ai-overview-recovery

# AI Overview Recovery Playbook When Google AIO stops citing your article, run this recovery (per seo-geo pattern). ## Phase 0: CONFIRM the loss is real (v3.35 — churn guard) **AIO citations churn ~45% per render** (Ahrefs 2025: consecutive AIO renders of the same query share only ~54.5% of cited URLs). A single uncited probe is noise, not a loss — recovering from churn wastes a full rewrite cycle and poisons the journal. - The automated trigger is already guarded: `refresh_decision_router` emits `NOT_IN_AI` only after **2 consecutive uncited probes ≥ 48h apart** (observations persisted in `projects/{slug}/audits/aio-observations.json`; an in-between cited probe resets the clock). A router-emitted NOT_IN_AI action is therefore pre-confirmed — proceed to Phase 1. - For a MANUAL `/aio-recovery` invocation: check `aio-observations.json` first. If the loss has only one observation, re-probe after 48h instead of starting recovery: `python -m scripts.monitor.refresh_decision_router --site {slug} --json` - Evidence: `references/seo/serp-feature-value-2026.md` §4. ## Phase 1: Measure Damage (Day 0) - Check GSC: AIO impressions drop - Run ai_search_probe to confirm - Document: which queries lost AIO citation? Traffic impact? ## Phase 2: Diagnose Skip Reason (Day 0-2) 4 query strategy classifiers: - (A) Freshness — content >12 months old, new competitors fresher - (B) Authority — competitors gained backlinks; we lost - (C) Structure — H2/H3 structure no longer matches...