Google AI Mode rank tracking: see where AI Mode names your brand

Add the prompts your buyers ask, or let Rankry write them from your site, and pick Google AI Mode as one of the engines. Rankry requests Google’s live AI Mode answer for each prompt through DataForSEO, on desktop and from your project’s location, then records whether your brand is named, your position, the references and the sentiment, and stores the full answer. Reports re-run automatically every day, or every 3 or 7 days if you choose, and every run is kept in prompt history.

AI Overviews are a short AI summary that Google shows above the regular results for some searches. AI Mode is a separate search mode, opened from its own tab, where the whole result is a longer conversational answer with links and room for follow-up questions. The two write different answers and can name different brands for the same question, so Rankry tracks them as two separate engines with their own columns, filters and history.

Real AI Mode. Rankry requests Google’s AI Mode results specifically, through DataForSEO’s AI Mode endpoint, separately from the AI Overviews it captures from regular search results. Each AI Mode answer in prompt history shows when, where, in which language and on which device it was captured, and the full answer text is stored so you can read what AI Mode actually said.

Rankry reads each AI Mode answer and lists the brands it names in the order it presents them. Your position is your rank in that list, and the Position metric is your average rank across the AI Mode answers that name you, where lower is better. Answers that do not name you count toward Visibility (as not named) rather than Position, so the two numbers together show both how often and how high you appear.

Yes. Rankry stores the references in every AI Mode answer. Each answer in prompt history lists its sources next to the brands, and the Sources page, filtered to AI Mode, shows the domains referenced in your current report with their type (You, Competitor, Review, Forum, Reference, Editorial), their status (Yours, Gap or Mixed) and up to five top URLs per domain.

Google has described AI Mode as breaking a question into several related searches and combining what it finds, a technique it calls query fan-out. Rankry does not show those background searches. It shows the result of them: the answer AI Mode gave, the brands it named in order and the pages it referenced, stored run by run.

Google includes traffic from its AI features in Search Console’s overall web search data, but Search Console does not show you the AI Mode answer, the brands it named or the pages it referenced. Rankry captures the answer itself. With the Search Console integration, on plans that include it, you can also check indexing with URL Inspection and find searches you appear for but do not track yet.

AI Mode writes each answer at the moment of the search, from live results, and the answer depends on location and language. New content, new reviews and changes in Google’s systems can shift which brands it names. Rankry asks from the same location and language on every run and keeps every answer, so you can tell a real change from a different place or phrasing.

AI Mode tracking is included on Pro or available for $20/month on Base; engines your plan does not include are shown greyed out or blurred in the dashboard. It runs from the location on your project, in the local language for 12 countries and in English elsewhere, and Global projects are checked from the United States. It is not available for projects in Belarus, Iran or Russia, and onboarding warns you if you choose one of those countries.

Yes, with one limit to know. AI Mode requests use your project’s country, or state and country; they are not set to a city or ZIP code. For local businesses Rankry writes many prompts with the location in the text, such as “best roofer in Austin”, which is how local intent reaches the answer. Tracked competitors with addresses can be shown on a map in the prompt panel. Rankry does not track Google Maps or local pack rankings.

Start with what Google says AI Mode relies on: pages that Googlebot can crawl and index and that answer the question well. Check indexing with URL Inspection, publish pages that answer full questions and comparisons directly, and earn mentions on the review sites, forums and articles AI Mode references in your category. Rankry’s Action plan turns your AI Mode gaps into ordered tasks, and Content Studio drafts the pages.

There are three common reasons. Your plan may not include Google surfaces, in which case AI Mode appears greyed out or blurred. Your project may be set to Belarus, Iran or Russia, where Rankry gets no AI Mode data. Or your prompts may carry their own engine selection without AI Mode, since each prompt runs on the engines picked when it was added. New prompts added with AI Mode selected are answered right away.