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  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/why-is-google-ai-overviews-citing-resellers-instead-of-my-site",
  "question": "Why is Google AI Overviews citing resellers instead of my site?",
  "description": "Discover why Google AI Overviews prioritizes resellers over your brand and learn technical diagnostic steps to improve your AI visibility and source selection.",
  "summary": "Google AI Overviews often favors resellers because they aggregate comparative data that aligns with AI search intent. Trakkr helps you monitor these citations to identify gaps and refine your content strategy for better AI visibility.",
  "answer": "Google AI Overviews prioritizes content that provides comprehensive, neutral, or comparative information, which often leads to resellers being cited over direct brand sites. These resellers act as hubs by aggregating data across multiple brands, a structure that AI models frequently favor for answering complex user queries. To address this, you must move beyond traditional SEO and focus on AI visibility by ensuring your content is machine-readable and structured for AI crawlers. Trakkr provides the necessary tools to monitor these citations, compare your brand against competitor positioning, and identify the technical formatting gaps that prevent your site from being selected as a primary source.",
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  "createdAt": "2026-01-16",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-29",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
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    "Google AI Overviews",
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    "name": "Trakkr Research",
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    "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/authors/trakkr-research/"
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      "title": "Citation Intelligence"
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      "slug": "citation-audits",
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      "label": "Google AI features and your website",
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