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    After going through this guide, you should be able to understand and be able to develop content clusters to use in your editorial strategies to generate traffic, earned media and conversions, along with recognizing the benefits of using them in your content planning.

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    Content clusters are groups of thematically related posts or articles that support a main topic page, also known as pillar content.

    A topic cluster model organizes content pages to create a more structured and targeted site architecture. This organizational strategy focuses on clustering related articles together around specific topics, rather than spreading loosely related or unrelated content across multiple pages of a site.

    Google and other top search engines have changed their algorithms to favor content that is more topic-oriented.  This is because content clusters that are tightly woven around specific topics are easier for Google to locate and serve up in response to increasing  users’ queries, compared to content that is loosely organized. The result is easier search and indexing for Google, and better search results for users.

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