Free Query Fan-Out Tool

Turns a Google AI Mode answer into keywords to target.

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Sample output
ACME.BOT ran the question below and found 15 of 20 cited sources outside the reach of the main keyword.
Example report
Question asked

best CRM for a 5-person marketing agency

5 keywords to target

20 citations, 17 citations reached.

Main keyword

best CRM for a 5-person marketing agency

0 sources

best CRM for agencies

9 sources

Copy these queries

best CRM for a 5-person marketing agency, best CRM for agencies, best CRM for small business, CRM sales dashboard examples, HubSpot vs Monday CRM comparison, CRM for virtual assistants

Cited, but no keyword reaches it

1 source

Google doesn't publish the searches AI Mode runs. These are keywords worth targeting, drawn from the sources it cited, not a list of what Google searched.

The concept

What is query fan out?

AI Mode splits a question into several searches, runs them, and writes its answer from everything they return. One question, many searches, one answer.
best CRM for a 5-person marketing agency
  • best CRM for agencies
    9 sources
  • best CRM for small business
    2 sources
  • CRM sales dashboard examples
    1 source
  • HubSpot vs Monday CRM comparison
    1 source
  • CRM for virtual assistants
    1 source

Query fan out is what Google AI Mode does instead of running your search. It reads the question, works out the several things it would need to know, searches for each of them separately, and writes one answer from everything that comes back.

Classic search matches a keyword to a page and ranks the results. One search, one list. AI Mode runs several searches the person never typed, then cites a handful of pages from across all of them. The question is the input. The searches are Google's to choose.

Someone asks AI Mode "best CRM for a 5-person marketing agency". The answer cited 20 sources. Reaching those sources takes 5 different searches, and only one of them looks like the original question.

Search behind the answerSources it reaches
best CRM for agencies9
best CRM for small business2
CRM sales dashboard examples1
HubSpot vs Monday CRM comparison1
CRM for virtual assistants1

Nobody typed "CRM for virtual assistants". It reaches a source the answer used anyway.

A question like that one carries several buried questions: what agencies need, what small teams can afford, how the main options compare. Fanning out lets AI Mode answer all of them in one pass instead of returning a list and leaving the work to the reader.

  • »Question What someone types into AI Mode, phrased naturally.
  • »Fan out The searches AI Mode runs behind that question. Google doesn't publish them.
  • »Source A page AI Mode used in its answer, linked in the response.

Practitioners file this under generative engine optimization, alongside AI Overviews and assistant citations.

Why one keyword is not enough

Ranking first for one keyword leaves most cited sources untouched. In one run, the main keyword reached 5 of 20.

Keyword visibility used to be the whole game. Rank for the term, collect the clicks. Fan out breaks that link: the reader asks a question, and Google decides which searches answer it.

Coverage across the searches behind a question now beats position on any one of them. A site answering four of the five gets cited more often than a site holding rank one on the obvious keyword alone.

Your main keyword

best CRM for a 5-person marketing agency

5

sources reached

What it misses

15 sources, reached by other keywords

  • fastlancer.orgbest CRM for agencies
  • fluidcrm.iobest CRM for agencies
  • noloco.iobest CRM for agencies
  • officeatlas.orgbest CRM for agencies
  • twilead.combest CRM for agencies
  • imisofts.combest CRM for agencies
Method

Where the keywords come from

ACME.BOT asks Google AI Mode the question, reads every source it cited, checks which ones your main keyword already reaches, and names keywords for the rest.
1

Asks AI Mode

ACME.BOT puts your question to Google AI Mode and reads every source it cites.

2

Finds your main keyword

ACME.BOT works out the one keyword a person would search, then runs it on Google.

3

Sees what it misses

Sources your keyword already reaches drop off the list. The rest are the gap.

4

Names the keywords

ACME.BOT returns up to five keywords that reach the sources left over.

Not a list of Google's searches

No tool can show AI Mode's real searches, because Google publishes none. ACME.BOT returns keywords instead, and says so on every result.

Query fan out generators predict keywords from a topic alone. ACME.BOT starts from pages AI Mode actually cited, then asks which keywords would reach them. Every result ships with that labelled on it.

How to rank in AI Mode

Each keyword in the report names a search your site is not answering yet. Publishing against them widens what AI Mode can cite.
  1. 1

    Write the missing keywords

    Each keyword is a page or section your site does not have.

    CRM sales dashboard examples
  2. 2

    Read the leftovers

    Sources no keyword reaches usually sit in a format you are not publishing.

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  3. 3

    Run it again

    Re-run the question after publishing to see whether the gap closed.

    5 of 20 reached
FAQ
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