Plan, build, link, launch & measure an AI-citation-optimized blog hub
Build a hub that earns AI citations.
This dashboard turns the entire Blog Hub Builder workbook into one interactive tool. Validate your topic, plan clusters, score pages, wire your internal linking, track citations, and use 26 token-fillable prompts to do the heavy lifting. Your data is auto-saved in your browser — close the tab and come back later, it’s all here.
Key benchmarks (use these as your targets)
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Why it matters
Workflow & tab map
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How to use this dashboard
Validate your candidate topic in Topic Validator. If it scores below 60, pick a different topic.
Brainstorm 25–30 buyer questions in Buyer Questions using prompts #2–#4 in the Prompts Library.
Build your Cluster Map — 1 pillar + 8–15 clusters. Use prompt #6.
Wire internal linking in Linking Matrix. Every cluster → pillar; pillar → every cluster.
Generate a brief per page in Content Briefs with prompt #7. Write with prompts #8–#12.
Score every page in AEO Scorecard. Anything under 75 needs fixes before publish.
Follow the 90-Day Plan. Don’t start a second hub until the first is working.
After launch, run the monthly audit cycle (Citation, Audit Log, Off-Site, Competitor) and check the Health Dashboard.
Topic Validator
Score a candidate hub topic against the 3-intersection test (Chapter 4 & 10). Anything below 60 — pick a different topic.
Test 1 — Three-intersection test
Score each 1–10. Out of 30.
Test 1 subtotal: 0 / 30
Test 2 — The 8-question gate
Mark how many of your 8 candidate questions could each get a 1,200+ word answer.
Test 2 score: 0 / 10
Test 3 — Disqualifiers (any Yes = hard stop)
Disqualifier check: PASS
Overall viability
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of 100
Verdict
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Fill in the tests above.
Disqualifier: PASS
Buyer Questions Bank
Capture every question your buyers ask about your hub topic. Use prompts #2–#4 to brainstorm. Then promote the strongest 8–15 to your Cluster Map.
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Intent
Volume
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Cluster Map — Master Plan
One row per hub page. Build the entire map before writing. 1 pillar + 8–15 clusters. Use prompt #6 to draft it.
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Type
Working title
Target question
Primary keyword
Intent
Target words
Status
Author
Publish date
Internal Linking Matrix
Rows = the page doing the linking. Columns = the destination. Check the box where a body-text link exists.
Goal: every cluster → pillar (within first 200–300 words), pillar → every cluster, plus 2–3 cross-cluster links per page. Bidirectional linking lifts citation 2.7x (Yext 2025).
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Pillar inbound (target = clusters)
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Pillar outbound (target = clusters)
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Page AEO Scorecard
15-point checklist scored per page (0–100). Anything under 75 needs fixes before publish or relaunch.
Entity Density Calculator
Cited passages have ~20% proper-noun density vs 5–8% baseline. Paste a section, count proper nouns, and see the verdict instantly.
Proper nouns include people, companies, products, places, dates, organizations, standards, and named entities like “GPT-5”.
Content Briefs
Fill one of these per page before writing. Generate the first draft with prompt #7, then refine here.
90-Day Build Plan
Week-by-week timeline to ship hub v1. Check tasks off as you go.
Overall progress
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Platform Setup Checklist
Filter by your platform; some tasks apply to every CMS. Track required and optional setup tasks.
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Citation Tracker
Monthly per-page tracking. Mark Yes if cited in that engine for at least one of your hub questions. Use prompt #24 to standardize your audit.
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Page
Organic clicks
Avg. position
ChatGPT
Perplexity
Google AIO
AI sessions
AI conversions
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Audit-Optimize-Measure Log
Run this loop monthly for the first 6 months, then quarterly. Use prompt #24 (audit) and prompt #26 (diagnostic).
Date
Prompts tested
Pages cited (yours/competitors)
Gaps identified
Optimizations made
Re-measure date
Outcome
Off-Site Hub Extension
Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, podcasts, and guest posts that mirror your hub topics and point links to specific cluster pages — not your homepage.
Platform
Content type
Topic / title
Link target
Publish date
Status
Citations
Notes
Competitor Citation Tracker
Run a key buyer prompt in each engine, log which competitor brands and pages get cited, and identify gaps you can exploit. Use prompt #25.
Buyer prompt
Engine
Competitor brands cited
Cited URLs
You cited?
Gap to exploit
Hub Health Dashboard
Auto-rolled up from every other tab. Refresh updates as you fill the rest of the dashboard.
Build progress
Pillar pages planned
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Target: 1
Cluster pages planned
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Target: 8 – 15
Total words planned
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Across all hub pages
Pages published
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From Cluster Map
Quality & linking
Average AEO score
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< 75 = needs work
Pages scoring 75+
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Citation-ready
Internal links logged
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From Linking Matrix
Density sections OK
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≥ 20% proper nouns
Plan & setup
90-Day tasks done
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0% complete
Platform tasks done
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Topic Validator
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Run the test
Buyer Questions
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Target: 25 – 30
Citation snapshot
Citation rows logged
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ChatGPT citations
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Perplexity citations
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Google AIO citations
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Total AI sessions
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Total AI conversions
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Off-site pieces published
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Audit cycles run
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Don’t start a second hub until at least half your cluster pages are getting some combination of organic traffic and AI citations, and you’ve completed two audit-optimize-measure cycles.
AI Prompts Library
26 copy-paste prompts that do the heavy lifting. Fill in the labeled fields, see the prompt update live, then click Copy Prompt to paste into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity — anywhere.
How it works: Each prompt has token fields below it. Type your values in the fields and the prompt preview fills in automatically. Some tokens (like Hub Topic and Target Buyer) are SHARED — fill them once and they apply across all 26 prompts.
Global shared tokens
These values apply to every prompt that uses them. Fill them once.