Topical Map Generator for Local SEO — SoloCMO
SEO 02 · plan

Plan the whole site. See what's missing.

An interactive map of every page a client's site should have — services, silos, locations and supporting articles across five levels — seeded from their live sitemap, with everything that doesn't exist yet flagged in the same view.

Not a keyword list. The site plan itself, and the gap between it and reality.

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Screenshot The topical map — full site plan, all levels 16:9 · export 2400 × 1350 (@2x)

Capture a fully populated map, zoomed to fit. This is the most striking screen in the product.

The problem

Most topical maps end their lives as a spreadsheet.

The exercise is genuinely valuable — map the topic space, group it into silos, decide what supports what. Then it gets exported to a sheet, and the sheet has no idea which of those pages already exist, no idea what got built last quarter, and no way to become work.

Six months later nobody opens it, the site has drifted from the plan, and the only honest answer to "where are we against the roadmap" is a manual audit nobody has time to run.

The difference

The map knows what's actually on the site.

Every node is checked against the live site. Planned pages that exist look one way; planned pages that don't exist look another, and get counted. The gap between the site you designed and the site that's really there stops being an audit and becomes a number in the header.

Re-check the site whenever you want and the count updates as pages ship.

Pages190 Services34 Silos25 Articles72 Geo44 Unpushed8 Missing from site184

A real map header. The last two numbers are the ones that change how a Monday goes.

Every module is on every plan. Plans differ only in how many clients you run.

Structure

Five levels, so a map with hundreds of nodes stays readable.

Every node sits at a level, and every level means something specific in a local service site. Filter to one and the rest fade — look at just the service layer, or just the geo branch, or just the articles that support a single pillar.

L1Navigation — the root and top-level structure
L2GBP / Location — profile and city pages
L3Service / Community — the money pages
L4Pillar / Landmark — the anchor content per silo
L5Article — the supporting posts underneath
GeoGeo branch — the service-area tree
Level filterL1 – L5
Screenshot Map filtered to a single level 16:10 · export 1600 × 1000 (@2x)
Getting started

On an existing site, you don't start from nothing.

The blank canvas is why most architecture work never happens. Point the planner at the client's page and post sitemaps and the map builds itself from what's already there — then you enrich it rather than invent it.

Option A

Pull the existing site structure

Pages import with their label, URL and hierarchy intact. Blog posts get grouped into topical silos automatically, so an established site arrives already organized into the clusters it accidentally built.

Option B

Start from a root

A single L1 node and an empty canvas, for a new client or a rebuild. Generate fills it out, and Clean Up tidies the layout when it gets dense.

Opinionated on purpose

It knows what shape a local service site should be.

The planner reads the business type and states the layout that actually works for it, rather than leaving you to arrange nodes by instinct. A generic mind-mapping tool will happily let you build a structure that no local business has ever ranked with.

  • Root to service pages to subservice pages to location pages — the core silo
  • A full location branch for multi-location businesses, with labels aligned to the official Google Business Profile categories
  • A supporting blog silo wrapped around every service: cost, comparison, topical authority and pillar support
  • A separate industries branch when a client sells to both residential and commercial buyers
  • Flat or tiered URL structure, chosen once and applied across the map
Optimal layoutBusiness type
Screenshot Layout guidance for the client's business type 16:10 · export 1600 × 1000 (@2x)
Plan to production

Then the plan becomes work.

A map that can't become a queue is a diagram. Push a node and it moves into the content pipeline as a page to build, with its level, its silo and its place in the structure already decided — so the brief doesn't have to be written from scratch.

Push

Planned pages become queued work

Selected nodes move into production with their structural context attached. The unpushed count tells you what's planned but not yet moving.

Re-check

The map stays honest

Re-crawl the live site and the missing count updates. The plan and the reality never drift for long, because checking is one click rather than an audit.

Per client

One map each, kept

Every client has their own saved map with its own structure and counts. Switching clients switches the whole plan.

Shared context

What feeds it, and what it feeds.

Questions

Topical Authority Planner, answered straight.

Do I have to build the map from nothing?
No. Point it at the client's page and post sitemaps and it seeds the map from what already exists — pages import with their label, URL and hierarchy, and blog posts get grouped into topical silos automatically. On an established site you start from reality rather than a blank canvas.
What does "missing from site" mean?
A node that exists in the plan but has no matching page on the live site. It's the gap between the site you designed and the site that's actually there, counted and colored so you can see the whole build at a glance rather than discovering it page by page.
What are the five levels?
Navigation at L1, Google Business Profile and location pages at L2, service and community pages at L3, pillar and landmark content at L4, and supporting articles at L5. Filtering by level is how a map with hundreds of nodes stays readable.
Does it know what structure my client should have?
It reads the business type and states the layout that fits it — the core service silo, a location branch aligned to the official Google Business Profile categories, a supporting blog silo wrapped around each service, and an industries branch when a business sells to both residential and commercial buyers.
What happens after the map is planned?
You push it. Planned pages move into the content queue as work, and the map keeps a count of anything planned but not yet pushed. Re-checking the site refreshes what's live, so the map stays honest as pages ship.
Get started

Every plan includes every module.

There are no feature gates. Plans differ only in how many clients you run and how much you generate for them.