January 10, 2008
Latent Semantic Analysis, LSI
If you want to be seen as more relevant from Google, here is how these cool tools can help you to achieve that :
When you write for a website, Latent Semantic Analysis is crucial, you have to consider that the search engines have become more and more sophisticated in understanding if a test is written by an expert or by someone who don't know about a subject. How can they know that??
They can understand that by calculating the related words of a subject! Yes, if you use in your text the same and the same words, with no synonyms in it, the engine will see yours as a poor text, so, to make sure that when your text will be analyzed will be considered and scored good, you have to find related words to have a richer text, full of related words.
There are so many tools that can help you with this necessary enrichment of a text, the basic and very good one is the Google Keyword Tool, this is the best tool and it can give you an idea of so many related terms…
There is an other nit tool and doesn't give you a ton of words like the Google one, and it is also very good, is at quintura.com, free and nice tool.
When you enter a search term, you get sort of a tag cloud of the word or key phrase you typed in. The way it shows you the different related words is that the closer the terms are to the searched word or phrase, the more related.
For the terms that appear bigger and bolder, it means they are more important. So there it is, if you were wondering how to apply latent semantic indexing to your next article, you got it here. This is a very nit tool that can simply suggest the best word to use in an article in order to be more relevant for Google and other Search engines.
In case it gives you some odds results, try to analyze what the terms are, and you will be surprised because the tool is always giving you related words and synonyms that make sense, they are always good, and if you get more interesting words you may use them in your articles or site, most of the terms, are non-obvious sometimes.
An other neet feature is that to "drill down" on these magic words you can put your mouse over a term and you get more results…
This simple little tool allow anybody to understand the world of words related to your main key phrases and keywords in an easier and more intuitive manner. Keep doing your regular keyword research. There is no substitute for this. But make sure to add this related terms in order to be seen as more relevant for a specific topic. Play with the tool, and have fun, it is very useful… See for yourself:
Among my Free Seo Tools this is one that you can't work without it, you will find it very useful when you want to expand the use of words, when you are creating content for your site.




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