SEO for Topic Cluster
Topic - Horticulture
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Main keyword is competitive, but there are keywords like ‘national horticultural mission’,
‘horticulture crops’ with good volume and no need for backlinks.
For ‘national horticultural mission’ all results are of govt websites, except this blog post https://www.indiafilings.com/learn/national-horticulture-mission/
○ These guys have Domain Authority (DA) of 67, so a good reputation website in
the eyes of Google
○ They published this post back in December, so it’s recently being ranked
○ The page gets 1000 traffic per month ranking position 7
○ The content is not great, we can easily beat them with 10x better content
Suggestion though is to build topic authority on ‘horticulture’ so Google sees us as
experts on the topic
○ We need to build a topic cluster and write multiple articles on horticulture
○ I believe we have more chance of ranking if we have a mixed strategy where we
are targeting low hanging fruits in short blog posts, then we also target the
highest volume difficult keywords to get
○ These are the keywords we can write on for this topic
■ Don’t need backlinks
● national horticulture mission
● horticulture crops
● father of horticulture (we can tell his story)
● difference between horticulture and agriculture
● scope of horticulture
● branches of horticulture
■ Need backlinks
● horticulture
■ Navigational
● Note - There are these keywords like ‘horticulture bihar’ which
SEMRush marks as navigational, and most likely the people want
to visit the horticulture department of Bihar. But I still feel we have
an opportunity to write about the horticulture in these states as an
experiment to see how it performs
● Keywords
○ horticulture bihar
○ tn horticulture
○ up horticulture
○ horticulture haryana
○ horticulture kashmir
● Idea - Instead of first writing individual blog posts for each of these
states, probably a better approach would be to write something
like ‘The State of Horticulture Across India: From Kashmir to
UP-Bihar and more’