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.
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.