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Monday, May 20, 2013

Basic Terms of Search Engine Optimization


This is the place where you can find the all the seo abbreviations, terms

SEO- Search Engine Optimization. It is process of improving the visibility of websites in search engines

Search Engine- It is a software that is designed to search for information on world wide web.
Ex; Google, Yahoo, Bing. Dogpile,Yandex  etc

SERP : Search Engine Result Pages. Results displayed on search engines for particular query.

Sitemap- A list of pages that are available on the site to users and search engines. It can be HTML or XML documents

Redirections- It is a process of transferring one url to a different url. There are 2 main  kinds of redirection in seo, 301 and 302

301 Redirection- It is a permanent redirection.This is mainly used when as change of address,where total link juice is passed to redirected url.

302 Redirection- It is a temporary redirection and it does not pass link juice to the redirected url.

Page Rank- It is a measure used by Google to determine the popularity of a page.

Robots.txt- It is a file that contains information about which pages of a website need to be crawled and which pages are to be avoided.

Meta description- This is small piece of information that helps search engines to describe data on webpages.It is used to display snippets in search engine results

Dynamic URL- Urls that contain special characters are called as dynamic urls. These urls are not so seo friendly urls.

Static URLs- These are constant urls and they do not change depending upon the data from remote database

Keyword Density- It is the percentage of times a keyword or phrase appears on a web page compared to the total number of words on the page.

Keyword Stuffing- It is one of black hat technique. It is technique of stuffing the webpage with keywords in order to rank top in search engines

Cloaking-This is one of unethical way to rank in search engines also refereed to as black hat techniques. It is practice of presenting different content to users and search engines.

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