A backlink is a hyperlink from another website pointing to your site. Backlinks are a key ranking factor for SEO and influence how AIs perceive your content's authority.

What is a Backlink?

A backlink is a link from an external website to yours, serving as a 'vote of confidence' in your content.

Backlink Quality

  • High quality: From authoritative, relevant sites
  • Low quality: From spam or unrelated sites
  • Anchor text: The clickable text matters

Backlinks and AEO

Being linked by authoritative sources helps AIs recognize your content as trustworthy and worth citing.

When a customer asks AIs without naming a brand, someone else gets recommended. What about the brands you manage?

Every question asked to ChatGPT without the brand in the answer is a competitor recommended in its place: measured across 6,820 real AI answers.