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Topical Authority Map

πŸ—ΊοΈ Topical Authority Map

See your real published articles grouped into topic pillars, so you can spot which subject areas you've actually covered and which are still thin.

Building topical authority β€” the state where Google recognises you as an expert on an entire subject area, not just individual keywords β€” requires covering a topic comprehensively. The Topical Authority Map groups your real published articles into pillar topics so you can see your actual coverage at a glance, from the Topical Map tab in your dashboard.

How the map is built

IndexPine looks at your site's real published articles and their target keywords, and groups them into 2–6 pillar topics based on genuine subject-matter similarity. Every article shown under a pillar is a real, already-published article on your site β€” nothing is invented. This runs when you open the tab, not on a background schedule, and needs at least 3 published articles to produce a meaningful grouping.

Reading the map

Each pillar card lists the real articles IndexPine grouped under it. A pillar with just one or two articles is a topic you've barely started; a pillar with many is one you have real depth in. Use this to decide where your next few articles should go β€” deepening a thin pillar, or starting a new one entirely.

What this doesn't do (yet)
This is a read-only view over your own content β€” it doesn't track competitor coverage, per-cluster rankings, or drive Autopilot's keyword selection automatically. Internal linking between related articles is real and handled separately (see how article generation works), but it isn't sourced from this map.