Commonly used terms in SEO
Adwords
Advertising system provided by Google(Pay Per Click).
Backlinks
Links that came from other websites,otherwise known as Inbound Links. Coming in links.
Blog
An outcome of views, insights and opinions of a person. Oftentimes called as Web Log.
Black hat SEO
The unethical use of SEO. Wrong tactics.
Bookmark
A website/link has been bookmarked, tagged or added to favorites.
BAP
Blog and Ping. A procedure used by some bloggers to get ranked in Search Engines.
CMS
Content Management System. A tool to make a website. Premade themes and plugins.
Copyright
Legal publication. A certain person own that particular content or website.
Directory
A list of all webpages in the internet.
Feed
Tool to allow readers to subscribe to contents of a website. Such as allowing the users to be updated with the latest posts on your site.
Fuzzy Search
Mispelled search.
Google
Leading Search Engine in the world.
Keyword
A word or phrase which is used in optimizing a certain site
Keyword Stuffing
A massive production of keywords in a website
Landing Page
The first page where the visitor can see after clicking
Link Building
A process or strategy in SEO
No Follow
An html attribute which stops the bot from following a certain link
Outbound Link
A link from a certain website going out to another link. Otherwise known as external link.
Pagerank
Shows the ranking of your page or website
Quality Content
A fresh and relevant content or topic.
Reciprocal Link
Some example of Link Exchange
SERP
Search Engine Results Page. Shows the ranking of a webpage in the search engines
Splog
Spam Blog
URL
Uniform Resource Locator otherwise known as Links
Whois
A certain tool used to detect the owner of a certain website or IP address
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