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Topic

Score8.1 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Topic?

Topic, from Topic or Chia Labs, Inc, aims to make it easier for writers to create comprehensive content. Its AI analyzes the top results in Google, extracts key topics to cover, and provides an interactive editor to allow writers to grade their work. The system gives actionable suggestions to enable writers to create content in order to drive results.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Outline Builder
Writing Grading

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Top Performing Features

  • Keyword analysis

    The tool analyzes the content of your site to help discover the right keywords.

    Category average: 8.8

  • Local SEO

    The tool helps optimize your website for local searches.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Mobile SEO

    The tool helps optimize your website for searches done on mobile devices.

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Competitive analysis

    The tool analyzes your website’s position in comparison to competitive websites in areas such as backlinks, SERP position, etc.

    Category average: 8.2

  • SERP ranking tracking

    The tool tracks your website’s position in search engine results pages (SERPs) for keywords, over time.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Page grader

    The tool scores each page of your website for SEO.

    Category average: 7.8

SEO Content Optimization and Brief Tool That is Leading the Industry

Pros

  • Content Brief
  • Competitive SERP ranking analysis
  • Grouping content topics together to see related keywords/ content clusters easily
  • Analyzing Google Search Console data for content refresh opportunities

Cons

  • Using the GSC data to find new, adjacent content opportunities.
  • They are using GPT-3 for title generation and would love to see it used to provide more content suggestions beyond the titles/descriptions
  • Sometimes it doesn't surface 'questions' that people are asking related to lower volume terms but not sure of a way to solve that

Return on Investment

  • It has greatly reduced the number of hours our SEO team has to review content
  • Has sped up our content briefs by hours per brief
  • Great for helping us to see what content is performing well / needs help via the Google Search Console integration

Alternatives Considered

MarketMuse, SurferSEO, Semrush, Clearscope, Frase, CognitiveSEO and WordLift

Other Software Used

Semrush, Ahrefs, Supermetrics