Glossary: # to S
200: page successfully accessed
404: page unsuccessful
AdCenter: Microsoft's Pay-per-Click portal
AdWords: Google's Pay-per-Click portal
Broken Link: Hyperlink that fails and could make a site less relevant
CGI: Acronym for Common Gateway Interface that adds interactive pages to a website
Clickthrough rate: Percentage of people who click on an advertisement they viewed
Cookie: Small data file that tracks users and conversions
Cost per click: When an advertiser is charged a certain price per click
Crawl Frequency: How frequently a website is crawled
css: Cascading style sheets is a separate file containing style information for your html pages
Dedicated Server: Server for the benefit of a single business
DNS: Domain Name Server and is the descriptive .com/net etc name to which your IP address resolves
Domain: Name of website
Dynamic Content: Web content that performs functions
External Link: Link that references another domain
favicon.ico: Logo for indexing that appears on the left of a URL in a browser
FTP: File Transfer Protocol is a protocol for uploading files from a computer to a server or vice versa
GoogleBot: Google's search engine spider
Google Webmasters: Sign-up portal focused on your site’s statistics, links, and clicks. There is also recommendations for your website and an instant alert for malware and crawl errors
Hidden Text: SEO technique to communicate with search engine spiders and robots but is not served to visitors
html: Code used for webpages
http: Protocol for servers and web browsers
href: Text linked to a URL
img alt: Written description of an image, that helps search engines
ISP: Internet Service Providers that allow users to access the web and, more recently, to control how users interact with the web
JavaScript: Scripting language that can be embedded into html to add dynamic features such as Contact Forms
Keyword: Word or phrase that targeted prospects are likely to use in a search
Keyword Research: Discover what words and phrases will best inform your SEO direction
Landing Page: Where a visitor arrives after clicking on a link
Link Baiting: Creating links to your site, especially through social media or blogs
Link Building: Process, over time, of building high quality links that will be utilized by search engines in ranking your site
Link Equity: Measure of how strong a site is based on its inbound link popularity and the authority of the sites providing those links
Log Files: Server files which show you what your leading sources of traffic are and what people are search for to find your website
Manual Review: When search engines offer a manual review of their automated algorithms. This could be when a site is hacked, once the problem is solved the manual review is requested and everything goes back to normal in the search
meta tags: Directions for robots and search engines
Mirror Site: Site that duplicates the content of another website
Mobile searches: Website optimization for smart phones and other portable browsers (i.e. some code and pages built with a larger font)
Natural Language Processing: Algorithms that consider intent in a search query
No follow code: Robots being instructed not to follow
Organic Search Results: Search listings ordered by relevancy that is determined based on linkage data, page content, usage data, shared tweets, and historical domain and trust related data
Outbound Link: Link from one website pointing at another external website
PDF: Printer friendly Adobe documents that do not allow editing
Personalization: Search results that reflect a person’s location and interests
PHP: Script that adds interactivity to webpages
Portal: Website offering common consumer services such as news, email, other content, and search
PPC: Pay-per-click. A business operating a website pays a search engine whenever its ad is clicked in response to a keyword search
Quality Link: Link from a trustworthy website related to your content
robots.txt: What files are allowed to be crawled or avoided
Search Marketing: Constant and specialized marketing a website by writing html and css that is easily read by search engines and submitting website details to search engines. Search engine marketing’s best results are achieved when an ongoing process of content renewal and announcements continue overtime to maintain real time relevance of your website and other web-based opportunities, including mobile phones
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