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.

Only 16% of brands appear when their customers ask AIs. Does yours?

Every question asked to ChatGPT without your name in the answer is a competitor recommended instead of you — measured across 6,820 real AI answers.

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