Research and results
What does the publishing order mean?
Pages that already exist are improved first. Then, branch by branch, the supporting outer pages go live before the core page they feed, so every planned link has a target on launch day.
Every page in the map has a number and a one-line reason. The order is a rule, not a score.
The rule
- Pages that already exist come first. They already earn the site a record for the topic; improving them is the cheapest gain.
- Then branch by branch, from the strongest core page down. Within a branch, the supporting outer pages come first, deepest first, so that when the page above them goes live its links point at pages that exist.
- The core page closes its branch. It launches with every planned link already in place.
The reason for each page's position is written next to it on the Map tab and on its page document.
How fast to publish
The map does not publish anything. When you do, stay under the human range: a few pages a day at most. For a new site a first batch of fifteen to twenty pages is plenty; a live site expands from the pages that already rank. Publishing hundreds of pages in a day reads as scaled content and can hurt.
Mark pages live
When a page goes live, mark it on its page document with the URL. Its scorecard then measures it from your Search Console connection, and the six-month refresh reminder counts from that day. Every page in the map should be revisited within six months with a real change.
Reorder if you must
The order is the default that keeps the links honest. Nothing stops you writing or publishing in another order; the batch writer takes the pages you tick, in the order shown.
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