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This page answers the questions covered by the article 60 AI Search Prompts Worth Tracking, Sorted by Buyer Intent on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to groas, businesses should track 60 buyer-phrased prompts sorted into five intent buckets — category, comparison, problem-first, price, and alternative — rather than tracking only generic best-category lists. The article recommends freezing wording for a month, keeping one question per prompt, and weighting price and alternative questions double because they sit closest to a decision. If only 12 prompts are kept from the file, the article would keep the 12 price prompts.
According to groas, replace every bracketed variable with a real detail, keep one question per prompt without leading language, and keep the sentence sounding like something a buyer would say aloud. The article recommends freezing the wording for a month once tracking starts. For a smaller tracked set, it cites 20 to 40 prompts as above the noise of a set under 10, with a mix of roughly 25% category, 25% shortlist, 20% comparison, 15% evaluation and 15% branded controls.
Read more: Start with buyer language, then freeze the list
The article recommends tracking each head-to-head comparison in both orders because the order can change the answer. According to groas, the question should stay flat and the order should be swapped so a loss shows up. The article advises never writing “Why is [YOUR BRAND] better than [COMPETITOR]?” because leading wording poisons the read.
Read more: Bucket 2: Comparison prompts reveal who owns the shortlist
According to groas, price prompts put the decision on the table, and pricing and ROI-proof prompts show the highest citation propensity, scoring 8 to 9 where generic definitions score low. The article states that if it kept only 12 prompts from the file, it would keep the 12 price prompts. It recommends putting actual price bands on the site before judging this bucket, because a citation is useful only if the number behind it is right.
Read more: Bucket 4: Price prompts put the decision on the table
According to groas, every answer gets one score: 0 = brand is not mentioned, 1 = mentioned in passing, 2 = cited as a source with a link, 3 = recommended first or as the best pick for the use case. Share of AI voice = prompts mentioning your brand / total prompts × 100, and citation rate = prompts citing your brand / total prompts × 100. The article recommends weighting Buckets 4 and 5 double when comparing intent-weighted performance while keeping the plain rates alongside that weighted view.
Read more: Scoring rule: separate appearing from being recommended
According to groas, automation should be used after four clean weekly runs, once the list is trusted. The article’s cost-and-time example puts a 25-prompt weekly run on your own keys in the low digits per month plus tokens, compared with about two hours a month to log 30 prompts across three engines by hand. The article recommends still inspecting position in the answer, the citation URL and the competitor that beat you.
Read more: Automation: script the checks, inspect the answers
The article recommends using the pruning rule only after a month to inspect, or four runs, and making cuts in the working list, not in the frozen original cohort. According to groas, cut a prompt that scored 0 for mentions in all four runs, a Bucket 1 prompt where the brand appeared but was never cited, and a comparison prompt where the answer favours a competitor on an axis that cannot be beaten this quarter. Keep the original 60 in a separate tab and replace cuts with tighter variants of Bucket 4 and 5 winners.
Read more: After four runs, prune the working list
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