DEJAN's new ablation tool measures which sentences in AI-cited sources earn 4.1 of 5 rank places

dejanseo · x · 2026-10-20

DEJAN's Content Optimizer added an Ablation tab for AI search optimization: it runs a grounded prompt against Google, OpenAI or Anthropic models and measures how many rank places each sentence of the top cited source is worth. In a public demo, one sentence of Semrush's Sensor page (cited first, baseline rank 3rd) accounted for +4.10±0.10 of its 5 rank places, while the brand name — appearing four times — measured +0.10±0.10, effectively zero. The pitch: stop tracking prompts and start optimizing the grounding chunks that actually drive selection and in-context rankings.

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