Semantic Linking

Beat Google with semantic link strategies.

[albatross2147]

I have registered a number of domains with a certain domain registry and as a result I get relationship building email (ie. not quite spam) from them along the lines of:

"Search Engine Optimisation in 2004..."

It costs $AU 330 every two months.

Does anyone have any experience of this methodolgy?

[edited by: martinibuster at 6:51 am (utc) on May 7, 2004]
[edit reason] Quoting entire email against the TOS. [/edit]

[Robert Charlton]

It sounds like they're just talking about putting synonyms in some of your links so the anchor text is not all the same. As a start, I'd use the expanded broad matches suggested in the Google AdWords Keyword Suggestions.

I would think that the idea behind this system (and I'm just guessing here; I've never heard of it before) is to have variation in your links but have the links that aren't exact matches do you some good. I can imagine that if anything is too systematic or contrived, Google might eventually detect the artifice if it's worth that kind of analysis to them.

You're trying to duplicate the way people would naturally link to you over time, which might or might not be tricky for you to do. Google probably has info on what a natural distribution is. I don't know what kind of computing power building this into their index would involve. Maybe a programmer could jump in here.

The above is all conjecture inspired by the question.

[nuevojefe]

Edited before I could take a look, but it's always a good idea to use varying anchor text. And if it's going to vary, what better than synonyms?