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Selection Rate Optimization
The AI-search counterpart to CTR optimization: improving how often AI systems select your content as the grounding source for their generated answers.
Selection Rate Optimization (SRO) is the AI-search counterpart to click-through-rate optimization. It is the practice of making an AI system more likely to choose your content as a grounding source when it composes an answer, giving a brand preferential presence in AI search.
The metric it moves is the Selection Rate. Full article: Selection Rate Optimization. Related: Relevance Engineering and AI Visibility.
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Selection Rate Optimization
Selection Rate Optimization is the AI-search counterpart to click-through-rate optimization: improving how often AI systems choose your content as the source they ground and cite their answers on.