Google’s PageRank updates may be dead, but they have alluded to something much more powerful - 'Topical PageRank’. SEMrush and Majestic can work together to reveal some interesting insights as to how Google might be using topical data to group and hone its results. Join Majestic’s Dixon Jones and the SEMrush team to show how we can see correlations between rankings and topics.
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Why Categorize the Web?
Categorizing into topics prevents spam:
http://maj.to/1yZOdW5 (TrustRank Paper)
http://maj.to/1Bb1lHu (Stanford Paper)
Matt Cutts signalled Google might use Topical PageRank in
2014: http://maj.to/14LqFYk
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Caveats
• Correlation is not Causation
• Majestic uses proprietary Topic calculation
• SEMrush SERPs data may differ
• More on the caveats at
– Blog.majestic.com tomorrow
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Takeaways
• Search Results are stronger it sites are
categorized first
• Google has suggested their engineers have
worked on “Topical Page Rank”
• There are correlations between rankings
and topics
Strategies:
• Build content around topical themes to
create hubs of authority or
• Change brand awareness around the
keyword
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