How to Map Your SEO Tree from Scratch

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Create the missing definitive article – a step-by-step guide to building an SEO Tree for a new or existing website, extending the /seo-tree concept hub with the from-scratch how-to (Medium-priority gap).

Category: Gaps & Tasks to Create

Use this when clients and agents understand the SEO Tree concept (/seo-tree) but have no documented how-to for building one on a fresh or messy site – this skill creates that article. Priority: Medium.

Inputs

  • At least one real from-scratch mapping engagement to document, with the finished tree diagram
  • The /seo-tree definitive article – the parent concept hub this how-to must extend, not compete with (no content vandalism against your own hub)
  • The seo-content-architecture sibling skills, whose steps this article narrates for outsiders
  • WordPress access (Gutenberg), /blog-posting-guidelines, and the Nine Requirements checklist

Steps

  1. Identify the concept precisely: this article owns "building the tree from scratch" as a how-to; /seo-tree keeps owning the model itself. Gather every existing page touching tree-mapping.
  2. Write the definition (first two paragraphs): what mapping an SEO Tree from scratch means, what it is not (a redesign or a content purge), and who it is for.
  3. Document the complete process: inventory every URL; define the root (homepage as entity hub), trunk (brand layer), branches (one definitive article per core concept), leaves (case studies and meta-articles); assign every page a single place; flag orphans, duplicates, and thin pages with dispositions; set WordPress categories to match branches; draw the clickable tree diagram; wire upward links (leaves → branches → trunk → root).
  4. Link every real example of a mapped tree, each with a 1-2 sentence relevance note.
  5. Cross-link related definitive articles: /seo-tree (upward, as the parent concept) and /internal-linking (the 6-step process that wires the tree).
  6. Add the course/service CTA near the bottom.
  7. Set a short, memorable URL redirecting to the hub – never to the homepage or a case study.
  8. Add an above-the-fold clickable diagram: the tree itself – root, trunk, branches, leaves – each node linking to its section.
  9. Add E-E-A-T: real client trees with before/after outcomes, practitioner testimonials – highest authority first.
  10. Publish as a Post in the Definitive Articles category (Gutenberg), then run the Meta-Article Prompt (/meta-article-prompt-template) for the companion meta-article.
  11. Flip the dashboard status from Gap (Red) and update this skill's definitive_article field to the live short URL.

Definition of done (QA checklist)

  • Article meets all Nine Requirements, with the tree diagram above the fold
  • Extends /seo-tree without competing with it – definition links up, no duplicated hub content
  • Published as a Post in the Definitive Articles category via the standard block editor
  • Complies with Blog Posting Guidelines (title <60 chars, meta <160, keyword in first paragraph, no stock images, no AI-fluff)
  • Companion meta-article published and linking up to the new hub
  • This skill.md updated from GAP to the live short URL; linked back to /seo-tree and /internal-linking

Example(s)

  • Example needed – run the Meta-Article Prompt after first publish; /meta-article-prompt-template (29 linked examples) is the model.
  • map-content-hierarchically-root-trunk-branches-leaves (seo-content-architecture) is the agent-facing SOP this article humanizes.

File in the zip: skills/gaps-to-create/how-to-map-your-seo-tree-from-scratch.md. Download the Task Library zip.

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