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Semantic SEO

Entry #168 / 700 · Chapter 4 · 4.2 Refreshing, pruning and topical authority · Read in Chinese →
In one sentence

Building content around subjects and the entities they contain, rather than around one phrase.

Analogy Mental model

An article about coffee that mentions arabica, roast level, extraction pressure, flavour wheel and caffeine content rather than repeating the word coffee. The vocabulary is the evidence of understanding.

In practice What you actually do

Read the top ten for the concepts that recur, then check the draft covers them because the subject requires them. Tools can list the entities, and the judgement about which ones belong is still yours.

Where people get burned Pitfalls

Semantic SEO is not a synonym-swapping exercise. If you do not understand how the concepts relate, the page reads as a list of terms and the reader notices before any model does.

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