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According to current understanding and known ranking factors, topical authority evaluates a website's content based on its depth, breadth, and expertise in covering a specific topic or knowledge domain.  \nGoogle’s Ranking Anatomy: Dissecting SEO Success Factors | 3  \nTopical Authority  \nSite-wide factors > Topical authority  \nDEFINITION  \nTopical authority is a measure of a website's perceived expertise and credibility in a specific subject area or niche. It shows how well a site covers a particular topic, providing comprehensive and valuable information to users.  \nTopical authority aims to quantify how authoritative and comprehensive a site's content is within its chosen niche or entity. It goes beyond simply counting keywords or backlinks.  \nTopical Authority ranking signals:  \n➔ Site Focus Score: Measures how much a site is focused on aspecific topic.  \n➔ Site Radius: Measures how closely individual page topics align with the overall site's topical focus. In simpler terms, Google determines a central theme for your website, then evaluateshow well each page fits that theme.  \n➔ Site Embeddings: Compressed representations of site/page content in vector space, assigning a topic to the site.  \n➔ Connectedness: Represents how much the entity is connected/related to other entities in the document. This signal influences the topicality score but is not completely aligned with it.  \nGoogle’s Ranking Anatomy: Dissecting SEO Success Factors | 4  \nTopical Authority  \nSite-wide factors > Topical authority  \nTopical Authority ranking signals (cont.):  \n➔ DocScore: Measures how well the document scores for the entity, serving as a relative ranking signal between different documents for an entity.  \n➔ Normalized Topicality: Refers to a normalized representation of the topicality score in the range [0, 1], representing the proportion of the document that talks about the entity.  \n➔ Relevance Score: Generated by a machine learning entity classifier, similar to topicality but ML-based.  \nGoogle’s Ranking Anatomy: Dissecting SEO Success Factors | 5  \nTopical Authority: The data speaks Site-wide factors > Topical authority  \nFOLLOW THE EXPERT:   \nThe data team at Surfer set out to demonstrate that websites that cover one topic comprehensively have an advantage in the search results when compared to sites that cover many topics. The underlying assumption was that even smaller websites can outrank larger sites if they focus their efforts on a single, clearly-defined topic.  \nTopical Authority  \nRemaining Keywords Avg Position  \nThe above data demonstrates a correlation between the Topical Authority Score and keyword position. This graph shows that small, medium, and large domains that cover one topic consistently have better positions and higher authority.  \nGoogle’s Ranking Anatomy: Dissecting SEO Success Factors | 6  \nTopical Authority: The data speaks Site-wide factors > Topical authority  \nHere is another look at the same data:  \nTopical Authority  \nKeywords Avg Position  \nFor example, despite Forbes' extensive content on digital nomads, data indicates that in this niche, more specialized websites with consistent content outperform Forbes ","cbCain1lO5NQSH2Y","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCain1lO5NQSH2Y","pdf",4666856,32,"English","# Chapter 1: Site-wide ranking factors\n## Topical authority\n## Topical authority ranking signals","[{\"question\":\"What does topical authority measure in Google’s context?\",\"answer\":\"Topical authority measures a website’s perceived expertise and credibility in a specific subject area. 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