Hullo all.... I was actually just passin through and decided to harass Cranky ( see Fed here too ) and thought I'd put in my 2c
I think it is almost ESSENTIAL to write less around KW Density and think more related words/terms and concepts.
I was on about
Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval earlier this year after 5 or so related patents in Google which caught my eye.
Further to that Bill ( Slawski ) recently asked if I would like to play with him on -
Method and apparatus for learning a probabilistic generative model for text --- which is strangely quite related to many of the concepts of Phrase Based IR ..... ( I think Bill is setting me up- he he). I should be comparing notes with him and posting about it in more detail later this week.
Anyways, it would seem the additional 'layers' in the ranking process are a great way to move away from the heavy reliance on links that Google in particular has. I know they are far more concerned with link spam than anything else over at the WebSpam Team ( over cloaking, kw stuffing, content generators etc...) - so a move towards such systems is logical.
So, I haven't looked at things from the more simplistic ' KW Density' model in quite some time..... but that's me.
Have a read into above documentation and see what U think.... there just seems to be a lot of this direction over the last year or so... and where there is smoke there is usualy fire....
My 2C ..... just passin through :0) .. alive well and ranting again!!