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Google AI Mode Tracking

Track every day whether Google AI Mode names your brand when your customers ask their questions in Google, country by country. See the competitors it recommends, the sites it cites, and what to change on your site to be in the answer.

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Key Takeaways

  • Google AI Mode is Google's conversational search: one written answer in place of the list of links. Mentionable asks it your customers' questions every day, from each country you track, and records whether your brand is in the answer.
  • For each answer: mention or not, position among the brands named, tone, competitors named with you or instead of you, and the sites AI Mode cites.
  • AI Mode runs on Gemini but answers inside Google Search, from what the search returns. Its answer often differs from the Gemini app, so the two are tracked separately.
  • AI Mode is available on every offer and preselected from the Influence offer upward, next to ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Gemini.

Your customer types a question in Google and clicks the AI Mode tab. No ten blue links, no ads to scroll past: one written answer, which names three brands and cites the pages it read. If you are not one of the three, the customer has no list to scroll down to find you.

Your rank tracker will not tell you. It measures positions in the classic results, and AI Mode has none.

Mentionable asks AI Mode for you, every day, and records who it recommends.

What Mentionable measures in Google AI Mode

You track the questions your customers ask Google, written the way they ask them: "which CRM for a 20-person sales team", "best running shoes for flat feet", "Brand A vs Brand B". Mentionable suggests them from your site, and from your Google Search Console data once it is connected.

Each question is asked to AI Mode every day, from each country you track, in its language. For each answer, Mentionable records:

  • whether your brand is named, and at what position among the brands in the answer
  • the tone of the mention and the sentence it sits in
  • the competitors named with you or in your place
  • the sites AI Mode cites to back its answer

The dashboard turns this into a visibility rate per question and per country, with its history. You see the day a competitor took your place, and on which question.

What is different about AI Mode

It answers the whole question. An AI Overview summarises above the classic results; AI Mode replaces them. A customer in AI Mode reads the answer and the brands it names, and that is often where the search ends.

It runs on Gemini, inside Google Search. AI Mode builds its answer from what Google's search returns, so it does not answer like the Gemini app on the same question. Mentionable reads the AI Mode answer as a Google user sees it. If you want the Gemini app too, track it as a separate engine.

It cites Google's sources. The pages AI Mode cites are pages Google already finds. Your work on Google rankings and your AI Mode visibility are linked, which is why Mentionable connects to Google Search Console and puts both in the same plan.

On the same question, AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT often name different brands. The dashboard puts them side by side so you see where you are missing.

From the measure to the next action

The Sources page lists the sites AI Mode cites on your questions: your competitors' pages, comparison sites, guides, directories. The ones that never mention you become sources to obtain, and from the Influence offer, Mentionable runs the outreach to earn the mention.

The action plan lists the pages to create or rewrite on your site for the questions you lose, and the fixes to make first. Then the tracking shows whether AI Mode starts naming you.

Getting started

Enter your URL, keep the suggested questions and tick AI Mode among your engines: it is available on every offer and preselected from Influence. The 7-day free trial runs without a card, and Presence starts at €249/month. To compare manual and automated ways of tracking, read the tracking AI mentions guide.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Google AI Mode tracking tool?

A Google AI Mode tracking tool asks AI Mode the questions your customers type, on a schedule, and records whether your brand appears in the answer. Mentionable does it every day, from each country you track and in its language, and adds the competitors named, your position, the tone of the mention and the sites AI Mode cites.

Is Google AI Mode the same as Google AI Overviews?

No. An AI Overview is a summary that sometimes appears above the classic results of a Google search. AI Mode is a separate tab where Google answers the whole question in a conversational way, with no list of links first. The same question can cite your brand in one and not the other, so Mentionable tracks them separately.

Is Google AI Mode the same as Gemini?

AI Mode runs on Gemini, but it answers inside Google Search, from the pages the search returns, and its answer often differs from the one you get in the Gemini app. Mentionable reads the AI Mode answer as a Google user sees it. To also measure the Gemini app, track Gemini as a separate engine.

Can I track Google AI Mode in several countries?

Yes. Each tracked question belongs to a country and is asked from that country, in its language, because Google answers differently from one country to the next. The number of countries depends on your offer, from 1 on Presence to 3 on Reference.

How do I improve my visibility in Google AI Mode?

Start with the questions where AI Mode names a competitor instead of you. Mentionable shows the sites AI Mode cites on those questions and the pages that answer them. The action plan then lists the pages to create or rewrite on your site and the sources to obtain, and the tracking shows when AI Mode starts naming you.

Which Mentionable offers include Google AI Mode?

Every brand offer. AI Mode is preselected on Influence and Reference; on Presence you tick it among your engines, up to the number the offer includes. The 7-day free trial runs without a card.

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