Topical authority is Google's assessment of how comprehensively your site covers a topic. If you have 50 well-linked articles on B2B demand generation from every angle — strategy, tactics, tools, case studies — Google trusts you as an authority on that topic and ranks you more easily for related keywords. The modern SEO strategy is: pick your topic cluster, cover it comprehensively, and earn the authority that compounds.
For example, Cactus Marketing building topical authority in 'B2B demand generation for startups' means covering 100+ related keywords, internal-linking them together, and earning backlinks from industry sources — so any new demand gen content we publish ranks faster.
Building topical authority is our primary SEO strategy for clients — we map entire topic clusters before writing the first piece of content.
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SEO is the practice of improving your website's visibility in organic (unpaid) search results.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
SEM typically refers to paid search advertising — Google Ads and Bing Ads — where you bid on keywords to appear in search results immediately, without waiting for organic rankings.
Organic Traffic
Organic traffic is visitors who arrive at your site from unpaid search results, social posts, and direct/dark social channels — not from ads.
Backlink
A backlink is a link from another website to yours — one of the strongest ranking signals in Google's algorithm.
Domain Authority (DA)
Domain Authority is Moz's proprietary metric (0–100) estimating how likely your domain is to rank in search results, based primarily on the quality and quantity of backlinks.
Keyword Difficulty (KD)
Keyword difficulty is a score (0–100) estimating how hard it is to rank on the first page of Google for a given keyword, based primarily on the strength of competing pages.