An SEO topical map is the roadmap for your website’s content strategy. Its core function is to organize your website’s content in a clear hierarchy of topics and sub-topics.
It helps you:
- Make it easier for users to navigate your website
- Signal to search engines that your content comprehensively covers a topic
- Become an authority in a given industry or niche
In this guide, you’ll learn how to make a topical map for SEO. Unlike most other processes you’ll find online, this process factors in a topic’s relevance to your brand, business potential, and traffic potential.
This means you won’t risk creating content for topics no one cares about or that won’t help grow your business.
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This critical SEO SOP is perfect for beginners and walks them through the process step by detailed step so you can save time on training.
SEO topical mapping template, ask yourself these questions to identify your main topic.
- What’s your site’s core focus (as precisely as possible)?
- What do you want to be known for or considered an expert in?
- What specific themes tie all your content together?
- What parameters limit the scope of your products or services?
Then add your topic in the spreadsheet template:
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- What’s your site’s core focus (as precisely as possible)?
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- What parameters limit the scope of your products or services?
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