The Dark Funnel and Backlinks: Measuring Unattributable Link Influence
Look at where the most aggressively marketed B2B companies on earth get their traffic. Per Similarweb, direct traffic — the...
Demand Generation and Link Building: Where the Two Disciplines Actually Meet
In most organisations, demand generation and link building live in different worlds. The demand-gen team reports to a CMO, talks...
Branded Search Volume as the New Link KPI: A 2026 Measurement Framework
Here is a number that should change how you report link building: in Ahrefs' large-scale brand-visibility study, branded search volume...
Schema Markup for AI Citation: The 2026 Mark-up Cheatsheet
For most of its history, schema markup had one job: to win rich results. You added structured data, and Google...
AI Answer-Box Hijacking: How to Replace a Cited Competitor (2026 Data Guide)
Traditional search is graded. You move from position 10 to position 6 to position 3, and every step earns a...
Building an AI Share of Voice (SoV) Dashboard From Scratch (2026 Data Guide)
Here's a number that should reframe how you think about visibility: AI-referred traffic reportedly converts somewhere between 4.4x and 6x...
Forum-First Link Building: Why AI Search Has Resurrected Forums (2026 Playbook)
Ten years ago, telling someone to build links on forums was career advice you gave to people you didn't like....
Quora & Stack Exchange: The Q&A Citation Layer Most Brands Ignore
Updated May 2026 · Link Building Journal · Style: Backlinko conversational · ~25 min read Here's a paradox that breaks...
G2, Capterra & Trustpilot: Review Sites as AI Citation Infrastructure
Here is a finding that should change where B2B software brands spend their next quarter. When researchers analysed the tools...
YouTube’s 200x Citation Advantage: How to Turn Video Into a Link Building Asset
Let me start with the stat that should reorganise how you think about video. In Google's AI Overviews, the single...