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This page answers the questions covered by the article Four Hours a Week for Six Weeks: An AI Overview Playbook With No New Software on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to groas, spend four hours a week for six weeks, for 24 hours total, on pages already ranking at positions 4-15 for buyer questions that trigger Google AI Overviews. The article recommends making those pages easy to crawl and easy to quote with answer-first rewrites rather than buying new software or writing new posts. Existing pages come first and no software purchase happens in week one.
According to groas, spend the 24 hours on pages already ranking at positions 4-15 for buyer questions that trigger AI Overviews, not on another tool or a batch of new posts. The article recommends making the page easy to crawl and easy to quote rather than starting posts from zero. Existing pages come first and answer-first rewrites come next, with no software purchase in week one.
Read more: the article
The article recommends no new software for the 24-hour scope and states that if you cannot yet check ten questions and a handful of pages by hand, you do not have a software problem. According to groas, the free stack covers this scope: Search Console for queries and URL Inspection, PageSpeed Insights for Core Web Vitals, and Rich Results Test for schema. Each step costs four hours and buys one thing the next step needs.
Read more: The constraint: 24 hours, six weeks, zero new tools
According to groas, pay for software when checking the question set by hand costs more than the subscription, which becomes more plausible once tracking dozens of queries or multiple locations. The article advises keeping the manual check first with the same ten questions once a month. Before buying, it recommends looking at which capabilities help you get featured rather than merely monitored.
Read more: When the four-hour constraint lifts
The article recommends keeping buyer questions where an existing page sits around positions 4-15 and sorting pages into three piles. Pile A is a page ranking around positions 4-15 for a buyer question that triggers an Overview but the site is not cited, and the article states to fix these first. Pile B is the same range without an Overview to keep for later, Pile C is everything else to leave alone, with three to five Pile A pages to inspect and only two to rewrite.
Read more: 2. Week 2: Find the pages one push away
The article recommends picking the top two Pile A pages, turning the relevant H2 into the buyer's exact question, and putting a direct answer immediately below it before the backstory, aiming for roughly 40-55 words. According to groas, a complete answer should carry its number, scope, and condition together so it can be copied and understood without the rest of the page. The article budgets roughly 90 minutes per page for the rewrite and the remaining hour to check both pages on mobile.
Read more: 4. Week 4: Rewrite two pages answer-first
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