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We Analyzed 5 Million AI Citations. Domain Authority Didn't Predict Any of Them.

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By Joshua Hardwick
| surferseo.com
Last updated: June 19, 2026 It seems reasonable to assume that stronger domains have a higher chance of being cited in AI answers. But is that actually true or just a hangover assumption from the “ten blue links” era? To find out, we pulled three months of AI Tracker data from Surfer spanning 20,000 prompts and ~5 million unique citation source URLs across AI Mode, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity.
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Does AI More Strongly Recommend a Brand When More Cited Sources Mention It? (289,105 URLs Studied)

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By Joshua Hardwick
| surferseo.com
If you ask an AI assistant like ChatGPT for, say, the “best project management tool,” it’ll recommend a bunch of options in its generated response. These recommendations, at least in part, come from brand mentions on cited pages: But does AI recommend a brand more strongly—by ranking it higher in the generated response—when it’s mentioned on a larger share of the cited pages?
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The Tabloid Technique: How to Easily Land Local Links With Digital PR

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By Ryan Law, Joshua Hardwick
| ahrefs.com
Local newspapers will link to anything. Seriously. Did you run the numbers and find that people in their state pay more lifetime tax than anyone else? They’ll cover it: Did you find that their city has the worst train delays in the whole country?
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