Marketing & Sales · Tip
Add Google Preferred Sources Badge for SEO
Embed a button letting visitors set your site as a preferred source
This tip shows how to implement a clickable button on your website that prompts visitors to add your domain to their preferred sources in Google Search. Doing so helps your content appear more frequently in their Google Discover feed, AI Overviews, and Top Stories. It uses Google Search Central guidelines paired with an LLM prompt to generate the embed code.
How it works
- Search for the official documentation: 'Google Search Central - Help your readers find your site through preferred sources in Google Search'.
- Copy the documentation guidelines and paste them into an AI assistant (such as ChatGPT or Claude) with a prompt asking it to generate the HTML/JS embed code for your specific domain.
- Customize the button label and appearance (e.g., 'Add to Preferred Sources' or 'Make me a preferred source on Google' with a Google G logo).
- Embed the button on your site so recurring visitors can easily add your site to their preferred sources on Google.
What it's for
- Increase recurring visibility in visitors' Google Discover and AI Overviews
- Encourage loyal readers to favorite your domain directly within Google Search
- Generate custom embed markup using LLM code generation based on Google documentation
Key points
- Search for the Google Search Central preferred sources documentation
- Prompt an AI assistant to write HTML/JavaScript embed code for your specific domain
- Style the button with recognizable branding, such as a Google logo icon
- Add the custom button to your website headers, sidebars, or footers
Pricing
Free
Details
- Type
- Tip
- Category
- Marketing & Sales
- Topic
- SEO
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- Web
- For
- Website owners, content publishers, and SEO practitioners
- Tags
- seo, google search, google discover, ai overviews, web development
Why it was saved
- @edward.builds: Causes your site to appear more frequently in visitors' AI Overviews, AI Mode, Top Stories, and Google Discover results, and may act as a global ranking signal.
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