--- title: "Semantic SEO Services and Topical Authority, Mapped First." description: "Semantic SEO services: a topical map of your subject, entity pages linked in order, and topical authority built page by page. 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Semantic SEO services here start with a topical map: the concepts, questions, and entities that make up your subject, and the order to publish them. The map organizes coverage of the subject page by page, with pages that link to each other by name. Covering the map does not guarantee topical authority or rankings, so I track search visibility over time. One consultant builds the map, audits what the engines currently say your business is, and reviews every page against the map; AI agents I run pull the questions, draft the nodes, and run the entity checks. One-time map or monthly build. The price follows the size of the subject, named below. [Send your brief](/work#send-your-brief) ## The problem first: the site has articles, and the engines do not know what it is about. Forty posts on forty topics make a site about nothing. Some AI search features split a question into related searches across a topic. I map the questions your site can answer and test which sources show up for them. Coverage does not guarantee selection. The fix is not more posts. It is a map of the subject, one page per concept, no two pages on one concept, the hub and its spokes linked in both directions, and the entity facts stated in text where every engine can read them. ## What the semantic audit covers here. What Google and ChatGPT currently say your business is, does, and serves, and where that is wrong or missing. Which concepts in your subject the site covers, which it half-covers in several places, and which it does not. The questions the engines generate around your subject, including the grounding queries Bing Webmaster Tools now shows. Which off-site places say the same thing about you and which do not. Where a competitor is the current answer for your own category. ## The topical map, as the deliverable. The topical map is a file: every concept in the subject, the question each page will own, the entities each page must name, the links between them, and the publish order. It marks merges before it marks new pages. It marks the entity pages (who, what, where, since when) and the hub pages (the subject and its parts). It is the scope for the writing, and it is yours whether or not the writing happens here. The article on [what topical authority is](/articles/what-is-topical-authority) explains the idea; this page is the service. ## Entity pages and schema that name the same things. Each entity page states the facts in text: the name, what it is, where it operates, since when, what it is not. The schema on the page names the same entities with the same spelling. Where your business qualifies for a public structured reference under its rules, the stable identity facts go there too, so an answer drawn from memory and an answer drawn from a live search agree. ## What you get. The entity audit. The topical map. The merge list. The entity pages and hub pages in scope, written to the map, or the map handed to your writers with the standard. The schema per page. The off-site consensus list: the profiles, directories, and channels that should say the same thing, with which ones do. A re-run of the entity audit after publication, with the diff. ## What you keep. The map, the audit, the diff, and every page as a readable file. The map is the thing a new writer or a new consultant opens first. It does not expire when the engagement ends. ## How it is checked. Every node on the map has one URL or a dated plan. No two nodes share a primary question. Hub-to-spoke links exist in both directions. The sources an LLM quotes for the hub's question are recorded, including runs where it does not quote the hub. The entity audit is re-run after publishing and the diff is in the report. Pages that cover one concept in several places are merged, with redirects, before new pages go live. ## Who this is for, and who it is not for. For a business with one subject it wants to be the source for: a specialty, a service category, a region. For a site with a library that never ranked and no map of why. For a content team that wants the map and the standard and will do the writing. Not for a business that wants to rank for everything adjacent to its subject. Not for a site whose pages cannot be crawled or whose facts are wrong; those are [technical SEO](/seo/technical-seo) and [on-page and content SEO](/seo/on-page-and-content-seo) first. Not for a one-week timeline: a map is built in weeks and covered over months. ## What sets the price of semantic SEO services. - The size of the subject: how many concepts and entities the map holds. - How much of the map the existing site already covers, and how many pages merge. - Whether the writing happens here or with your team against the map. - How many regions or locales the map covers. - Whether the off-site consensus work is in scope. - One-time map or monthly build, and for monthly, how many nodes a month. The scope states the number after the brief and the entity audit. ## One-time map or monthly build. One-time: the entity audit, the topical map, the merge list, the nodes agreed in the scope, the checks, the handoff. Monthly: the next nodes on the map, the entity re-check, the off-site list worked, the fan-out gap check, and the change log. Monthly is scoped per situation on a call after the brief. All four solutions are bought the same way; the [hub](/seo) says how. ## Why a map and not a keyword list. A keyword list ranks words by volume and sends you to write the top ten. A map ranks concepts by what the subject needs to be complete and sends you to cover it in order. The engines retrieve by meaning now, not by string. A list of words cannot tell you that two of your posts are the same page or that the one page your subject depends on does not exist. ## Read more. - [Topical authority content strategy](/articles/topical-authority-content-strategy) - [Entity SEO and the knowledge graph](/articles/entity-seo-knowledge-graph) - [Semantic SEO and NLP](/articles/#cluster-seo-by-role) - [Schema markup types](/articles/schema-markup-types-guide) - [AI Overviews SEO strategy](/articles/ai-overviews-seo-strategy) ## Send your brief. 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