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A pillar page is a broad, authoritative page that covers a topic in full and links out to the more specific pages beneath it. It anchors a topic cluster, giving a subject a single central home that the supporting pages point back to. AI systems reward sources that cover a subject completely, and a pillar page is how a site signals that coverage. The pillar holds the overview and the shared vocabulary. The cluster pages hold the specifics, each linking up to the pillar and out to its siblings. Together they tell a model the site is thorough on the topic, which builds topical authority. A pillar page with no cluster beneath it is a claim without the depth to back it.

Topic cluster

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Content hub

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Internal linking

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Topical authority

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Topical completeness

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