Google AI Mode Is Here (May 2026): The SEO Playbook You Need to Rewrite — Now
AI Overviews now show up on 48% of Google queries — and 93% of AI Mode sessions end without a single click off the page. The bar moved from 'rank a link' to 'be cited inside the answer.' Here is the May-2026 playbook: the six ranking factors that actually drive citations, the llms.txt + JSON-LD stack to deploy this week, the bot-allow rules every site needs, and the one Magento-specific pattern that turns AI Mode from a traffic loss into a brand-mention pipeline.