Google Preferred Sources

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The button also unlocks our published growth benchmarks below.

Results from client accounts

The work behind the insights you'd be adding

52,873app installs in one month at a $0.70 CPI, down from $2.388.54xROAS held over six months for an AI fitness app+127%downloads in 30 days from app store optimization alone100K+pre-launch sign-ups for a mobile puzzle RPG
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What changes in your Google

Preferred Sources personalizes your own results. Relevant, fresh articles from your chosen sources can appear more often. You can change your choice at any time. The illustration below is an example with no guaranteed ranking.

Example: results without a source preference

Example: a preferred source is highlighted

Top StoriesAI OverviewsAI Mode

Google reports people are twice as likely to click through to a source they've preferred, and 600,000+ sources have been chosen so far (Google, August 2026).

1

Open Google. Use the preferred-source button above.

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Press Add in the Google window that opens. Signed out? Google asks you to sign in first.

3

Return here. Read the unlocked benchmarks below.

The thank-you for clicking

The 2026 Growth Benchmarks Board

The numbers founders ask us for in week one, pulled from our published research. One click on the button unlocks it. No email, no form.

One click unlocks the board

Add us as a preferred source on Google and this opens instantly. No email. No form. The unlock is the thank-you.

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Every number is published and sourced in our research: Mobile App Paywall Conversion Benchmarks (2026) and Google Ads Statistics 2026.

The feature

How Google Preferred Sources works

You do not need us to use it. Preferred Sources is a free Google Search setting that can show more relevant articles from publishers you choose in Top Stories, AI Overviews and AI Mode. Here is how to set it yourself, whoever you choose to add.

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Open Google and select your profile picture. Top right of google.com or the Google app.

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Go to Search personalization, then Source preferences. Search for any publisher and tick its checkbox.

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Deselect the same checkbox to remove one. Reload your results and the change is live.

What is Google Preferred Sources?
A free Google Search setting that lets you choose which publishers get surfaced more often in your Top Stories. Google says the same choice also tailors your AI Mode and AI Overviews. It is per-person and it changes only what you see, never what anyone else sees.
How do I add a preferred source in Google?
Two ways. Inside Google: open google.com or the Google app, select your profile picture or initial at the top right, go to Search personalization, then Source preferences, search for the source you want and tick its checkbox. Or from this page: press the button above and Google confirms in a small window while you stay here.
How do I manage or remove my preferred sources?
The same place you added them: profile picture, Search personalization, then Source preferences. Select or deselect the blue checkbox to the right of a source name and reload your results. Nothing here is permanent and you can change it as often as you like.
Do I need to be signed in to a Google account?
Yes. Google stores the preference on your account, which is what makes it hold across every browser you sign into. If you are signed out when you press the button, Google asks you to sign in first.
How many sources can I add?
Google does not publish a limit. Source preferences is a list you tick rather than a single choice, so adding one publisher does not remove another you already picked. Google does note that sources which are not updated regularly may not be available.
Does it cost anything?
No. Preferred Sources is a free Google Search setting. There is no signup, no form and no email involved, on Google’s side or ours.
Why would I add Strataigize?
We publish practical guides and analysis on growth marketing, development and AI automation, alongside case studies and benchmarks with sources you can check. Add us if that is useful to your work.

Steps and behaviour above are Google's own, from Preferred Sources in Google Search and Google's announcement. We are not affiliated with Google; this page just makes adding us a one-click version of step 2. The short definition, and what the setting does not do, is in the glossary entry for Google preferred source.

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Free, reversible anytime, and you stay on this page.

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