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Step 1: Pull your current monthly organic clicks from Google Search Console (last 28 days, all pages). Step 2: Estimate what percentage of those queries are informational versus transactional. Most content-led SaaS sites sit at 55-70% informational. Step 3: Pick your primary vertical. The model uses BrightEdge Feb 2026 AIO trigger rates: Healthcare 88%, Education 83%, SaaS/B2B 82%, Travel 60%, General 48%, Fintech 35%, E-commerce 25%. Step 4: Enter your revenue per organic click. If unknown, 30-60 INR is typical for SaaS, 15-40 INR for content sites, 80-200 INR for fintech and healthcare leads.
AIO exposure rate is the percentage of your traffic visiting queries where AI Overviews fire. Click erosion rate is the average CTR drop on those queries (34% is the 2025 BrightEdge benchmark). Annual revenue at risk is the compounded loss if you do nothing.
If your click erosion rate is above 25%, you have a quarter-to-quarter problem. Audit your top 20 organic pages for extractability, restructure informational content to answer-first formats, and start building citation share on ChatGPT and Perplexity alongside Google. Brands that started GEO work in late 2024 are now capturing 20-35% of lost click value through AIO citations and branded search lift.

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Studies from Ahrefs, Semrush and BrightEdge across 2024-2025 show click-through rates drop 18-40% on queries that trigger AI Overviews, with informational and how-to queries taking the biggest hit. Healthcare and education verticals see 30-45% CTR erosion, while transactional queries see 8-15%.
Healthcare and wellness sit at the top with about 72% AIO trigger rate on informational queries per BrightEdge Feb 2026 data. Education and EdTech follow at around 68%. SaaS and B2B tech are at 64%, e-commerce around 61%, fintech at 58%, and travel at 55%. Transactional and brand queries remain less affected.
Generative Engine Optimization is the practice of structuring content so that AI engines (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini) cite your brand in their answers. SEO optimizes for ranking on the blue-link SERP. GEO optimizes for being the source AI cites. Both matter, but GEO is where organic visibility is shifting.
It is a directional estimate, not a contract. The model uses published vertical-level AIO trigger rates, a 34% average click erosion on queries with AIO boxes, and your own revenue-per-click. Pair this with your actual GSC clicks trend over the last 6 months to validate directionality. If GSC shows a drop, the model is conservative.
You cannot fully recover blue-link clicks on queries where Google answers directly. But you can capture citation share inside the AIO box itself, which drives branded searches, direct traffic, and LLM citations on ChatGPT and Perplexity. Brands investing in GEO early are seeing 20-35% recovery of lost click value within 6-9 months.
Quarterly. AIO trigger rates are still expanding across verticals, and Google rolls new query types into AIO scope every few months. Rerun with fresh GSC numbers each quarter and track the revenue-at-risk trajectory. If the number is climbing, your GEO investment is not keeping pace.
Yes. Transactional queries, brand queries, and long-tail commercial intent queries still drive most direct revenue. SEO and GEO are complementary. GEO protects your discovery surface. SEO protects your conversion surface. Under-investing in either leaks revenue.