ["supportingcast.fm", "creators.spotify.com", "reddit.com", "buzzsprout.com"],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-22T10:56:28.919Z",
  "error": null
}

A keyword where Google shows no AI Overview comes back with aiOverviewShown: false and youCited: false, so a whole keyword list sorts into three piles: no overview, overview without you, overview with you.

Input

• Keywords to check (required): up to 200 searches, written as a person would type them.
• Your domain(s) (required): bare hostnames such as example.com. A subdomain of a domain you list counts as yours.
• Competitor domain(s): optional, empty by default.
• Google country: two-letter code (us, gb, ca, au ...). AI Overviews differ by country, so check the market you sell in.
• Free sample run: checks the first 3 keywords with no keyword fee.
• Parallel checks: 1-5 keywords at a time (default 3).

Price

$0.03 per keyword checked (pay per event). You are charged only for keywords whose Google page was actually read, whether or not an AI Overview was shown. Keywords that could not be read (status: FAILED: bot check, page did not load, overview still being written) are not charged. Set a maximum charge on the run and it stops cleanly when the budget is used up. The sample run charges no keyword fee; Apify's small per-run start fee applies to every run on the platform.

Typical speed: about 10-20 seconds per keyword, three at a time.

Honest limits

• English only. Google's AI Overview does not finish loading through the search proxy in other languages, so this Actor reads English-language Google (hl=en). The country setting changes the market, not the language. For citation checks in 24 languages use the AI Search Visibility Tracker linked below.
• AI Overviews do not appear for every search. Google decides per query, per country and per moment. aiOverviewShown: false means no overview was on the page at that time, not that one never appears.
• One snapshot per keyword. Overviews change from one request to the next; a single check is a sample, not a ranking. Run the same list on a schedule to see the trend.
• Position means order in the source list. Each website is counted once, in the order Google lists its sources; position 1 is the first source. It is not a click-through or visibility measurement.
• Google can refuse. If Google answers with a bot check, that keyword comes back FAILED (free) and is not retried or worked around. After three bot checks in a row the run stops instead of pushing on.
• Google's page layout changes. The Actor reads the page as rendered; if Google reshuffles it, results can come back empty until the Actor is updated.
• Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google. Only publicly visible search results are read; there is no login and no personal data.

FAQ

Can I schedule it? Yes. Use an Apify schedule and compare the datasets, or pipe the dataset into your own sheet through the API.

Why is a keyword failed? Read the error field. It is free either way.

Does it check ChatGPT or Perplexity? No, only Google's AI Overview. The AI Brand Monitor in the table above covers the others.

If this Actor was useful, an honest review on its Store page helps other people find and judge it.