How To Use LSI Keywords in SEO

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Despite keywords being the base of searchable web writing, too many sites neglect it. Therefore, in this article, we will discuss one SEO trick that is going to help you improve the searchability of your blog posts – Synonyms. Synonyms are particularly crucial in SEO.  Most webmasters have stated them as road signs for search engines.

What are Synonyms or LSI Words in SEO?

Synonyms are words that mean the same thing. ‘Large’, and ‘enormous’ are synonyms for huge.

Google has included Keyword Stems in searches for a long time. An excellent example of stemming is where you use the keyword “running”, and Google will provide results with run, runs, or running in their results.

Synonyms, on the other hand, are entirely different words that have no part of the original word within the search.

Here’s a good example: a person might “run” a company or “manage” a company, essentially, “run” and “manage” mean the same thing in this context, even though they are entirely different words.

Why use LSI words for SEO?

Search engines—especially Google—use synonyms and other related terms to figure out what your page is about. This is called latent semantic indexing. Once a search engine has a keyword in its sights, it searches the rest of your copy for context. For example, if your page’s title contains “orange,” you might be writing about fruit, or colors, or Dutch monarchs. But if search bots also find the terms “soccer,” “Netherlands” and “Jersey,” they’ll cleverly assume your page is selling shirts for fans of Holland’s national soccer team.

Using synonyms effectively can make a search engine’s job easier—which can increase your ranking.

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How to use LSI words in an article?

You want to use them in your content and make sure that you use them so that your content reads well. You want to create high-quality content that your visitors will find useful and be glad they found it. Another place you may want to use your synonyms and related words are within your text links, title, URL, meta tags,

How to Find LSI Keywords?

There are many free and paid ways to find LSI keywords. I’m sharing two most popular one and you could pick either:

Google

Go to Google search and look for your target keyword. At the bottom, you will see the related search terms, which are the right LSI keywords that you should use.

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Along with that, you will notice that words on certain search results are highlighted. You should use them in your article. Here is an example:

Find LSI Keywords
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2. SEMRUSH SEO Content writing tool

Harsh has written about this in detail here and for all those who are using SEMRUSH tool, should take advantage of this. By far, it’s one of the best ways to get highly relevant LSI keywords.

My brain is thinking of other potentially good and effective uses for synonyms in SEO, such as linking strategies; but first I want to hear if any of you have had success in using Google Synonyms in your SEO strategies. If so, please share. I would be interested in knowing what others are doing.

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A Blogger, Author and a speaker! Harsh Agrawal is recognized as a leader in digital marketing and FinTech space. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud, and a Speaker at ASW, Hero Mindmine, Inorbit, IBM, India blockchain summit. Also, an award-winning blogger.

11 thoughts on “How To Use LSI Keywords in SEO”

  1. samual smith

    Thanks For Sharing about Latent semantic indexing.I think this is very helpful for everyone.

  2. adil mirza

    but the keywords we get from google are not capable to rank higher, they are too old i think so is there any way to get unique keywords without any cost? it’s difficult to pay for seo tools because i’m a beginner who is not earning from blog

  3. Pasa

    I never there ia a option like this. I also wrote some articles with synonyms. Hope it will give good results.

  4. Tanmoy Das

    Everyday you learn new in blogging and you are growing my knowledge by writing such informative post. Thanks…and I am going to try LSI on my blog.

  5. Pique Dan

    Thanks for this info on latent semantic indexing.It was very helpful.
    There is a spelling mistake “eespecially.”

  6. Jacob Koshy

    I usually use the quick search bar of google and optimize my post title for the synonymous keywords.

  7. Suneel

    Looks like I have to take English classes again or I shud put a thesaurus beside me while writing a post. 🙂

    I observed this a while back and this phenomenon has been sending traffic to my blogs for some similar keywords, aka Synonyms.

    Nice to point it out for the readers.

  8. Rahul

    Just do search again. I did it on google.co.in and google.com. When i searched for “royalty free pictures” for both G.com and G.co.in. no synonym for “photos” is highlighted.
    Also, i searched for “royalty free photos” but no “pictures” highlighted. So, i don’t think synonyms is needed untill it is giving high traffic. By the way ” “royalty free photos” has high traffic and High CPC as compared to “royalty free photos”
    If i wanted to target “royalty free pictures” then i will not bother about “royalty free “”photos””. Good example is royaltyfreepictures.in which is ranking on 10 place now. I will use the words from google tool or other tools.

    Still i say very good post and new thing.

  9. Asad

    Keyword stuffing and keyword density in the articles is very important part of the SEO.Synonyms can work really well in the articles but keep in mind that synonyms should only be used when require otherwise readers will not like your writing style and bounce rate of readers can increase.

    1. TechPaparazzi

      Yes Asad too many synonyms can lead to a huge damage on both SEO factor and Reading too…..

  10. Murlu

    This is really great for writing articles because it can take an article that sort of sounds heavy on keywords and turn it into something that has better readability.

    So now you gain that people can read it more easily and search engines love it 🙂

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