Semantic Keyword-rich content

Semantic keywords

[iipmrulz]

How beneficial it is to use semantic keywords while writing a web-content?

[Webwork]

Semantic keywords? That's a new one to me.

Please define "semantic keywords".

Are they somehow different than "keywords"?

How?

[Syzygy]

The poster is, I believe, enquiring as to the benefits that may be had - likely based on Google's tilde-induced ('~') semantic search - in using keyword synonyms and 'related' keywords.

Is that correct, iipmrulz?

Syzygy

[kaybarella]

well if you are optimising for "buy green frogs online" you should probably mention the whole term in its entireity at least once then the rest of the text should incorporate terms such as use green frogs, buy frogs, buying your frog, and online frog, green amphibians, tree frogs, and so on

a little bit like how you would choose your meta keywords (if you still use them for those engines that at a pinch might refer to them)

ummmmm...if thats what you were asking ;)

[Webwork]

Is this what you have in mind: The semantic web [w3.org]?

It's a bit of a different creature than variations of a word, such as synonyms or plurals.

As I understand the direction of the semantic web one of the fundamental ideas is to develop a common markup so that documents and their content can be more readily accessible, understandable, organized, etc. by machines: processors and applications.

I think you're mixing apples and oranges. There's keywords in content that hopefully facilitate proper indexing and then there's markup: "This is a paragraph", "This is a summary . . ." One is the human, readable content - that may help a bot or an indexing system to sort, file, assign, etc. The other - the markup - helps software understand what "it" is that the software is accessing: "This is a personal memo", "This is a note", "This is an introductory paragraph", "This is a 3 axis chart".

I'd stick to calling keyword rich content keyword rich content. I'd leave the "semantic" part to the markup that underlies the visible keyword rich content.

In fact, I'd forget the whole business of "keyword rich content" and just write in a focused manner that humans would enjoy reading, that flows naturally, that isn't redundant beyond that which is basic "good writing". Write for humans with a basic understanding of how a stupid web bot can get confused if your article/page/file wanders around a topic.