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Search Rank Tracking for AI Overview

Locate your brand's position in Google's AI Overviews

Beamtrace follows your searches through Google's AI Overviews, logs where your brand is named in the summary, and shows which competitors get named before you and which topics fall behind the leader.
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From prompts to position

See where AI Overview places you — then work on the distance to the leader

Beamtrace compares your position in AI Overviews summaries with competitors on the same searches, marks where your brand is missing, and follows how the gap moves as data updates.

Find where you're left out

See which searches produce an AI Overview that skips your brand, and which competitor the summary names in your place.

See the full position

Each search shows its Visibility Score, Visibility Rank, and Share of Voice, grouped by topic, next to the websites the AI Overview referenced for it.

Work on the widest gap

The Topic breakdown and the Competitors view show which topics trail the leader, so you can decide where to begin.

Track the shift

Follow Top Placement Rate, Typical Position, and Consistency as new data arrives, and check how your rank responds after you publish changes.
Root causes

What decides whether AI Overview mentions you

Beamtrace looks at your AI Overviews ranking from two sides: the websites and topics behind the summaries your searches trigger, and how your placement compares with competitors on those same searches.

Trace where AI Overview’s answers come from

Review the websites and pages referenced in AI Overviews for your tracked searches, and the topics where your brand is covered, thin, or missing.

Beamtrace checks:

  • Citation sources per prompt

  • Referenced websites and pages

  • Source frequency across prompts

  • Topic strengths and gaps

  • Prompts where you're absent

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Check how AI Overview presents you

Compare your rank on each search with competitors, then look at how high and how steadily you appear when the summary names you.

Beamtrace checks:

  • Visibility Rank on each prompt

  • Competitors ranking above and below you

  • Share of Voice trend

  • Top Placement Rate in reply text

  • Consistency: improving, stable, or declining

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Workflow

Track rankings in AI Overview in 3 steps

1. Add your business poster

1. Add your business

Link your website to get a free ranking report.

2. Get ranking data on AI Overview poster

2. Get ranking data on AI Overview

Explore your positions: see first, second, or absent for each prompt, with Visibility Score, Visibility Rank, and Share of Voice by topic.

3. Follow the trend poster

3. Follow the trend

Track your metrics against the leading competitor as new data arrives.

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Track your rank on other AI platforms

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