AdWords – Google’s advertising service for displaying Ads of your website as paid inclusion. More details can be found at https://adwords.google.com
Alt tag – A tag that provides alternative text for visually impaired users. Search engines may pick this text instead of graphical images.
Anchor text – Anchor text is the visible text in a hyperlink. Search engines may pick this up for ranking.
Backlink – Any direct link from another web page to your website. Backlinks can sometimes be known as Incoming Links.
Blog spam (or comment spam) – Automatic posting random comments, promoting commercial services, to blogs, guestbooks, or other publicly-accessible online discussion boards.
Cloaking – Serving a specific page to search engines and a different page to human visitors.
Crawl – When a search engine visits your website and extracts your content for search results.
External links – A link that forwards to a website outside the home domain name (third party).
Filename – A file name, including directory path. https://www.your-domain.com/your-path/your-file.html
Internal links – A link that forwards to a website inside the home domain name.
Javascript – A script language created by Netscape, that can be embedded into the HTML of a web page to add functionality.
Link farm – A set of web pages that have been built for the sole purpose of increasing the number of incoming links to a web site. This is done in order to increase link popularity and search engine rankings.
Meta-tag – A special HTML tag that provides information about a Web page. Generally used for search engines to describe your website.
PageRank (PR) – Google’s method to determine a page’s relevance and importance through the quality of sites linking to it.
Referrer / Referring page – When a user visits your website by clicking a link from another website, the other website is called a referrer.
SEO – An abbreviation for Search Engine Optimization. To optimize and promote your website in a technique that makes search engines rank your website higher in search results.
Spam – Excessive manipulation to influence search engine rankings, often for pages which contain little or no relevant content. Can result in penalization of a website by search engines.
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