Google AI Mode Backlinks: 12 → 12,867 AI Impressions a Day
Want to make money and save time with AI? Join here: https://www.skool.com/ai-profit-lab-7462/about Video notes + links to the tools 👉 https://www.skool.com/ai-profit-lab-7462/about Get a FREE AI Course + Community + 1,000 AI Agents 👉https://www.skool.com/ai-seo-with-julian-goldie-1553/about Order AI SEO here → https://go.juliangoldie.com/backlink-portal Free GEO & AI SEO Checklist! https://orders.goldie.agency/signup Get a FREE GEO + AEO Strategy Session → https://go.juliangoldie.com/strategy-session?utm=julian Get 200+ Free AI SEO Prompts → https://go.juliangoldie.com/chat-gpt-prompts?utm=julian Get our free SEO Link Building Book here: https://go.juliangoldie.com/opt-in?utm=julian 🔗 Get a Link Building Gameplan: https://go.juliangoldie.com/backlinks-gameplan-4162 🚀 Get our best AI SEO training in the AI Profit Boardroom: https://www.skool.com/ai-profit-lab-7462/about My Search Console Generative AI report went from 12 Google AI impressions a day (May 18) to 12,867 a day (Oct 26) — 365,000 since May. A big part of it was backlinks. Here's how a link gets you named in Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, what four big studies found, and the exact 7-step outreach loop we use (including the 4-line email that gets the quotes). ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 12 → 12,867 AI impressions a day 0:55 What the Search Console AI report shows 1:54 3 ways a link gets you named in AI answers 2:40 Link Building Gameplan 3:17 What 4 big studies found 4:15 The 7-step outreach loop 6:11 Where the Linker bot fits 6:35 What this does not prove 7:00 What to do this week 7:29 AI Profit Boardroom 📌 Facts in this video • aiprofitboardroom.com: 12 Google AI impressions/day on May 18 → 12,867 on Oct 26, 2026 (Search Console, Generative AI report); ~365,000 since May, ~205,000 in October • Google search: 70,900 clicks + 3.54M impressions in 16 months; 328 clicks/month (Oct 2025) → 18,036 (Sep 2026) • Ahrefs: 777 referring domains; brand in 128 AI responses (55 AI Mode, 29 AI Overviews, 24 Perplexity, 18 Gemini) • Ahrefs (75K brands): branded web mentions 0.664, branded anchors 0.527, backlinks 0.218 correlation with AI Overview visibility • Ahrefs (4M AI Overview URLs): ~38% also rank in Google's top 10 • SE Ranking (129K domains): past 32K referring domains, ChatGPT citations rise from 2.9 to 5.6 • Pitchbox: referring domains had the strongest link to how ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini ranked software • Correlation, not causation — one site, your numbers will differ 🔗 Sources Google Search Central — How links are used + AI features and your website (developers.google.com/search) Ahrefs — AI Overview brand visibility study + AI Overview citations study (ahrefs.com/blog) SE Ranking — ChatGPT citations vs referring domains study (seranking.com/blog) Pitchbox — AI software recommendations study (pitchbox.com) daily.dev — Best subreddits for AI coding: https://daily.dev/blog/best-subreddits-for-ai-coding #Backlinks #LinkBuilding #AIOverviews #AIMode #GEO #AISEO #SEO #ChatGPTSEO
