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Say goodbye to SEO as you know it, say hello to LSI
Written By seopher on Jan. 14, 2008.
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In an unprecidented turn of events I'm actually writing a note relevent to my site...
Latent semantic indexing is going to change how your content is written. It's going to pull you in the opposite direction to the conventional theory of keyword density. That is unless LSI is already upon us.
It's basically the opposite to keyword density (where you rank higher for certain phrases by having them appear more times on a page); LSI rewards you for having a more keyword rich page. Google already knows the synonyms for your search terms so it's only a matter of time.
What do you guys think?
seopher
Written Jan. 14, 2008 / Report /
Also don't you wish search engines offered a little more clarity over what they're doing?
Vidar
Written Jan. 14, 2008 / Report /
the more things change, the more they stay the same
NelsonDesigns
Written Jan. 15, 2008 / Report /
This is great, because this is how I build and sell web sites to all my clients. Of course you always try to use as many keywords as possible but I have always been a firm believer and supporter of building pages to be semantic in their design as far as tagging and structure are concerned but then making sure content is written to be keyword laiden but not over saturated, I feel that over saturating keywords makes your site come off as hacky and unprofessional...
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Lasha
Written Jan. 31, 2008 / Report /
Why do I feel that this is something that should already be a part of what "SEO" is already, today? This is nothing so extraordinary to make it deserve the title of being a whole new way of optimization. People who follow the current SEO rules and have properly set up websites shouldn't worry about it, unless the writing on the blog/etc. is terrible and worded too much for keyword density. Let's see how this new "LSI" thing is integrated in the time to come.
Plus, if we were to say "goodbye" to our current trends of SEO, imagine the fury and retaliation of web against the big guys like Google and Yahoo! Search engines would just have to adapt seamlessly, and so would we.
inadvertentgardener
Written Jan. 31, 2008 / Report /
Yeah -- it seems like this should already be part of the way content is being written -- I thought the days of repeating things a bunch of times on the page were long gone?
seopher
Written Jan. 31, 2008 / Report /
In my opinion good content should be written using a suitable width of language, using synonyms and whatnot. So LSI seems like the best way to naturally assign relevance.
Unfortunately it seems that keyword density is still a massive factor.
shadowsun7
Written Jan. 31, 2008 / Report /
I believe content should be written in the clearest possible way to get a message across to a human being. But that's just me, and I'm a writing geek.
Sigh keyword density sigh.
Ozone42
Written Jan. 31, 2008 / Report /
I actually wish the search engines were less clear. That would really deter all the pay for post, link baiting, indexing sites, etc.
If you're writing is catered to a machine or a program, you are not doing it for the right reason. Writing is to convey ideas to other humans.
ivanpw
Written Mar. 17, 2008 / Report /
Hi all,
LSI will only brings better (and fairer) content on the Net - I'm tired to read those 'weird' articles with 'weird' word structures - keyword rich, but poor reading articles. Contents are for real people, not robot!
However, like Seopher mentioned before, keyword still rules.
Ivanpw
noobpreneur.com