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Topical authority

Topical authority is the credibility a site earns by covering a subject thoroughly, making every new piece on that subject easier to rank.

Topical authority is a search engine's confidence that your site genuinely knows a subject. It's built by covering a topic's important questions deeply and linking that coverage together.

It explains why focused publications outrank bigger generalists. Twenty connected pieces on one subject beat a hundred scattered ones.

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