Google AI Mode Visibility Tracker
The Google AI Mode Visibility Tracker shows how Google's conversational AI Mode in Search answers your tracked prompts: which brands it names and in what order, the sentiment and the pages it cites. Runs daily per prompt; included in every SALTEN plan, with pricing shared in the WhatsApp chat.
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What Google AI Mode is and how it answers
AI Mode is a conversational search experience inside Google Search. It issues several sub-queries (query fan-out), reads the results and composes a long answer with citations. SALTEN records the fan-out queries as well as the answer.
Why track Google AI Mode visibility
AI Mode answers are built from Google's live index and fan-out queries, so visibility here depends on how well your pages cover the sub-questions Google asks. Tracking shows the fan-out queries and cited pages so your content team can target them.
Tracker facts
| Engine | Google AI Mode (Google) |
|---|---|
| Collection method | Web UI scraping (the same answers users see) |
| Channel id | google-1 |
| Frequency | Once every 24 hours per prompt (Enterprise: daily or weekly) |
| Availability | All plans (one of the 3 included models) — or as a $35/month add-on |
| Pricing | Shared in the WhatsApp chat; free AI-visibility check before you pay |
Metrics SALTEN reports for Google AI Mode
| Metric | Definition |
|---|---|
| Visibility | Share of AI answers (chats) in which the brand appears at least once, 0–100%. Computed per day, model, country and topic. |
| Position | Average rank of the brand among all brands named in an answer (1 = named first). Lower is better. |
| Sentiment | Average tone of the phrases about the brand on a 0–100 scale (50 = neutral), scored per answer by an extraction model. |
| Share of Voice | The brand's mentions divided by all brand mentions in the selected slice, in percent. |
| Sources | URLs and domains the AI used (retrieved) or cited (linked) while answering, with usage and citation counts and page/domain classification. |
How the tracker works
- You add prompts — conversational questions your customers ask Google AI Mode — and the brands to track.
- Every 24 hours SALTEN asks Google AI Mode each prompt from a resident IP in the project country and stores the full answer, its features (web search, shopping, comparison) and fan-out queries.
- An extraction pipeline detects brand mentions (aliases and transliteration-aware), rank, sentiment phrases and every URL the engine used or cited.
- Results are aggregated daily per model, country and topic into Visibility, Position, Sentiment, Share of Voice and source tables you can filter, export or query via API/MCP.
Google AI Mode tracking questions
Does SALTEN capture AI Mode fan-out queries?
Yes. For each answer SALTEN stores the fan-out queries it could observe (index, text, type) next to the answer text, sources and brand mentions.
Is AI Mode available in every country?
Google rolls AI Mode out by market. If a channel is not supported in a project country, SALTEN marks it as unsupported for that country.