AI content ranking
How a system picks which passage to quote. Authority, freshness, uniqueness, and whether the chunk answers the sub-query.
You do not get a public scorecard. Infer from what gets cited. Obsessing over “AI ranking factors” lists from 2024 is a hobby, not a process.
Passage quality beats domain DR more often than SEO Twitter wants to admit.
Examples
- A low-DR docs page gets cited because it has the error code. A DR90 blog does not.
Related terms
Chunking is writing sections that still make sense if a retriever lifts 100–300 words and ignores the rest of the page.
What your page adds that wasn’t already on the SERP or in the model’s memory: a number, a method, a counterexample.
Scoring a section, not the whole URL. AI Overviews already behave this way. Your H2 might win while the page “ranks” page 2.
FAQ
Is this PageRank? +
No. Links still help discovery. The selector is closer to retriever + reranker + safety.
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