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Here's an example we've noticed in December 2006:

Here's an example we've noticed in December 2006:

The [[Directory:Church of the Loving Shepherd|Church of the Loving Shepherd]] is located in [[Directory:West Chester, Pennsylvania|West Chester]], [[Directory:Pennsylvania|PA]]. Assume that you were driving by the church one day, but you only caught a glimpse of the church's full name.  Later that day, you might search Google using a pretty common method: entering ''city + name'' fragments, which in this case might be the stream-of-thought keyword phrase ''West Chester church shepherd'' (because that's all you remembered from your drive-by observation). Here is the actual result you would get on Google:

[[Image:CLS_Stained_Glass.jpg|thumb|right|200px|CLS window depicting "Wisdom"]]The [[Directory:Church of the Loving Shepherd|Church of the Loving Shepherd]] is located in [[Directory:West Chester, Pennsylvania|West Chester]], [[Directory:Pennsylvania|PA]]. Assume that you were driving by the church one day, but you only caught a glimpse of the church's full name.  Later that day, you might search Google using a pretty common method: entering ''city + name'' fragments, which in this case might be the stream-of-thought keyword phrase ''West Chester church shepherd'' (because that's all you remembered from your drive-by observation). Click the following link to see the actual result you would get on Google:

See how the semantic tags recorded in the [[Directory:Church of the Loving Shepherd|Church's]] Centiare Directory listing improves not only Google's search term relevance, but also triggers the correct address and contact information to be displayed?

 

 

See how the semantic tags recorded in the [[Directory:Church of the Loving Shepherd|Church's]] Centiare Directory listing improve not only Google's search term relevance, but also trigger the correct address and contact information to be displayed?

In addition to context and relevance, semantic tags also improve overall rankings through the effect of Centiare's internal ''link-farming''. That is, the combination of Centiare listings, automatically-generated summary reports (at the end of each listing), cross-referenced [[Centiare:ASK|ASK]] queries, and (probably) our tolerance of Google AdSense ads, '''all''' serve to improve overall search rankings by providing multiple reference points.

In addition to context and relevance, semantic tags also improve overall rankings through the effect of Centiare's internal ''link-farming''. That is, the combination of Centiare listings, automatically-generated summary reports (at the end of each listing), cross-referenced [[Centiare:ASK|ASK]] queries, and (probably) our tolerance of Google AdSense ads, '''all''' serve to improve overall search rankings by providing multiple reference points.