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4.6% -- ai overview citation increase outside top 10 for Restaurant industry pages cited in AI Overviews from non-top-10 results (2025)
The restaurant industry experienced a 4.6% increase in Google AI Overview citations sourced from results outside the top 10 organic positions following the March 2025 core update.
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4.6%
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Data Vintage
2025
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B
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50
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60
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20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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sparkseo.net
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Tier C
https://sparkseo.net/how-much-traffic-are-ai-overviews-robbing-from-your-website/ ↗
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How Much Traffic are AI Overviews Robbing from Your Website? | Spark SEO
You’re ranking. Your SEO’s solid. But your traffic? It’s quietly tanking.
Sound familiar?
You’re not alone — and the culprit isn’t a competitor or a core update. It’s something newer. Smarter. And way more disruptive:
Google’s AI Overviews.
These AI-generated summaries now sit above the traditional …
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sparkseo.net
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Increase in AI Overview citations from results outside the top 10 for the Restaurants vertical; original analysis unnamed.
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Restaurant industry pages cited in AI Overviews from non-top-10 results: 4.6% ai overview citation increase outside top 10. Source: sparkseo.net (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/restaurants-ai-citations-outside-top10-increase
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