TLDR: Automate SEO topical maps with ChatGPT for free; boost traffic and rankings by structuring content to avoid keyword cannibalization
This article is a summary of a You Tube video “How to Create Topical Maps with ChatGPT (FREE!)” by Julian Goldie SEO
Key Takeaways:
- Utilizing ChatGPT for Topical Maps: The speaker highlights how using ChatGPT for creating topical maps can significantly automate the process, helping websites increase traffic and improve keyword ranking efficiently.
- Free Tools for Competitor Analysis: Emphasizes the use of free versions of tools like SEMrush to analyze competitors and identify high-traffic sites for inspiration and reverse engineering of topical maps.
- Scraping Competitor Site Maps: Demonstrates how to scrape competitor site maps using tools or manually finding the sitemap.xml, which can then be used to structure your website’s topical map effectively.
- Creating Semantically Optimized Site Maps: ChatGPT can organize information from scraped site maps into semantically optimized structures, categorizing URLs into main topics and subtopics.
- Visualizing Topical Maps with AI Diagrams: The use of ChatGPT Plus and AI Diagrams plugin to visualize topical maps, which helps in avoiding keyword cannibalization and ensuring content is organized and semantically related.
- Actionable SEO-Focused Topical Maps: Details on generating actionable, semantically optimized SEO topical maps with ChatGPT, focusing on main categories and relevant subcategories for content creation.
- Comprehensive Coverage with Topical Maps: The approach ensures comprehensive coverage of topics within a niche, organizing content in a way that aligns with SEO best practices and boosts topical authority.
- Traditional Methods for Generating Topical Maps: Introduction of a traditional method that generates categories and topics, potentially creating over 900 topics, demonstrated through a practical example.
- Custom GPT Topical Map Maker: Mention of a custom GPT-based tool for creating topical maps, emphasizing the value of investing in tools like ChatGPT Plus for advanced content strategy development.
- Success Case Study: Shares a success story of a website that went from zero to increasing daily clicks using the methods described, showcasing the effectiveness of the strategy.