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How to design a content hub that earns topical authority. Pillar topic selection, cluster planning, internal linking architecture, URL structure, pillar and cluster page anatomy, topical authority signals for SEO and AEO/GEO, and the maintenance discipline that distinguishes intentional hubs from accidental orphans. Triggers on pillar content, content hub, topic cluster, topical authority, content architecture, hub and spoke, pillar page, cluster page, content silo, internal linking strategy. Also triggers when a content set is not ranking despite individual piece quality, when a pillar was launched without a cluster, or when content has accumulated without an architecture.

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# Pillar Content Architecture

A senior content architect's playbook for designing content hubs that earn topical authority.

Most content programs accumulate accidentally. Pieces ship one at a time, internal linking happens (or does not) in editing, similar topics get covered by multiple pieces with no coordination, and six months later the team has a content set that looks like a sitemap but feels like a yard sale. Search engines see disconnected pages; AI engines see scattered citations; readers cannot tell which piece is the entry point and which is the reference.

This skill is the discipline of intentional hub architecture. It assumes you have decided which topic areas to invest in (see `content-strategy`) and have keyword data (see `seo-keyword`). It does not write any individual piece (see `content-brief-authoring` for per-piece work and `content-and-copy` for execution). What it does is design the structure: which topic gets a pillar, which subtopics get cluster pieces, how the pieces link to each other, where they live in the URL hierarchy, and what topical authority signals the architecture is engineered to produce.

When to use this skill: launching a new content hub, restructuring an existing content set into a hub, deciding whether a piece should be a pillar or a cluster, or auditing why a content area is not ranking despite individual piece quality.

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