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Semantic Keywords

Entry #138 / 700 · Chapter 3 · 3.4 Layout, readability and internal linking · Read in Chinese →
In one sentence

The terms belonging to the same subject, which together describe the field rather than repeating the phrase.

Analogy Mental model

Talk about coffee and roasting, grinding, extraction, flavour and arabica arrive on their own. They are what the subject is made of.

In practice What you actually do

Read the top ten and list the nouns that recur. If the page is about search, then backlinks, crawl, snippets and indexing should appear because the subject requires them. Coverage is the signal; repetition is not.

Where people get burned Pitfalls

Forcing a term in because a tool scored it is the mistake such tools encourage. A word that does not belong reads as out of place to a person long before anyone measures it.

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