Canonical method. The topic wheel is what you talk about. The money tree is which URLs collect that talk into money. Greatest hits are the three on each map you actually amplify. The 90/10 split lives in the Nine Triangles. This page is how you name the three.
What a greatest hit is
A greatest hit is a URL that already did the job. Not the newest post. Not the longest post. Not the one the founder is bored of. If a stranger already found it, watched it, booked from it, or paid because of it, it is a hit until something beats it on the same scoreboard.
Two lists, never one mush:
| On this page | You highlight | The job |
|---|---|---|
| Topic wheel | Top 3 topics or articles | Attention — the stories people already remember you for |
| Money tree | Top 3 money pages | Conversion — quote, book, coaching, product, audit |
The rest of the wheel and the tree stay visible. Hits are the gold chips, not a deletion of the library. Dollar a Day then spends ~90% behind those URLs and ~10% on new experiments from the wheel.
How we identify them (in this order)
- Conversion. Form fills, booked calls, invoices, or package sales attributed to a URL. A money-tree hit without a conversion path is a pretty branch.
- Paid amplification. Dollar-a-Day comments, CTR, and cost per result. Kill the losers; the survivors are hits.
- Organic search. Search Console clicks and GA4 engaged sessions on a stable URL — not a homepage session dump.
- Inbound. Email or DMs that name the piece: “I saw your 600-call test.” That sentence is evidence.
- Age + uniqueness, only if 1–4 are missing. The article that existed before this week’s factory run. A chip published the same morning as the wheel is an experiment, not a hit.
Do not rank by recency, word count, or how proud you are of the draft. Do not invent a revenue number to justify the list. Write one sentence of evidence under each card. If you cannot write the sentence, it is not a hit yet.
Worked examples (18 August 2026)
Each row is a live URL. The “why” is the evidence we used, not a slogan.
George Paladichuk — topic wheel · money tree
| Hit | Why it counted | |
|---|---|---|
| Money 1 | NaiL A.I. | The product. Center of his wheel. Every other page should send a franchisor here. |
| Money 2 | Missed-call leak | The buying argument, not a blog index. |
| Money 3 | About | Who they are buying from. |
| Topic 1 | AI hang-ups 4x’d | Lived before the 18 Aug chip batch. Original 600-call test. |
| Topic 2 | Conference floor footage | The other pre-existing article. Proof he is in the rooms. |
| Topic 3 | Missed-call leak | The HOW spoke the 22 video ideas hang on. New chips are experiments. |
We did not crown “1,000 missed calls a day” a hit. That page was created the same morning as the other factory stubs. Same-day inventory is feedstock, not a greatest-hits album.
Dennis Yu — topic wheel · money tree
| Hit | Why it counted | |
|---|---|---|
| Money 1 | Speaking | The fee page (US $5,000 / international $7,500 + travel). |
| Money 2 | Knowledge Panel package | The $7,500 install. Articles feed this URL. |
| Money 3 | Get my audit | Quick Audit close. BM /quick-audit/ already points here. |
| Topic 1 | Dollar a Day | The method inbound still names. |
| Topic 2 | Best in the world at Facebook ads | Positioning article that still gets cited. A hit may be old. |
| Topic 3 | 159 personal brand sites | Content Factory proof on his own domain. |
Cam Hazzard — topic wheel · money tree
| Hit | Why it counted | |
|---|---|---|
| Money 1 | Work with Cam | Fleet probe already names this as the primary coaching close. |
| Money 2 | Speaking | Stage close. Align + DunkMan are the proof. |
| Money 3 | Personal brand manager | Productized offer for athletes. |
| Topic 1 | World record at Dunkademics | Dated athletic proof (10 ft 5.5 in). |
| Topic 2 | I won Group A | First dunk contest, won Group A. Scoreboard, not a tip list. |
| Topic 3 | Magic Berry Challenge | The marketing method he teaches. |
Marko Sipila — topic wheel · money tree
| Hit | Why it counted | |
|---|---|---|
| Money 1 | HVAC Quote | The software close, linked from his personal site. |
| Money 2 | Coatings Launch | Second company. Do not collapse two products into one chip. |
| Money 3 | About Marko | Who they are hiring. |
| Topic 1 | Who is Marko Sipila? | Identity article for name search. |
| Topic 2 | Lance Bachmann endorsement | Named third-party proof. |
| Topic 3 | Client $600K to $2M | Named operator result. Case study beats a playbook roundup. |
Company sites
BlitzMetrics highlights Dollar a Day, Content Factory, and Nine Triangles as topics; Dollar a Day, Get my audit, and the Knowledge Panel package as money. Local Service Spotlight highlights the audit, the Knowledge Panel package, and Cloud AI setup as money; topic wheel, skill packs, and the Knowledge Panel book as topics.
How it looks on the page
A gold three-card strip sits above the diagram. Each card is an <a href> to the hit URL, numbered 1–3, with the evidence sentence underneath. On a generated topic wheel the matching chips also get a star. Marker: data-greatest-hits="topics" or data-greatest-hits="money". Specs live in Topic-Wheel/hits/{stem}.json. Re-rank when the evidence changes, not when you publish a new stub.
Do not reprint a giant “THE NAME GREATEST HITS” title on the SVG. The page H1 plus this strip is enough.
Definition of done
- Method article is this URL.
- /topic-wheel/ shows three topic hits with evidence, each HTTP 200.
- /money-tree/ shows three money hits with evidence, each HTTP 200.
- Same-day factory stubs are not in the three.
- 90% of the next boost/repurpose cycle points at these URLs.
Skill: greatest-hits-on-wheel-and-tree. Pair: topic wheel on every personal brand site. Content-strategy sibling: 90% hits / 10% new.