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Does 'LSI keywords approach' help ranking your articles?

by Loreen McDowell
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I was inspired by John XFactor long ago, and used to follow his 'lsi keywords' approach that helps to make your content really themed and relevant to the target topic (keyword).

Question - do you practice this method when creating articles? According to your experience, do you think it works?
#approach #articles #keywords #lsi #ranking
  • Profile picture of the author Slin
    Don't know about this John Xfactor thing, but I use LSI keywords, I find that the proper use of LSI and keyword density helps sites rank a lot higher.
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    • Profile picture of the author Loreen McDowell
      Originally Posted by Slin View Post

      Don't know about this John Xfactor thing, but I use LSI keywords, I find that the proper use of LSI and keyword density helps sites rank a lot higher.
      Thanks for reply, what tools do you use and find most effective and convenient?
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      • Profile picture of the author Slin
        Originally Posted by Loreen McDowell View Post

        Thanks for reply, what tools do you use and find most effective and convenient?
        Sorry I never saw this reply.

        I sometimes use LSIkeywords.com

        But usually I just target a few related keywords on the same page, in the end it gets me more traffic and gives Google the diversity that they want. To be honest now that I've done some more research I think LSI keywords may be a bit overhyped, but I don't see it hurting my sites at all.

        A general rule of thumb is take a look at the top sites for your keyword, what is their keyword density like? Do what the top guys are doing, you'll start ranking quickly.
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  • Profile picture of the author RankFastContent
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    Hi Loreen. Featuring LSI terms in your content can definitely help you rank better. In fact, if you get the right mix of LSI words, synonyms, grammatical variations, and long-tail phrases into a quality article, it is fairly easy to rank it at the top of the SERPs for many different related searches.

    There are many methods and tools for finding LSI's, but a simple one is to just use the Google Keyword Planner. Type in your primary keyword, hit the "get ideas" button, click the "keyword ideas" tab, and make sure the terms are sorted by relevance. The searches near the top of the list will feature some good LSI words you can use in your content!
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  • Profile picture of the author cypherslock
    Yes it does, just make sure you're always writing for your readers. Not rankings, not the search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author brettb
    I built a tool for finding LSI keywords (here).

    Do they actually work?

    I read an article somewhere where a guy wrote two articles, one using LSI and one not using it. The LSI article didn't rank any better (I guess he was looking at rankings for his main keyword).

    However, in the past I know that using a different LSI tool (Web Content Studio) to write my articles I did get traffic from people searching for a synonym of my keyword. This was a word that we Brits don't really use, but if I was targeting US traffic I'd be wise to use it.

    So yes, LSI *does* work, especially if you need more long tail traffic.

    Plus if you do some LSI research you'll come up with all kinds of ideas for articles, especially if you don't know a particular niche too well.
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    • Profile picture of the author RankFastContent
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      One quick thing...

      Most of the so-called "LSI experiments" I've seen were flawed. The non-LSI articles still contained quite a few related, relevant terms, helping them to rank as well as the LSI articles. Just because words don't show up in some LSI research tool doesn't mean they aren't valuable in terms of boosting optimization.
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  • Profile picture of the author Loreen McDowell
    cypherslock, RankFastContent, Slin
    thanks! I'm about to perform some experiments, with this approach, comparing to articles without any 'lsi' optimization. And definitely let you know my results!

    brettb
    very nice tool! thanks for posting this here.
    I'm currently testing a couple of similar applications that help research lsi keywords
    both synonymous and related:
    Ultimate Keyword Hunter and http://lsikeywords.com.
    And find them interesting, I needed some analysis also of what I'm writing on.

    Will try yours also!
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