Elias Vormann

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L07

Build authority around narrow industrial categories

Sources Query: “topical authority GEO”

Students can distinguish real topical authority from broad promotional coverage and connect authority to retrievable evidence.

What this lecture covers

The lecture explains why a narrow specialist can be outranked in AI answers by a broader site with clearer supporting material. A recurrent pattern shows a nearby distributor or trade portal carrying the category better than the manufacturer’s own pages.