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...
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...
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....
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...
Wikipedia’s Outsized Role in LLM Knowledge Graphs: A Link-Builder’s Strategic Guide
Wikipedia is simultaneously the most valuable citation asset on the open web and the one asset to which the conventional...
Reddit’s #1 AI Citation Dominance: A Topic-by-Topic Breakdown
Reddit is the most-cited domain in AI search. Across 30 million directly cited sources, Peec AI found it ranked first...
Why LinkedIn Became the #2 AI Citation Source (and How to Earn LinkedIn-Style Citations)
In November 2025, LinkedIn sat around #11 on the list of domains ChatGPT cited most. By February 2026 it had climbed...
Reverse-Engineering the Ahrefs 17M AI Citation Study: 12 Patterns Link Builders Must Act On
Here is the finding that should reorganise your 2026 link-building budget, and almost nobody is acting on it. When Ahrefs...