Latent Semantic Index (LSI) keywords will boost your SEO, improving your search results page rank, when used in conjunction with your primary search term.

While Latent Semantic Indexing is a rather intimidating term, it is really quite simple, not nearly as threatening as it sounds.

Simply put, LSI words are those which are commonly related to the keyword phrase that you have targeted for your article or post. Google’s search engine uses the presence of these words within your article to determine it’s relevance to the search term used.

Using as many as 20 to 30 of these related keywords within your post will highly improve your search engine page rank. You can use these words within your article, your meta tags, and image tags.

Assuming that you have chosen your primary keyword phrase, and that you have included that in your post title, as well as your first and last paragraphs, you’ll use these Latent Semantic Index words throughout the remainder of your post.

There are many ways to come up with lists of these related LSI words. One way is to read through a couple of highly ranked eZine articles found at the top of the first page of Google’s searches results, and make a list of all of the words in that article which are related to the search term used.

Another method is using the Google Keyword External or Wonder Wheel tools. I’ve provided a little walk through video here, since many people still have not had much exposure to the Wonder Wheel.

I have a related post, Three Keys to Improving Your SEO that includes other tips on improving your SEO which you may also want to read.

Using LSI keywords will boost your SEO, as well as enhance your Alexa ranking. If you are doing any kind of internet marketing then it’s important to include LSI words in your posts and articles in order to improve your search engine optimization to get to the top of the search results.

Wishing you Awesome Success!

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