I Tested searchfoundpro.com Against 15 AI Overview Queries. Here’s What I Found.

If you’ve searched something on Google recently, you’ve probably seen it: a big block of AI-generated text sitting at the very top of the page, above all the regular blue links. Google calls this an AI Overview. It’s not a website or an ad. It’s Google’s AI reading a handful of web pages and writing you a quick summary within seconds.

These AI-generated answers now appear in roughly 48% of all Google searches, as of July 2026. And the websites that get cited inside them? Those are pages that, for that particular search, the AI decided were worth pulling from.

That made me curious about my own site.

Why I Ran This Experiment

I run Search & Found, a small SEO consultancy based in the Houston metro area. My work is focused on SEO & AI search visibility. I help small, local businesses show up in traditional search results, generative search engines like ChatGPT, and in the AI-generated answers that are increasingly taking over the top of Google’s search results page. So I pulled 15 real queries connected to what I do and actually checked: where does searchfoundpro.com show up in AI Overviews, if at all?

I kept my expecations low because I didn’t expect much. I wanted a real starting point, whatever that looked like.

July 2026: What I Tested and How

The 15 queries covered topics I write about and consult on: AI search visibility, local SEO for Houston businesses, generative engine optimization, answer engine optimization, and a few general SEO questions my clients tend to ask. I checked each one manually in an incognito browser and cross-referenced with SE Ranking’s AIO tracking data. The goal was to capture what was actually happening at a specific point in time, not to engineer a favorable result.

What the Data Showed

Searchfoundpro.com initially did not appear in any of the 15 queries. Not once.

Some of the queries triggered AI Overviews. Others didn’t. But in every case, my site wasn’t cited or mentioned. Not as a source, not as a link, not anywhere in the AI-generated answer.

Honestly? That’s useful information. You can’t improve what you haven’t measured. And now I have a clear picture of where things stood at the start of July 2026.

September 2026: Then Something Changed

Earlier this month, I published a new pillar page: Houston SEO. It’s a service page built around how I work and who I work with, written to directly answer what a business owner searching for AI search help in Houston would want to know.

A few weeks later, I searched “AI search visibility consultants in Houston TX” and this came up:

“Search & Found: Provides targeted Houston SEO & AI Search Consulting with customized packages ranging from standalone audits and entity alignment roadmaps to full-scope ongoing GEO/AEO strategy.”

That’s searchfoundpro.com, cited in a Google AI Overview*. The site also showed up first in the cited sources results on the right-hand panel at the same time. It was also the eighth organic search result (blue links).

One page put me on page one. Published this month. And it moved the needle immediately.

What This Actually Means

The 15-query experiment gave me a baseline: zero appearances. The pillar page gave me a data point in the other direction. I’m not claiming guaranteed results here on the first attempt. But the pattern is consistent with what tends to get cited: content that directly answers a specific question, clearly describes what you do and who you serve, and matches the way someone would actually search for you.

For a local business in Houston or East Texas, this is what the work looks like in practice. Not a guarantee. Not a formula. Just targeted content, published consistently, tracked honestly.

Over the next 12 months, I’m building out searchfoundpro.com according to my full SEO and AI search strategy, with the goal of improving organic rankings, AI Overview citations, and brand mentions across AI-powered search tools. This post is the baseline. Future posts in this series will document what changes, what works, and what doesn’t.