This video documents how AuteurGraph went from 0 to 433,000 pages discovered in Google Search Console — without a backlink campaign, paid traffic, or even much promotion.
I share this not as a brag, but as a case study in how structure-first SEO can outperform even high-budget content strategies when done right.
Start with the data model
AuteurGraph isn’t just a blog — it’s a network of content:
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Directors link to films
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Films link to genres and movements
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Each node becomes a page, each relationship a discovery path
This web of content lets search engines crawl and connect naturally, which is why indexation exploded once the initial sitemaps went live.
Sitemaps, internal links, and crawl paths
I broke the site into:
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/director/
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/film/
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/movement/
,/genre/
,/decade/
Each has its own sitemap and canonical structure. The site’s internal linking ensures that no page is ever more than 3 clicks deep, and almost every page has 10+ inbound links from relevant content.
In the video, I show the crawl reports and how I trimmed bloat while expanding meaningful content.
Scale without duplicate content
Using TMDb data might seem like a shortcut, but I wrap every page in:
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Original intro paragraphs
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Curated lists (e.g. “Best Ozu Films”)
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Embedded visuals
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API metadata for structure
It’s what turns a technical database into an actual destination.
What’s your approach to SEO: scaling fast, writing slowly — or combining both?