AI Chatbots Are Making Reddit a Prime Target for SEO Manipulation
Reddit has become the most-cited domain by leading AI chatbots, according to new data from Semrush, and that status is attracting a wave of brand manipulation that subreddit moderators are scrambling to contain. Semrush, the SEO analytics firm now owned by Adobe, compiled data for The Verge showing that Reddit was the most-cited domain in May 2026 by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and Google AI Mode combined. It outranked every news publisher, every scholarly article repository, and Wikipe
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