How do you rank in Google AI Overviews?

AI Overviews are assembled from passages rather than whole pages, so the unit to optimise is a self-contained section that answers one question in its first two sentences.

AI Overviews are assembled from passages, not whole pages, so the unit that matters is the section rather than the document. A page can be cited for one heading and ignored for everything else on it.

The structure that works is direct. Put the question as the heading, answer it plainly in the first two sentences, and keep the section true when it is read on its own with no surrounding context. Supporting detail goes after the answer, never before it.

For product queries the same principle applies to data. An Overview answering a question about price, availability or compatibility needs those as retrievable facts, and it will use a source that has them structured over one that requires inference.