Latent Semantic Indexing
Latent Semantic Indexing
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Paris France versus Paris Hilton for example. If you concentrated on promoting the keyword Paris, how would Google know to return your site for a search of Paris Hilton? You probably wouldn't be up top for that keyword term. However, taken in context with terms like Hilton which alone probably wouldn't do it lest Google thinks your looking to stay at the Hilton in Paris France , model, Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, Hollywood and so forth, Google would have a better chance of putting it together. Which means, when someone Googles "Paris Hilton" resorts and hotels for Paris France probably won't be appearing in your search results. Let's seeth what Google sayeth on the meaning of the term Paris Hilton I screwed up once a long time ago with a website. I promoted one word mainly. Back then I was #1 in results with this particular site. Oh yeah. Money was coming in, I was cashing checks in excess of $1000 per week completely passive based solely on my tremendous website abilities and naturally my ability to SEO. [Sure. Read that again. I'll wait.] But this was in 1999 and lasted probably until 2004. I began designing websites for corporate clients again because the bread and butter became not enough for the lifestyle to which I was growing accustomed. As I was then doing that, a few problems emerged and eventually the site I was so proud of, dropped almost out of site. At this point I didn't care. When I began caring again; about a year ago - the rules had changed. LSI was one of the rules. Lesson? Keyword TERM your site. Emphasize the terms and synonyms so Google [and others] can artificially intelligently decide what your website is about. Like this: Search Engine Optimization, SEO, PageRank, Google, and SERPS. NOT SEO, SEO, SEO. Do this by mixing up your anchor text, adding synonyms and specifics
The second one is just an example; No way could anybody get away with that many links in a paragraph but I hope what I am saying is conveyed correctly. If not, ask me for clarification. Or if someone could say it better, say it better. Think about what your audience would enter in a search engine if what your website offers could benefit that person. I've seen my Living Within Samsara keyword search results and some people are quite particular when it comes to searching for a thing. As technology increases and more websites emerge I know that I have grown increasingly comfortable with entering in very specific phrases. Remember: Synonyms, Descriptive Anchor Text for Links, and Specifics ![]() |












Latent Semantic Indexing is the process Google uses to determine what your is page about based on your keyword terms. Determined ultimately by the words of your site, their connectivity to other words on your site, relational context and synonyms. 





Comments on "Latent Semantic Indexing"
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Becky C. said ... (March 30, 2007 at 2:05 PM) :
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Samsara said ... (April 1, 2007 at 4:10 PM) :
post a commentThanks for the shout sweetie. You did have to do this on one of the days I did one of my stupid posts:)
~Becky
Wasn't stupid.
Even if it were; entitled.
Grumble.