Day 0 Experiment: Flooding Google With a Topical Authority Cluster

awesomewebsites said:

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Torel said:

Case Study -> Day 0​

Will a aggresive Topical Authority strategy work with a brand new site?​

The website is about "topical authority" where some sites like Ahrefs and Sumrush dominate, so probably the competition is pretty high.
Site age is brand new ....
Site has Core SEO metadata (meta tags, OG tags, and Schema) is in place on every public page.
What the site launched with:

• 1 root-hub -> /guides/topical-authory
• 1 complete topical pillar -> /guides/topical-authority/definition
• ~25 articles planned and published using our own Topical Authority workflow
• Content generated and structured using TopicalHQ - AI tools ( The site itself is basically a SEO platform where u can generate Topical Authority sitemaps, do keyword research and create articles with AI)
• Full internal linking based on topical maps (not isolated articles)

For context each Root Hub page will link to each Pillar Page, and each Pillar Page will link back to the Root Hub Page and to 25 Articles and the Articles will each have 7 links in them ... 5-6 links to Articles in the same Pillar, one link to the Pillar itself and maybe 1 link Cross Pillars.
I've asked chat gpt to make a image so you guys can understand better but it seems it's kidda stupid so I had to do it myself

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The strategy I'll be using is a Topical Authority BURST strategy where I will push 1 Pillar with 25 Articles each week for the first month, then I will increase to 2 Pillars / Week so that's about 50 Articles per week, that way I hope google will push me faster, you would wonder why and here is the answer:

When you publish one article, Google sees:

• an isolated document
• weak topical confidence
• little context

When you publish 25 interlinked articles in the same topic, Google sees:

• a topic graph
• consistent entities, terminology, intent
• clear topical boundaries

That lets Google answer faster:

Answering that faster = faster trust.

Batch publishing creates immediate internal reinforcement
Publishing 25 articles at once does three things immediately:

• Internal links exist from day one
• Pillar ↔ article relationships are visible instantly
• Semantic overlap appears simultaneously, not over months

So instead of:




Google gets:


Hope this makes sense.

Technical setup:
- I've created Google Search Console account and submitted the sitemap.xml to it.
- I've created a LinkedIn account and a short intro post
- I've created a Facebook account and a short intro post
- I've created X (Twitter) account and of course a short intro post
- I've also created an YouTube account, planning to make some videos, but for now haven't used it yet.

No campaigns, no ads — just letting the site exist and be discovered.

From here, the plan is simple:

• monitor indexing
• observe crawl behavior
• iterate on content and structure
• document what actually happens

The site was indexed already with 10 pages as of 12 Jan 2026, that's pretty sweet, google indexed it very fast, since the site is brand new.

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We’ll continue posting updates as things evolve — good or bad.

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Torel said:

Quick update. Pillar #3 is now live. Same approach as before: strict adherence to the topical map, no random articles, no filler. At this point the site has 3 pillars online, roughly 75 supporting articles total, all interlinked from day one (pillar ↔ articles ↔ light cross-pillar where it actually makes sense). Still zero backlinks, zero outreach, zero ads.

What’s interesting is how Google is reacting.

Indexing is happening fast. New pillar pages are getting indexed within hours, and the supporting articles usually the same day or the next. Google Search Console is clearly lagging behind reality — a site: query shows far more URLs indexed than GSC reports. That alone tells me the structure + internal linking is enough for discovery, even on a brand new domain.

Crawl behavior is also changing. Google isn’t just touching the pillar URLs anymore. It’s going deeper, following article-to-article paths inside the same pillar. That’s an important shift. It suggests Google already sees each pillar as a topic section, not as isolated pages floating around.

Traffic-wise, nothing impressive yet — and that’s expected. We’re talking single digits to low double digits per day. At this stage, traffic honestly doesn’t matter. What matters is crawl consistency and indexing speed. That’s where trust starts, not with clicks.
But just to have some reference here is an image of the current traffic:
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I also want to add some early usage context, because this isn’t just “indexed pages sitting there”.

Over the last 30 days the site recorded around 600+ sessions from ~200 unique visitors, all organic/discovery-based. Almost 90% of users are on desktop, ~74% on Chrome, very little mobile or tablet usage. That’s exactly the audience you’d expect for a technical SEO / tooling site, not casual browsing. People are landing inside pillars and articles, not just the homepage, which is another good sign.

Important clarification: this is not a “spam AI content and pray” experiment.

The hypothesis is very narrow and very specific: can aggressive topical completeness compensate for zero backlinks, zero domain age, and a highly competitive niche — at least at the crawl, indexing, and early trust layer?

So far, the answer looks like yes, at least on the infrastructure side of trust.

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