B
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30%
30% -- citation lift for AI search engines (@id entity linking vs standalone schema declarations) (2026)
BestSEO portfolio data shows approximately 30 to 50 percent additional citation lift from using @id entity linking compared to standalone schema declarations.
- Reported as a range of roughly 30 to 50 percent based on internal consultancy portfolio data with no disclosed methodology
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Value
30%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
BestSEO
Primary
Tier C
https://www.bestseo.sg/blog/geo-schema-generative-era/ ↗
Source Article
GEO Schema: Structured Data for the Generative Era
Original Research
BestSEO
· Original study ↗
Methodology
Range 30-50%; midpoint reported. Based on consultancy 'portfolio data', no methodology disclosed.
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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AI search engines (@id entity linking vs standalone schema declarations): 30% citation lift. Source: BestSEO (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/id-linking-citation-lift-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/id-linking-citation-lift-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>30%</strong> -- citation lift for AI search engines (@id entity linking vs standalone schema declarations)<br><small>Source: BestSEO (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/id-linking-citation-lift-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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