LSI vs Partial Match Anchor Text

What's the main difference between LSI and Partial Match? They both seem to be similar right?

What are the LSI anchors would be if my main target keyword is "hoverboard reviews"?

Are LSI anchors are good for PBNS? when compared to partial match?

Thanks

They are not similar.

Partial match anchor contains parts of your main keyword. If your main keyword is "hoverboard reviews", then partial match can be "best hoverboards" for example.

LSI might be for example "best gadgets 2018", "most useless thing ever" or "geeky ways of transport" etc.

Partial match is normally permutations of your main keyword like black hoverboard reviews.

LSI are closely related keywords, or more specific keywords within the same category as your main keyword.

There can be some crossover between the two because often an LSI keyword might contain part of your main keyword and thus it could also be classed as a partial match as well.

LSI will connect to your main keywords in an indirect way, the partial match will contain your main keywords in it.

So, IMO you can use LSI's for PBN that could be effective compared to partial match.

K114a said:

They both seem to be similar right?

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They are not similar at all.

Partial Match = your keyword is part fo the phrase.

Alternatively, it can be just a part of the keyword in this case dog or food.

Example:

Keyword:
dog food

Partial match:
the best dog food store
dog treat
pet food

LSI = Latent Semantic Indexing

In common tongue it could be translated as "connected but not obviously". These words usually have completely different and meaning and even sound different than the "core" keyword but they are connected.

Example:

Keyword:
dog food

LSI:
carnivores
pointed teeth
canine
puppy growth
dog health

As you can see, your brain can easily tell that these keywords are all connected. Robots have troubles with this. That's why LSI was invented.

The best way to find LSI keywords imo is to identify the niche or sub-niche of the keyword. Then find related article on the Wikipedia. Wikipedia's content is filled with LSI keywords. Tha's how I fond the ones above (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_food)

And we all know Wikipedia ranks for everything under the sun. Google absolutely loves it!

Wiki articles in general are dominating.

It's like a pyramid... keyword on top and then supporting words below it.

They are filled with useful information, yet they do not spam the keyword as is common practice among SEOs.

Partial match keyword are somewhat parts of your main keyword. LSI are related to your keyword which people search on google. If your keyword is hoverboard reviews, then LSI are the ones which is at the bottom of search engine result pages.