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AI-generated overviews have changed how results are presented, but the underlying signals search engines rely on — crawlability, structured data, page speed, and topical authority — are unchanged. If anything, the bar for technical cleanliness has gone up: AI systems summarizing your content need clean, parseable markup even more than a human skimming a SERP does.
Start with the plumbing: audit your crawl budget, fix orphaned pages, and make sure your structured data actually validates. Then build topical depth, not just keyword coverage. The sites winning in 2026 are the ones that were technically sound long before AI Overviews existed.