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# [Backlink Graphs and AI Page Authority, A Pre-Registered Experiment On Whether PageRank Still Matters](https://cihangir-bozdogan.hashnode.dev/backlink-graphs-and-ai-page-authority-a-pre-registered-experiment-on-whether-pagerank-still-matters?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A field report on running the same article on three properties (a fresh domain, an aged domain, and a high-authority subpath) and watching AI assistants pick a clear winner. The mechanism is not PageRank. It is link-graph features inherited from the search index the assistant grounds against.

May 10 · 21 min read · cihangir-bozdogan.hashnode.dev  
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I build things on the internet so other things on the internet can find them. I write about AI search, the weird new economics of visibility. I spend my days deep in code, my evenings reading about AI ranking signals, and my weekends pretending I'll finally take a break. I write here about what I'm building, what's breaking, and what I wish someone had told me before I started.

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