Glossary · Content & Optimization
Pillar Page
A broad, comprehensive page covering a core topic at a high level, linking out to more detailed pages that each cover a specific subtopic.
Its role in a topic cluster
A pillar page acts as the hub of a topic cluster — broad enough to cover the general topic, while pointing readers and crawlers toward the more detailed pages that cover its individual subtopics.
Why it matters for broad queries
When a prompt asks a general question about a topic, a well-built pillar page is often the single best-positioned page to be cited, since it's structured to summarize the whole subject rather than one narrow slice of it.
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