{"id":189111,"date":"2025-06-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/?p=189111"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:51:18","slug":"domain-link-metrics-not-good-mention-predictors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/domain-link-metrics-not-good-mention-predictors\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain-Level Link Metrics May Not Be Good Predictors of AI Search Mentions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Going into this study, I suspected that domain-level link metrics would not be a good predictor for mentions. I was expecting Google AI Overviews to show more of a correlation since they may use some of the traditional search signals, whereas the other systems may not. For traditional search, usually the page-level metrics are more predictive of rankings than domain-level ones.<\/div>\n\n\n\n

I looked at the top 50 websites mentioned in Ahrefs Brand Radar<\/a> for Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. This is across ~76.7M AI Overviews, 957k ChatGPT prompts, and 953.5k Perplexity prompts for the month of June 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I compared the website mentions to their Ahrefs Rank (AR) in Ahrefs. Ahrefs Rank (AR) ranks all the websites in our database in order, by the size and quality of their followed referring domains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sidenote.<\/div>Brand Radar isn\u2019t just another LLM visibility monitor, we track a large amount of queries across all of these systems and you can query for any product, service, or brand and compare vs competitors. It\u2019s more like Site Explorer than it is Rank Tracker. Plus we have the web visibility index so that you can see how you\u2019re talked about online and the search demand index to see how popular you are in searches.<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what Brand Radar looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let\u2019s dig in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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