Like I said previously, SEO tools not only provide useful (additional) information but are also as a great source for inspiration. This time I am looking at a less well-known (despite the fact it has been around for quite a while) keyword research tool that opens up the whole wealth of ideas on how search engines might view the relations between words - Lexical FreeNet - Connected Thesaurus.
The service compiles the list of related terms and also graphically displays the relation.
For example: for a word [search] the tool provides the following list of related terms:
= synonymous words: explore, hunt, hunting, look, look for, lookup, research, seek.
= what an explored word “triggers“: warrant, police, rescue, seized, found, seizure, affidavit, warrants, searches, searched, officers, investigators, premises, missing, information, find, detectives, bodies, rubble, probable, doe.
= “is kind of” (narrowing the meaning): activity, examination, examine, higher cognitive process, inspection, investigate, investigating, investigation, look into, operation, scrutiny.
= “is more general than“: cast about, cast around, comb, digging, divine, dowsing, drag , dredge, exploration, fall for, ferret, finger, fish, forage, foraging, frisking, frisk, fumble, go after, go, grope, grub, looking for, looking, manhunt, maraud, misjudge, nose, poke, prospect, pry, pursue, pursuit, quest after, quest for, quest, ransacking, ransack, re-explore, rifle, rout out, rout up, rummage, scan, scouring, scour, seeking, seek out, shop, slip up, stumble, trip up, want.
= what an explored word rhymes with: church, lurch, perch.
= what an explored word sounds like: serf, surf, serge, surge, cirque, serve.
= is anagram of: arches, casher, chaser.
Besides that, the tool also:
- finds connections between two specified words;
- shows more remote connections (e.g. reachable within 2 links);
- find words related to both specified words;
- restrict results to common words, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs.
The list of data source can is also available.
You might also be interested in a list of dictionaries and reference sources I complied earlier and a few creative keyword research tools.
Comments
5 responses so far ↓
SEO Mumbai on Dec 2, 2008 at 8:20 am
One more addition to my keyword research toolset
WebSite Design Orange County on Dec 2, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Not too sure that using anagrams as keywords is really applicable to your particular site and/or product.
For “WebSite Design”, should we then try to key phrase “Besieged Twins”, “Newbie Digest”, or even “Begins Dewiest”?
Wilee on Dec 3, 2008 at 6:42 am
I use kerwords a lot. And they are all related in somewhere. But in Malay Language.Probably the Search won’t know what they each means anyway.
Wilee
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Richard Fergie on Dec 4, 2008 at 7:01 am
Perhaps anagram matching is part of the expanded broad match algorithm.
I would probably do better than quite a lot of queries that our broad match keywords are getting matched with.
Cool post though. I should add it to my negative keyword tool list (http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2008/11/6-resources-for-finding-negative-keywords.html) since, as you point out, search engines probably use this semantic indexing thing
Paul Burani on Dec 8, 2008 at 8:18 pm
That’s it — we’ve officially made SEO and SEM success attainable to even the lowest life forms. The protozoa never had it so good! Great find.
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