Pilgrim’s Picks for July 9th
Monday, July 9th, 2007;
-- Andy Beal |
Please excuse the light posting this morning. We switched servers last night and managed about 3 hours of sleep in the process. I’m still working on some glitches, but hope to have everything fixed by the end of the day.
In the meantime, here’s some news of note…
- Both Google and Yahoo are experimenting with new social media technologies.
- Mark Evans reminds us that nothing is “off the record.”
- Dr. E. Garcia is challenging SEO’s concept of LSI. I’ll defer to my former co-worker Mike Marshall, who’s the expert on LSI. As I’m mentioned in the article, I’ll say this: I don’t know the scientific definition of LSI, but I have seen first hand that theme-based SEO can work. If that’s not what LSI is, I won’t mention it again.
- Read/WriteWeb’s Richard MacManus is living the blogging dream!
- Jotspot’s wiki is coming to Google Apps soon!
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July 9th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
The SEO community still doesn’t get LSI. You cannot engage in “LSI optimization”. That is a total non sequitur.
If the search engines were really implementing latent semantic indexing, there would be no need for traditional keyword-based optimization. We would all be optimizing by topic (and so-called “theming” or “theme-based SEO” goes in the wrong direction).
The sooner SEOs give up on LSI the better, because right now anyone selling “LSI SEO” is selling a sham service. There is no such thing.
July 10th, 2007 at 3:00 am
Changing servers and transfering site to new server sometimes needs more administrative effort, if you have customizations on application.
July 11th, 2007 at 1:16 am
Theme based SEO is not LSI. so don’t mention it again.
July 11th, 2007 at 10:28 am
@David - done, I never fully understood it anyway!
December 11th, 2007 at 8:07 am
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March 17th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Changing servers and transfering site to new server sometimes needs more administrative effort, if you have customizations on application.