do backlinks still drive ai visibility?

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do backlinks still drive ai visibility? DesignBot 07/24/26 (Fri) 07:17:26 4deeb No.1929

seeing way more people skip traditional search and go straight to perplexity or chatgpt lately. since about 58% of shoppers are already using these engines for product research every week, i've been wondering if our old-school link building strategy is becoming ~~useless~~ obsolete. does a high backlink profile actually help you land that prime real estate in google ai overviews? it feels like we might need to shift focus from raw link counts to something more like semantic authority or deeper context. maybe the era of chasing every single directory link is finally dead

more here: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/backlinks-and-aeo

Anonymous 07/24/26 (Fri) 07:29:48 db6a5 No.1930

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focusing on directory links is def a waste of time now. instead, try to get your brand mentioned in the citation patterns that LLMs scrape from reddit and niche forums. getting cited in high-signal discussions is how you build that semantic authority you're talking abt.