What are LSI keywords

LSI keywords are essentially keywords related to the keywords that you are searching for, and Google does this by using a system known as LSI.Latent semantic keyword are basically keywords that are semantically related to your primary keyword.You have to avoid this repetition of main keywords using LSI keywords.
 
LSI or Latent Semantic Indexing is a complicated term with a simple explanation. The main concept behind Latent Semantic Indexing is to discover words and phrases that are related in the context of any document or group of documents. As teams or individuals create content for the Internet, there is often an overriding goal to have this newly created content found by the search engines.
 
LSI keywords Latent Semantic Indexing are basically keywords that are semantically related to your primary keyword and (LSI) is a mathematical method used to determine the relationship between terms and concepts in content.
 
LSI is just a SEO term for related, similar or synonyms words. Before this term has came into picture the only thing to determine relevancy of article was keyword density. Which means if your post is about “abc” and you have used it 10 times throughout the article than your competitor needs to use it 11 time to beat your position in Google search, but let me ask you, is it fair?? Same Thing applies for search engine, instead of taking high keyword density into consideration, search engine bot looks for related keywords (Latent semantic indexing keywords) throughout the article. It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t maintain keyword density for target keyword in our article, but over optimization can cause issues. I usually keep it between 1- 3 %.

LSI makes a lot of sense too. For example – Search engine discovers a page with the word “Apple” on it, how does it differentiate whether the Apple is a fruit, Apple is a brand or Apple is name of any pet? It uses Latent semantic indexing keywords, if there are words like fruit, taste, flavor in the article then it would be easy for search engine to determine that the article is all about the “Apple fruit”. Hence in this example fruit, taste and flavor can be termed as LSI keywords for keyword “Apple”.
 
LSI keywords (Latent Semantic Indexing) are basically keywords that are semantically related to your primary keyword. Contrary to popular belief, they are NOT just synonym or keywords that are similar in meaning. LSI keywords are also keywords that are sentimentally related with your primary keyword.
 
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