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What is cornerstone content?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Cornerstone content, also called pillar content<\/a> or flagship content, refers to the most important overarching pages on a website. Cornerstone content generally covers a broad topic and goes into great detail. Although commonly used to refer to blog posts or webpages, cornerstone content can also be in video or audio form. This form of content generally covers either a company\u2019s products and services (on a page), a broader topic (in a blog post) or an overview of resources (on a page or blog post).\n<\/p>\n

Cornerstone content is often used to link to content on more specific topics mentioned within it, which in turn often link back to the cornerstone piece. This forms topic clusters, which are groups of pages on specific parts of the same broad topic.\n<\/p>\n

Why is cornerstone content used?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Figure:<\/b> Cornerstone Content – Author: Seobility – License: CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Cornerstone content is almost always the most important content on a website. By creating topic clusters around cornerstone content, webmasters show both users and search engines<\/a> that the content is important, resulting in more visibility and traffic to it.\n<\/p>\n

Cornerstone content helps to create an effective website architecture by structuring a website into separate topics. This helps people navigate from one page to another and makes it easier for them to find the information they\u2019re looking for. Since search engines crawl<\/a> websites by clicking on links and many search engines have started leveraging artificial intelligence to help them understand what the content on pages means, many SEOs believe that structuring your website using topic clusters can help search engines better understand what pages are about.\n<\/p>\n

Important aspects of cornerstone content<\/span><\/h2>\n

Although cornerstone content is broadly defined as all content that plays an important role on your site, there are a few things you\u2019ll find in most cornerstone content pieces.\n<\/p>\n

Broad long-form content<\/span><\/h3>\n

Most cornerstone content is long-form and contains a lot of information on a broader topic.\n<\/p>\n

Links to other pieces of content<\/span><\/h3>\n

Cornerstone content will often link to other pages on a site, including other blog posts, service\/product pages, or other important pages.\n<\/p>\n

A prominent place on the site<\/span><\/h3>\n

Cornerstone content always gets a prominent place on a site, whether that\u2019s on the homepage of the entire site, the homepage of the blog, in the main menu of a site, or another prominent position.\n<\/p>\n

Many inbound internal links<\/span><\/h3>\n

Since cornerstone content is important, it\u2019s often internally linked<\/a> to from many other pages on the site.\n<\/p>\n

Examples of cornerstone content<\/span><\/h2>\n