How the Topical Map Works (Pro)

If you want ChatGPT and Perplexity to mention your website, random blog posts will not cut it. You need to cover a whole topic, start to finish. That is called topical authority. The Topical Map is how you build it. It looks at your real Google data and turns it into a simple plan: every topic your site needs, what you have already written, and what is missing. By the end of this page you will know exactly what to write next, and how to use the feature.

Where to find it

Go to AEO God Mode then Content Gaps. Stay on the Gap Scanner tab, then click the third button in the row underneath: Topical Map.

Where the map comes from

This is the part that makes the map worth trusting. It does not guess. To build a data-driven map it reads several sources at once and mixes them together:

• Your Google Search Console data. The impressions you get, the clicks you get, and the actual queries people type to find you.
• Your existing content. Every page already on your site, so the map knows what you cover and what you do not.
• Keyword data for the whole market (Growth). Your entire subject area, including topics you do not rank for at all, with monthly search volume and intent.
• Your seed keywords. A list you add yourself. This could be from keyword research, or just topic ideas you have. The map mixes them in with your Google data, keyword knowledge and existing content.

It then uses an AI layer to find the content gaps, and organises everything into topic clusters, also called hubs.

Clusters: the hub and spoke method

If you know the hub-and-spoke method, this is exactly it. Each cluster has one main pillar topic in the centre, for example “A Complete Guide to Grinding Coffee at Home”. Around it sit the spokes, all the smaller topics that link back to the pillar and to each other. A big green check means the page is already written and live. A dashed circle means it is not written yet, and the pillar itself can be a gap too.

Reading a topic, and the internal links

Click any page in a cluster to see why it should exist. For a gap you get the exact question a page here would win, how many people search it each month, the other questions it would answer, and which of your existing pages it should link to.

Here is the best part. When you generate the content, it automatically adds contextual internal links to the relevant posts. You do not have to do that yourself, it happens on autopilot. The panel tells you upfront which pages you will link to and get links back from, and then it wires those links into the draft for you.

One page, one target

Every page the map suggests is anchored to exactly one thing. If it is keyword driven, that keyword goes in the title and the web address. If it is question driven, the exact question does. No two pages ever chase the same term, so you never end up competing with yourself.

The list view, and export to CSV

If you want a clear list of everything the map is suggesting, click List and scroll down. You get a clean view of every topic: which are live, which are in draft, which are not written yet, and the search volume for each. You can also Export CSV. So if you have another method for writing your content, you can take the whole topical map out and use it however you like.

Add your own seed keywords

Open Seed keywords to tell the map the territories you want to cover, even ones you have no rankings for yet. Type one keyword or phrase per line, or upload a CSV from your keyword tool. Saving is free. On Growth, the next market pull searches your seeds first, and the next territory design has to place every one, or tell you honestly why it could not.

Redesign your territory, or rebuild the map

If you do not like the first map it generates, you can run it again. Rebuild map reshuffles everything from your latest Search Console data and existing content. On Growth, Design my territory reads every source together and comes back with named topics, a reason each one exists, and a page for every keyword and question, bottom of the funnel first, and Refresh market does a fresh pull of the whole-market keyword data.

Because there is an AI layer, the map can come back a little differently each time, depending on how the AI reads the data. That is normal. It is looking at your Search Console data, your existing posts and your seed keywords, so if you add new seed keywords and then rebuild, the map takes all of that into consideration.

Everything goes to draft first

When you generate, whether it is a basic blog post draft, a long-form pillar piece, or just an outline, it never goes straight to publish. It always goes to your Drafts. So you generate it, go and check it over, make your edits, and then you hit Publish yourself. You stay in control of what goes live.

Give it your business facts: the Knowledge Base

Generating content with pure AI is still a risk, even now that the models are very good, if you leave it to its own devices. When you are talking about pricing or anything specific to your brand, you want to give the AI a Knowledge Base to pull from.

Under Settings then Knowledge Base, upload your documents as TXT, Markdown, CSV or PDF, up to 8 MB each. It reads that data and organises it neatly in the background, so when you generate content it can pull the right facts from the right place. You could upload a pricing document, competitor documentation, or any up-to-date, very specific company knowledge. Your drafts are then written using that information, not just pure AI.

You choose when it is used: always use your documents on every generation, or always ask so you decide each time. We keep only the text, never the original files.

What the buttons cost

• Design my territory and Rebuild map cost 5 credits each.
• Refresh market costs 3 credits.
• Saving seed keywords is free.
• When you write a page: an outline is 3 credits, a standard draft is 15, a long-form pillar is 25, and new title angles are 1.

You do not need to rebuild often. Once a month is plenty for most sites, and the map stays on screen for free in between.

See it in action

Which plan includes it

The Topical Map is a Pro feature. Pro builds the whole map from your Search Console data and your existing content, plans the internal links, and writes your drafts, outlines and pillars on demand.

Growth adds the deeper layer on top: the Full market section (the whole niche, including topics you rank nowhere for), the Design my territory planner, and Refresh market. Growth also covers up to five sites and includes 1,500 credits a month.

The free version of AEO God Mode is on the WordPress plugin directory, and you can get Pro and Growth at aeogodmode.io. The market data uses our own keyword data, so you never need to add any API keys of your own.