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June 1, 2026

# What Is Topical Coverage Calculator? A Practical Guide to Topical Authority

Search engines increasingly evaluate sites at the topic level, not just the page level — a site with 40 shallow posts covering a subject often loses to a site with 15 posts that comprehensively covers every angle of the same topic.

Topical Coverage Calculator exists to solve one specific, recurring problem: topical authority is easy to get wrong by hand, tedious to check manually across a whole site, and quick to fix once you can actually see it clearly. That's the gap Topical Coverage Calculator fills.

In practice, this usually comes up in one of two situations — you're setting things up correctly from the start on a new page or site, or you're auditing something that already exists and trying to find what's silently broken. Both are worth doing regularly, not just once.

A few things worth keeping in mind:
- Map out subtopics and related questions for your core topic before writing, then check which ones your existing content actually covers versus assumes.
- Prioritize filling genuine coverage gaps over adding a fourth article on an angle you've already covered three times.
- Interlink content within a topic cluster heavily — topical authority is partly a function of how clearly your own site's structure demonstrates depth on a subject.

It's also worth knowing what commonly goes wrong here. Publishing broadly across many unrelated topics instead of building depth in a smaller number where genuine expertise and authority can accumulate. And avoiding these is usually less about effort and more about knowing to check in the first place.

This connects to a few other things worth getting right at the same time — see Content / Blog Topic Generator and AI Search / GEO Checker for the related pieces of the same technical foundation.

If you want to check this on your own site right now, Topical Coverage Calculator runs directly in your browser, free, with no account required.

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