Step 1.3 · Topical Structure

SERP Analysis: What Content Ranks on Google

Graph the top Google results to verify your topical clusters and surface what search engines treat as important that the LLM view misses.

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The next step is to understand current informational demand: what content in your domain ranks high on search engines. This verifies the topical clusters from Step 1.1 and ensures you also include the clusters search engines consider important for the query or domain.

Here it usually makes sense to run the analysis on keywords, not entities, to give the model richer context for extracting clusters. Use the Google search results analysis tool to get the graph:

Knowledge graph of the top Google search results for 'topical authority'
A graph of what ranks on Google for 'topical authority' — the content search engines currently reward.

As in Step 1.1, save these clusters and generate AI summaries into your Project Notes. Comparing to the LLM output, three clusters stand out:

  • Content Quality
  • Entity Coverage
  • Information Sources

These clusters do not really exist in the first LLM graph, so they may be particularly important for Google to assume a page or site has authority on the subject. You can click each topic to study the actual search results in more detail, or ask the MCP server to add the statements to your context.