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AI SEO in 2026: What Google's SGE Rollout Actually Rewards

We analyzed 400 winning pages to identify the structural patterns that earn AI-answer citations.

TRTom RiedelJune 27, 2026Updated June 27, 20263 min read

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SGE changed the rules but not the game — the sites winning citations share four boring, repeatable structural patterns.

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