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The SEO Guys :: Web Design & SEOhttp://www.comauth.co.nz/the-seo-guys-blog [The SEO Guys :: Web Design & SEO]  Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a concept whereby your site is also assessed on content other than the keywords that you are obviously targeting in the on-page and off-page elements of the site. Partly, this is to combat using keywords to draw traffic to content unrelated to the keywords - as porn, gambling and pharmacy spam sites are inclined to do. 

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Seobook.comhttp://www.seobook.com [Seobook.com] Google Latent Semantic Indexing Technology : SEO Book.com: LSI considers documents that have many words in common to be semantically close, and ones with few words in common to be semantically distant. This simple method correlates surprisingly well with how a human being, looking at content, might classify a document collection.

[Imnewswatch.com] 'Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) And SEO' - Site-Reference Article: For example, LSI recognizes that the word “engine” in “search engine optimization” is not related to searches for terms like “steam engine” or “locomotive engine” and is instead related to Internet marketing topics. In theory, LSI results give a much more accurate page of results as well as providing a broader range of pages still geared towards a particular topic.

[Seo-3.com] SEO | Search Engine Marketing | SEO Non-Geek Tips - Latent ...: First of all, if you have been following any of my SEO blog post I have been stressing for some time that the future of successful SEO will be a synergetic partnership with the search engines not “can I build sites faster than the SERPS can deindex them” approach.

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