Topical Authority Gap Mapper
Map your content coverage against an industry topic cluster and see what to write next. Pick your industry, mark what you already cover and the gaps rank themselves.
Select your industry
Pick the industry closest to your business to see its topic cluster map.
Results stay on your device. Copy, download or print includes your inputs and the stated assumptions. Enquiries do not automatically attach your inputs.
Example, assumptions and model details
If every topic is Partial, weighted coverage is 50% and every topic still belongs in the improvement backlog.
Coverage is calculated against an editorial inventory. It is not a search-engine authority metric, keyword-volume study or ranking forecast.
- Evidence basis
- Elev8d's planning assumptions, or the numbers you enter. Not an independent benchmark.
- Population and market
- Built for Australian businesses. Not based on a survey of the market.
- Review owner
- Elev8d
- Model version
- 2026-09-20
How to use this tool
Choose the audience template closest to your customers. Record your business and service context, and treat the suggested topics as examples.
Mark a topic Covered only when a useful page meets that intent. Use Partial for thin or incomplete coverage.
Use Needs work in either map or list view to review gaps and improvements. Record the page and evidence before planning new work.
How the mapping works
Each editable industry template is an editorial inventory, not a complete or validated map of customer demand. Check topic relevance and search intent against your actual audience before adopting it.
Coverage uses weights of three, two and one for high, medium and low priority, with Partial earning half credit. It measures your reported coverage of this template, not authority or Google trust. Missing and partial topics stay in the work list, ordered by priority with pillars first; where priorities are equal, the weakest cluster comes first. Overall coverage includes topics hidden by filters.
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers about what this tool measures, the assumptions behind it, and what to do with the result.
This planner checks coverage against an editable topic inventory. Comprehensive, useful content can help customers, but this score is not a search-engine authority measurement or a ranking guarantee.
Each topic is weighted by priority: high counts three points, medium two, low one. Covered topics earn full weight, partial topics earn half. The score is your earned weight as a percentage of the total, so covering the high priority pillars moves it fastest.
Covered means a genuine, dedicated page or article that answers the topic properly. Partial means you mention it somewhere, a paragraph on another page or a thin post, but it could not stand alone as the resource. Be honest; the gap list is only useful if the inputs are.
Pillars are the cornerstone pages a cluster is built around. Guides are substantial how-to or explainer content. Support topics are shorter pieces that round out the cluster and link back to the pillars.
No. Aim to fully cover the high priority topics and pillars first, then fill medium priority gaps. Low priority support topics add depth over time. A focused, well covered cluster beats thin coverage of everything.
No. This tool is a planning guide. Topical authority also depends on content quality, internal linking, technical SEO, backlinks, search intent and competition. It tells you what to write, not how well it will rank.
Pick the closest match and treat the clusters as a template: the pattern of local visibility, pricing, trust, service depth and social proof applies to most service businesses. Or talk to us and we will map your niche properly.
Yes, in this browser. Coverage marks, page URLs and notes save automatically to the current project on this device, and you can keep several named projects. Nothing is uploaded and there is no sign-up. When a template gains topics, your marks carry over and the new topics start as gaps. Browser storage is not a backup, so download the result or copy your write-next list into your content calendar.
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