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Why Topic Clusters
will help you gain
search visibility
and customers
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First things first...
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Everyone count your lucky stars…
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I had some audience participation
planned here.
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Hello!
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Hello!
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Hello!
@itsmaret @brambleoforange
Bramble when she was
little and very cute.
I mean, look at her!
She’s still pretty cute.
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Enough about Bramble
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Let’s talk Topic Clusters
What even are they?
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A topic cluster is a group of
interlinked pages on a website
which talk about different areas
within the same topic.
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Like this:
Pillar
page
Cluster
content
Cluster
content
Cluster
content
Cluster
content
Cluster
content
Cluster
content
Cluster
content
Cluster
content
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Why would you use topic clusters
on your website?
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“Search Engines aren’t your
customers, humans are.”
Justin Champion, HubSpot
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Your Target Audience
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Active Annie
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The way people buy today
is different to 15, 10 and
even 5 years ago.
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15+ years ago
Direct Mail
In-store
assistant
Purchase
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So many more options now
Search
engine
PurchaseEbook
download
Email
Social
media ad Ads Reviews
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Buyer’s journey
Search
engine
PurchaseEbook
download
Email
Social
media ad Ads Reviews
Awareness Consideration Decision
Why would you use topic clusters
on your website?
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BERT
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BERT
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Implementing BERT has helped Google
understand natural language better.
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Google are no longer looking for the
most instances of a keyword in a webpage,
but rather the webpage that best matches the
INTENT behind that keyword
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E-A-T
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Creating topic clusters will help
search engines understand that your
business is an authority in the field.
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Internal linking helps!
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Awareness
Consideration
Decision
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“Write really great content for your
users and fulfill the intent that they
are seeking”
Britney Muller, Moz
How to create topic clusters
for your own website
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Keyword Research
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“The key is to start thinking in
terms of TOPICS you want to own,
not just keywords.”
Leslie Ye, HubSpot
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And you probably already have those topics,
thanks to your keyword research!
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Let’s put it into action
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You’ve done your
keyword research
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Audit existing content
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Audit existing content
(both online and offline)
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Talk to Sales and CS
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Divide into pillar pages,
cluster and target content
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Awareness
Consideration
Decision
Working dogs
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Make sure topic clusters
are set up correctly
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Make sure your
internal links aren’t broken
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What do you do once you’ve
implemented topic clusters?
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Plan
Do
Review
Improve
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Expand your topics
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Keep answering questions
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Working
dogs
Dog toys
Puppies
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In summary
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- Know which topics you want to “own”
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- Know which topics you want to “own”
- Write unique content for humans
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- Know which topics you want to “own”
- Write unique content for humans
- Create an internal linking infrastructure
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- Know which topics you want to “own”
- Write unique content for humans
- Create an internal linking infrastructure
- Keep.
@itsmaret || #brightonseo
- Know which topics you want to “own”
- Write unique content for humans
- Create an internal linking infrastructure
- Keep. Answering.
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- Know which topics you want to “own”
- Write unique content for humans
- Create an internal linking infrastructure
- Keep. Answering. Questions.
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Thank you!
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Resources
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/topic-clusters-seo
https://www.daniel-brooks.co.uk/blog/keyword-research-for-beginners/
https://www.aira.net/blog/how-to-automatically-categorise-keywords-for-the-buyers-journey/
https://optimisey.com/seo-advice/an-introduction-to-search-intent/
https://moz.com/blog/what-is-bert
https://www.briggsby.com/on-page-seo-for-nlp
https://sitebulb.com/hints/internal/broken-internal-urls/
https://www.inlinks.net/
https://www.instagram.com/brambleoforange/
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