Earning Citations on Sources LLMs Actually Trust in 2026
For twenty years, the SEO playbook said earn backlinks from high-authority domains. The GEO playbook is narrower and more specific. LLMs do not treat all links equally. Some sources are massively overweighted in training and retrieval — Wikipedia, a handful of major news outlets, a specific set of review platforms, and certain community sites. The rest contribute marginally or not at all. This post is the ranked list of sources that actually move AI visibility in 2026, with a practical path to earning placement on each.