Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) - theory, praxis, outlook

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LSI is all about relevance and this couldn't be more relevant to what we try to achieve with our blogsites.

I've said it many times - write about your business; stay on message; concentrate on communicating with new and existing customers, and your visibility on the Internet will increase. The idea here is to create a cloud where new customers may find you based on search queries that you did not (and cannot) predict with any accuracy.This is a model that runs in the face of many things we believe to be true about search engine optimization. Predicting what people will type when searching for you is a difficult proposition because it's a process that doesn't factor in problems that people have, and what they look for to solve those problems.To me, going after a narrow set of very specific keywords is risky - it puts your SEO strategy in one basket. Wouldn't it make sense to allow your own writing define the key-terms and phrases in a context that supports the likely problem domains that your target audience experiences?Along comes LSI (<a title="How Does Google Use Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)?" href="http://www.wilsonweb.com/seo/google-lsi.htm" target="_blank">Latent Semantic Indexing</a>) and all of sudden, keywords are de-emphasized. Not only are they de-emphasized, the keywords used to find a particular post don't even have to be in the blog post!If we can assume that search engines are leaning toward LSI implementations (and it seems they <a title="Facts of the week: Google and latent semantic analysis" href="http://www.axandra.com/news/newsletter147.htm#facts" target="_blank">already have</a>), it places the burdon of discoverability on specific ideas and thoughts expressed in a context that is meaningful and clear. The latest indexing shake-up in Google may be an indication of things to come."Latent semantic indexing helps search engines to find out what a web page is all about." -- <a title="Axandra Newsletter" href="http://www.axandra.com/index.htm" target="_blank">Axandra Newsletter</a>If this is true, a blog will be more likely to be found if it is focused; about one topic. A blog post will be more likely to be found if it is about one thing and closely in context with the blog. 9 application/xml false indexing latent semantic indexing LSI search engine SEO Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) - theory, praxis, outlook Latent Semantic Indexing seems to provide a new, but long expected shift in the way the big engines rank sites in the SERPs. http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=40250 Telcordia Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) Demo Machine Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is a novel, patented information retrieval method developed at Telcordia Technologies, Inc. http://lsi.research.telcordia.com/ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091620 Firefox/3.0.2 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 $Admin 71.55.143.162 false true false false true 174050 false false true false false false true 76407 blog blogsite/Blogsite/web