Comments on: Case Study: Google LSI or More Weight Given to Webpage Names?

By: Does Google Use LSI? LSI Services and Their Relevance to SEO | Distinct SEO Blog

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:25:46 +0000

[...] won't pretend to be an expert on the subject because, as noted in an early post three years ago, LSI is a complex mathematical exploration initially explored to find alternative ways of [...]

By: SEO Singapore

SEO Singapore — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:51:05 +0000

Interesting post! Now I know better for LSI, Latest Semantic Indexing is an informational retrieval system that depends on a technique used to process natural language. This is useful for doing long tail keywords research, I do used Google keywords ideas to come out with different combination of words.

By: barry

barry — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:22:16 +0000

Michael, Thanks for your thoughts. Google weighs link names so little that I'm very surprised that it would cause a page to rank for a term in a relatively competitive market. I'm not saying it's LSI in the works but some form of alternate text location. I do, however, recall a Google engineer saying there are components of LSI in the algo, but what their purpose is is beyond me. I liked your post on LSI, I suppose in a sense I can't knock LSI for SEO tools if I start with the premise that LSI on a basic level means word iterations. Some type of synonym 'engine' was/is working to rank our web site for those keywords in my opinion, be it LSI or not. I'm happy to say not, though not eager to drop real LSI applications from the overall Google mix.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:56:35 +0000

Barry - Your example has nothing to do with LSI. Google will quite happily index on keywords in the url provided they are not concatenated (ref: Keywords in urls). Google does indeed use a limited set of synonyms for some keywords in the search term but certainly does not use LSI (ref: The LSI Myth). And yes you are absolutely correct, LSI SEO tools are a scam. - Michael