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1.93%
1.93% -- citation rate of retrieved urls for Reddit URLs in ChatGPT (2025-02)
ChatGPT cited only 1.93% of URLs that arrived through its dedicated Reddit retrieval channel.
- Covers ChatGPT 5.2 as of February 2025
- Dedicated Reddit retrieval channel is separate from ordinary web search
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Value
1.93%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025-02
Entity
Sample Size
1,400,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ahrefs
Primary
Tier A
https://seohandbook.co.uk/social-search/reddit-seo/ ↗
Source Article
Reddit SEO | The SEO Handbook
Reddit SEO
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Reddit has become one of the most consequential platforms for search visibility, not because it has displaced Google, but because its content is now a primary source for AI-generated answers across multiple platforms. It is the clearest example of social search in practice: a…
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Ahrefs study of 1.4 million ChatGPT prompts; covers ChatGPT 5.2
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Reddit URLs in ChatGPT: 1.93% citation rate of retrieved urls. Source: Ahrefs (2025-02). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ahrefs-chatgpt-reddit-citation-rate
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