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New compilation of research on David Farkas' The Upper Link website: The Link Building Signal AI Search Engines Care About Most About

Note the section sub-titled "Getting Cited in AI Search Starts With How You Build Links". Links alone are not good for AI visibility, but how many have changed how they build links?

No source clients I know have used have charged extra which surprises me. Sources may in the future.

There is so much posted online about AI and SEO for AI that I've been pondering how to get a handle on all the research so I can write about it. If anyone has any ideas on that, I'm all ears.

I came across https://marketingtech.ai/, created by Tom Pick of Webbiquity. He has AI Tools sorted by type + a newsletter + a blog where he reviews the top choices for particular tasks.

Some local businesses are at a disadvantage due to their location. AI could be a solution for some of them:

"Your business should be investigating where and how you are showing up in AI Overviews, even if your address is making you less visible than you’d like to be in traditional local pack/Maps results."

Miriam Ellis and Darren Shaw publish some of the best research and experience based SEO information on Darren's site Whitespark.ca. So I messaged them on LinkedIn the most challenging local SEO issues I've seen in my decades online.

They turned that into a guide named How to Rank in Surrounding Cities or Towns: Every Local SEO Strategy You Need to Know.

I've followed Jayson for a long time because of the high quality of the content published in his name on multiple major websites. We are connected on LinkedIn so I received an early invitation to his new newsletter.

He seems to be using it as a round-up of AI SEO news of the week. The first edition is at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/googles-two-contradicting-moves-plus-may-2026-core-update-demers-sufsf/