--- title: "Social Links Appear in 67.66% of Google AI Overviews | traxy" description: "An SE Ranking study of 100,000 keywords found social platform links in 67.66% of Google AI Overviews, 32.39% of AI Mode replies and 8.4% of ChatGPT answers." canonical: "https://traxy.ai/news/social-links-show-up-in-67-66-of-google-ai-overviews-your-linkedin-posts-now-work-double-shifts" last_updated: "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z" --- # Social Links Appear in 67.66% of Google AI Overviews | traxy > An SE Ranking study of 100,000 keywords found social platform links in 67.66% of Google AI Overviews, 32.39% of AI Mode replies and 8.4% of ChatGPT answers. [Home](https://traxy.ai/) [News](https://traxy.ai/news) News # Social Links Show Up in 67.66% of Google AI Overviews — Your LinkedIn Posts Now Work Double Shifts An SE Ranking study of 100,000 keywords found social platform links in 67.66% of Google AI Overviews, 32.39% of AI Mode replies and 8.4% of ChatGPT answers. By the traxy teamOct 14, 20262 min read ![Social Links Show Up in 67.66% of Google AI Overviews — Your LinkedIn Posts Now Work Double Shifts — traxy news](https://traxy.ai/assets/news-covers/social-links-show-up-in-67-66-of-google-ai-overviews-your-linkedin-posts-now-work-double-shifts.jpg) **In this story**[The numbers](https://traxy.ai/news/social-links-show-up-in-67-66-of-google-ai-overviews-your-linkedin-posts-now-work-double-shifts#the-numbers) [Why it matters](https://traxy.ai/news/social-links-show-up-in-67-66-of-google-ai-overviews-your-linkedin-posts-now-work-double-shifts#why-it-matters) [What to do now](https://traxy.ai/news/social-links-show-up-in-67-66-of-google-ai-overviews-your-linkedin-posts-now-work-double-shifts#what-to-do-now) [Open product docs](https://docs.traxy.ai/) An SE Ranking study of 100,000 keywords found links to social platforms in 67.66% of Google AI Overviews, [Social Media Today reported](https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/ai-favors-brands-with-an-active-social-media-presence/832450/) on Wednesday, October 7, 2026. The same links appeared in 32.39% of Google AI Mode replies and 8.4% of ChatGPT answers. The study looked at keywords across a range of brand niches to see which sources Google and AI chatbots cite. YouTube was the most-cited source in AI Overviews. In ChatGPT, Reddit and LinkedIn were the top social platforms, though Reddit, LinkedIn and Facebook each appeared in fewer than 1% of its answers. ## The numbers - **Google AI Overviews:** 67.66% of responses included a social link. - **Google AI Mode:** 32.39%, about half the AI Overviews rate. - **ChatGPT:** 8.4%, roughly one-eighth of the AI Overviews rate. - **AI Mode, by query type:** social sources appeared in 39.34% of branded and 48.58% of non-branded responses. Facebook, YouTube and Reddit were cited most. Citations also move. In August, Search Engine Land reported that Reddit's share of ChatGPT search citations fell 86.4% in four days. ## Why it matters Same post. Two jobs. It reaches buyers in the feed, and it can become a source an AI engine cites when a buyer researches the category. The math says which job is reliable. A 67.66% citation rate in AI Overviews makes social content a real input to Google's AI answers. Below 1% per platform in ChatGPT does not. And an 86.4% drop in four days shows any one engine's citations can disappear quickly. So treat AI citations as a bonus, not the plan. The part you control is the post, and the people who engage with it. That audience is yours whatever an engine decides next week. See [how to build a LinkedIn content strategy that generates leads](https://traxy.ai/blog/linkedin-content-strategy-lead-generation) and [which engagement signals matter](https://traxy.ai/blog/linkedin-engagement-signals-explained) . ## What to do now - Post on the questions buyers ask about your category, in plain language that's easy to quote. - Track which engines cite you separately. 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