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Backlinks Needed to Rank Google 2025: ChatGPT Era Analysis [SEO Data]
Vikas Thakur · · 18 min readThe numbers tell different stories. Google needs 200-500 quality backlinks for competitive keywords, but ChatGPT operates on fundamentally different principles with only 12% URL overlap. Here's what the research reveals about optimising for both platforms.