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What is “latent semantic indexing,” you ask?
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say on the subject:
“Latent semantic analysis (LSA) is a technique in natural language processing, in particular in vectorial semantics, of analyzing relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain by producing a set of concepts related to the documents and terms. LSA can use a term-document matrix which describes the occurrences of terms in documents; it is a sparse matrix whose rows correspond to terms and whose columns correspond to documents, typically stemmed words that appear in the documents.”
The steep growth of Chinese search leader Baidu.com continued with Thursday’s third-quarter results, but not at the pace investors of its U.S. stock had hoped.
 If you want to get better listings in Google, you need to get high-quality links pointing to your site.
A “high-quality link” is one that comes from a site that’s valued by the search engines because it provides searchers with lots of useful, free information. It usually has a high search engine ranking and a great many links pointing to it, testifying to its importance as an online source of content.
Examples of high quality sites include: online newspapers, encyclopedias, industry-specific information portals, forums, and directories.
So… how do you get links from such powerful sites?
Information might want to be free, as the early hacker proverb contends. But there’s also serious money to be made from it.
Welcome to Day 27.
Today were reading from Proverbs Chapter 27.Â
We often get emails from professional service providers — such as real estate agents, dentists, or lawyers — who want to know how they can use a website to effectively market their services to potential customers.
Most people think of the Internet primarily as a “global” communication tool — they don’t realize that it’s just as effective for promoting a local business.
BUT: in order to create a truly effective local service website, you need to make sure it…