TheRarestWords: New Semantic Web SEO Tool
As is reported by Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch, TheRarestWords.com is a new SEO tool developed by an unknown Russian developer. Right now, it’s still pretty rough, but provides some fascinating and helpful information about yours and your competitor’s websites.
If you go to therarestwords.com and put in your site (you may need to ask it to add your site), it will return to you the rarest words on your page, which if entered in a search engine, are most likely to give you traffic. It also shows you the sites with the most similar keywords to yours, a long with a list of rare, common, and overly popular keywords from your site. For equari.com, few of the rarest words on our frontpage are “whopping,” “scrambling,” and “zuckerberg.” And those were all contained in one phrase I wrote (okay, not really).
In addition, it lets uses attach a 100 word definition to each keyword that comes up, although it appears as though at least half of these definitions are bogus looking. For example, for the keyword “mapquest,” somebody wrote “A sad sad competitor to Google maps.” Not exactly helpful.
For now, the site only crawls through frontpages, but has managed to index over 20 million words since it went online earlier this month. Some goals include a trendspotting tool that lets you see which words are gaining the fastest in popularity as well as a categorizer that is in beta stage right now (the author admits his original algorithm for this is “bad” since he has know knowledge of categorization algorithms).
Another feature is an SEO “fight” where the user can type in their site and competitor’s and see what rare words your site has that the other doesn’t. Type in http://therarestwords.com/vs/your-site.com/competitors-site.com and have a look at it.
It will be interesting to see what other semantic web and SEO tricks this mysterious fellow has up his sleeve.
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