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Does Google use Topical PageRank?
If so how can you see it in action?
Can we takeaway useful action points?
@tryMajestic
Majestic
Specialist Search Engine
Digital knowledge on a grand scale
Dixon Jones
@tryMajestic
The BIG specialist search engine
Twitter has 500,000,000
Tweets per day on average
In the same day, Majestic
crawls well over 2,000,000,000
NEW URLs (and sees 7 billion)
@tryMajestic
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
@tryMajestic
Approaches to defining topics
@tryMajestic
Approaches to defining topics
@tryMajestic
Approaches to defining topics
Topical Trust
Flow using
decay
Algorithm
???
@tryMajestic
Who is more popular on Twitter?
Use case: Finding influencers
Lady Gaga? Barack Obama?
Trust Flow
74
Trust Flow
70
@tryMajestic
Let’s go and see Topical
Pagerank in Action
@tryMajestic
Example: Credit Cards
@tryMajestic
Example: “Majestic” (Low correlation)
@tryMajestic
Example: “the whitehouse”
@majesticseo
Caveats
• Correlation is not Causation
• Majestic uses proprietary Topic calculation
• SEMrush SERPs data may differ
• More on the caveats at
– Blog.majestic.com tomorrow
@majesticseo
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
@tryMajestic
Out of Trust Flows
understanding
Real insight into the world wide web from
Majestic,the specialist search engine
From Trust Flows Understanding

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Does Google use Topical PageRank? If so how can you see it in action?