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73.2%
73.2% -- share of respondents believing backlinks influence ai search visibility for SEO professionals (2025)
73.2% of surveyed respondents believe backlinks influence the chance of appearing in AI search results.
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73.2%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Sample Size
500
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
editorial.link
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Tier B
https://juicify.digital/blog/are-ai-overviews-killing-seo-and-link-building/ ↗
Source Article
Are AI Overviews Killing SEO and Link Building? - Juicify
AI overviews seo have created a worldwide buzz recently, by starting a new era of search results – brief and clear summaries right at the top of the search list. While the user experience leveled up significantly, the SEO world is left in dismay – are search optimization and link building still aliv…
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SEO professionals: 73.2% share of respondents believing backlinks influence ai search visibility. Source: editorial.link (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/backlinks-influence-ai-results-73-2
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