Does anyone know of any good Latent semantic indexing research tools?

[jasonsluck]

Does anyone know of any good Latent semantic indexing research tools?

[Tom Ryan]

Here is a site that may help with what you need:

Latent Semantic Indexing

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by jasonsluck

Does anyone know of any good Latent semantic indexing research tools?

You don't need one, Jason.

All that "LSI" means, in simple English, is "words that tend to come up on pages that are connected with a given subject".

For example, if you're writing about "goldfish" (major keyword), the "LSI keywords" are going to include things like "tank", "water", and so on. They're simply words that you can't avoid using if you write about your major keyword. And it's precisely because you (and other people) can't avoid using them in that context that they're recognisable - by definition - as "LSI keywords".

You really don't need a "research tool" for this. That's just playing into the hands of people who like to dress things up in long words in an attempt to lend an air of credibility and authority, so that they can make them "marketable" and sell you something completely unnecessary. Please don't encourage them!

[stephenwaldo]

I totally agree with Alexa, although I won't be giving up my WebContentStudio any time soon. I think that as long as you understand what LSI keywords are - not magic but just more words - then using a tool to help you along is just fine. Plus it's nice being able to see what your competitors are doing with their content, which is what WebContentStudio does (and that LSIKeywords website).

But as Alexa pointed out, you really don't NEED a tool for LSI. This is most definitely true.

That being said - that LSIKeywords website is a bit sporatic in when the service works and doesn't work...Last night I was trying to use it and it just kept hanging when I tried to submit a query. Another service you could try, and it's more fun too, is here:

Visual Thesaurus

Pretty cool to play around in there.

Anyways, hope that helps.

Kindly,
- Stephen

[John Romaine]

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

You really don't need a "research tool" for this.

Alexa is right. You dont need one.

You want to find related keywords?

Learn to use the tilda search operator within Google ~

Go to Google.com and type in ~<keyword>

The highlighted keywords are what Google interprets as "LSI"

Heres an example of LSI keywords for "food"

CLICK HERE

[Andyhenry]

Yep - agreed.

This used to be relevant when there were no easily ways to tell what was related, but you can see this stuff easily with a few google searches now.

I used the like the Wonderwheel for this too but they removed it

[Nicola Lane]

As long as you are writing articles for people you don't need to worry about LSI.

It is sued by search engines to determine which keywords to rank your site for.

An example of this is "The Romance of Paris", how would a computer know if your article was about:

Paris, France
Paris, Texas
Paris Hilton the celebrity or
Tom Paris (from Star Trek Voyager)

The answer is that the computer or search engine uses LSI to check what other words appear in the article.

If your article also mentions B'Elanna Torres & Kathryn Janeway then it knows the article is about Tom Paris and Voyager. If The Eiffel Tower and the Seine, then it is about Paris France etc.

When writing an article for people you will include this type of "keyword" automatically. The only people who really need to think about LSI are search engine programmers.

[MrLinkBuilder]

Use thesaurus