{"id":189554,"date":"2025-07-08T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/?p=189554"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:51:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:51:02","slug":"does-being-mentioned-on-highly-linked-pages-influence-ai-mentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/does-being-mentioned-on-highly-linked-pages-influence-ai-mentions\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Being Mentioned on Highly Linked Pages Influence AI Mentions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro-txt\">Does being mentioned on highly cited web pages lead to more mentions in AI assistants? I\u2019m defining highly cited web pages as those with more Referring Domains (RD).<\/div>\n<p>These are prominent pages on the web and those that other websites have deemed worthy of linking to. Having your brand present on these pages means you likely have more credibility, that you\u2019re a known&nbsp;brand.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the top 50 websites mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/brand-radar\">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&nbsp;2025.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s dig&nbsp;in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"intro-tok\" id=\"intro_tok\" style=\"display:none;\"><div class=\"intro-title\">Contents<\/div><a href=\"#\" class=\"expand-dots\"><span><\/span><span><\/span><span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-nav-link clearfix\" id=\"section1\"><a class=\"subhead-anchor\" data-tip=\"tooltip__copielink\" rel=\"#section1\"><svg width=\"19\" height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 14 14\" style><g fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\"><path d=\"M0 0h14v14H0z\" \/><path d=\"M7.45 9.887l-1.62 1.621c-.92.92-2.418.92-3.338 0a2.364 2.364 0 0 1 0-3.339l1.62-1.62-1.273-1.272-1.62 1.62a4.161 4.161 0 1 0 5.885 5.884l1.62-1.62L7.45 9.886zM5.527 5.135L7.17 3.492c.92-.92 2.418-.92 3.339 0 .92.92.92 2.418 0 3.339L8.866 8.473l1.272 1.273 1.644-1.643A4.161 4.161 0 1 0 5.897 2.22L4.254 3.863l1.272 1.272zm-.66 3.998a.749.749 0 0 1 0-1.06l2.208-2.206a.749.749 0 1 1 1.06 1.06L5.928 9.133a.75.75 0 0 1-1.061 0z\" style \/><\/g><\/svg><\/a><div class=\"link-text\" data-anchor=\"Key takeaways\" data-section=\"key-takeaways\">\n<h2><a id=\"post-189554-_e4upkqkdyfhw\"><\/a>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ll give the usual correlation does not equal causation disclaimer, especially here.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t think this would be any kind of direct signal, but I was curious if there would be differences in the systems. Google AI Overviews shows a strong correlation, Perplexity a moderate correlation, and ChatGPT a very weak correlation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1264\" height=\"1200\" class=\"wp-image-189555\" src=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/word-image-189554-1.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/word-image-189554-1.png 1264w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/word-image-189554-1-448x425.png 448w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/word-image-189554-1-768x729.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1264px) 100vw, 1264px\"><\/p>\n<p>It shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise that prominent brands are mentioned on pages that website owners deemed worthy enough to link to. Google favors brands and Perplexity seems to show some favoritism as well. What\u2019s surprising is the weakness of ChatGPT here. I think they just lean heavily on partnerships for top citation sources.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this changes when we run this for a larger number of websites.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-nav-link clearfix\" id=\"section1\"><a class=\"subhead-anchor\" data-tip=\"tooltip__copielink\" rel=\"#section1\"><svg width=\"19\" height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 14 14\" style><g fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\"><path d=\"M0 0h14v14H0z\" \/><path d=\"M7.45 9.887l-1.62 1.621c-.92.92-2.418.92-3.338 0a2.364 2.364 0 0 1 0-3.339l1.62-1.62-1.273-1.272-1.62 1.62a4.161 4.161 0 1 0 5.885 5.884l1.62-1.62L7.45 9.886zM5.527 5.135L7.17 3.492c.92-.92 2.418-.92 3.339 0 .92.92.92 2.418 0 3.339L8.866 8.473l1.272 1.273 1.644-1.643A4.161 4.161 0 1 0 5.897 2.22L4.254 3.863l1.272 1.272zm-.66 3.998a.749.749 0 0 1 0-1.06l2.208-2.206a.749.749 0 1 1 1.06 1.06L5.928 9.133a.75.75 0 0 1-1.061 0z\" style \/><\/g><\/svg><\/a><div class=\"link-text\" data-anchor=\"The nerdy data\" data-section=\"nerdy-data\">\n<h2><a id=\"post-189554-_ig1kzcnay8og\"><\/a>The nerdy&nbsp;data<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Here are the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spearman%27s_rank_correlation_coefficient\">Spearman rank correlations<\/a> for mentions on highly cited web pages versus AI visibility across the top 50 domains in each system:<\/p>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-434\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-434 tablepress-responsive tablepress-ahrefs-width-720px\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">AI Assistant<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Spearman \u03c1<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Correlation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Google AI Overviews<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">0.70<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Strong<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">ChatGPT<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">0.12<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Very weak<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Perplexity<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">0.40<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Moderate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-434 from cache -->\n<h2><a id=\"post-189554-_1oix71htfmgd\"><\/a>Final thoughts<\/h2>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this changes when we run this for a larger number of websites.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you check out <a href=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/brand-radar\">Brand Radar<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1273\" height=\"2500\" class=\"wp-image-189550\" src=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-4.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-4.jpg 1273w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-4-216x425.jpg 216w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-4-768x1508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-4-782x1536.jpg 782w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-4-1043x2048.jpg 1043w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1273px) 100vw, 1273px\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are prominent pages on the web and those that other websites have deemed worthy of linking to. Having your brand present on these pages means you likely have more credibility, that you\u2019re a known&nbsp;brand. I looked at the top<span class=\"ellipsis\">\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more \u203a<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,414],"tags":[],"coauthors":[377],"class_list":["post-189554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-search","category-data-studies","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Does Being Mentioned on Highly Linked Pages Influence AI Mentions?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To find out, I looked at the top 50 websites mentioned in Ahrefs Brand Radar across 76.7M AI Overviews, 957k ChatGPT prompts, and 953.5k Perplexity prompts.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/does-being-mentioned-on-highly-linked-pages-influence-ai-mentions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Does Being Mentioned on Highly Linked Pages Influence AI Mentions?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To find out, I looked at the top 50 websites mentioned in Ahrefs Brand Radar across 76.7M AI Overviews, 957k ChatGPT prompts, and 953.5k Perplexity prompts.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/does-being-mentioned-on-highly-linked-pages-influence-ai-mentions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SEO Blog by Ahrefs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Ahrefs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"patrickstox\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-08T10:00:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-26T14:51:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/word-image-189554-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1264\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Patrick Stox\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@patrickstox\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ahrefs\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ahrefs.com\\\/blog\\\/does-being-mentioned-on-highly-linked-pages-influence-ai-mentions\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ahrefs.com\\\/blog\\\/does-being-mentioned-on-highly-linked-pages-influence-ai-mentions\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Patrick Stox\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ahrefs.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/14bf754248f3c561786477e4e5fd2067\"},\"headline\":\"Does Being Mentioned on Highly Linked Pages Influence AI Mentions?\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-08T10:00:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-26T14:51:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ahrefs.com\\\/blog\\\/does-being-mentioned-on-highly-linked-pages-influence-ai-mentions\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":411,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ahrefs.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ahrefs.com\\\/blog\\\/does-being-mentioned-on-highly-linked-pages-influence-ai-mentions\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ahrefs.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/does-being-mentioned-on-highly-linked-by-patrick-stox-data-studies.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"AI Search\",\"Data &amp; 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