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- Absolute Link
- The above is an example of an Absolute Link. It specifies a transfer protocol domain name and often a file name
- Accessibility
- Accessibility is the practice of making websites usable by disabled people - especially blind people. Because search engines are essentially blind (ie they can't see pictures or use More…
- AdSense
- Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money. Because the ads are related to More…
- AdWords
- Google's CPC (Cost Per Click) based text advertising. AdWords takes clickthrough rate into consideration in addition to advertiser?s bid to determine the ad?s relative position within More…
- Agent Name
- This is the name of the Crawler/spider that is currently visiting a page. Spider is a robot sent out by search engines to catalogue websites on the internet. When a spider indexes a More…
- AJAX
- Asynchronous JavaScript And XML Allows you to create a more user-friendly web application by working behind the scenes (inside a web browser) by making web pages feel more responsive. In More…
- Algorithm
- An algorithm is an operational programming rule that determine how a search engine indexes content and displays the results to its users.
- AllTheWeb
- “AllTheWeb” is a search engine owned by Yahoo and using its database.
- Alt Attribute
- The ALT attribute is designed to be an alternative text description (provide a text equivalent) for images. Benefits
- Alt tags
- Alt tags alternate text associated with a web page graphic that gets displayed when the Internet user hovers the mouse over the graphic. Alt tags should convey what the graphic is for or More…
- Anchor text
- Anchor text is the actual text part of a link (usually underlined). Used by search engines as an important ranking factor. Google pays particular attention to the text used in a hyperlink More…
- Animated Ad
- An ad with movement, often an interactive Java applet or Shockwave or GIF89a file.
- announce site to search engines
- "Announce" a website to the engines by adding a link to it from another site; that is, one that's already indexed (by the search engines).
- Announcing
- submitting a web page address to a search engine in the hopes that it will index it. Submitting your pages using an automated tool (see "automated submitting"), submitting More…
- API
- Abbreviation for Application Program Interface. An API is a set of routines, protocols and tools for building software applications; it determines how a service is invoked through the More…
- ASP
- An acronym for Active Server Pages, a Microsoft-invented, proprietary programming language for building dynamic web sites. ASP is also an acronym for Application Service Provider, a hosted More…
- Automated Submitting
- Automated Submitting is using automated software such as WebPosition Gold or an Application Service Provider (ASP) such as Microsoft b-central's Submit-It service to submit your web More…
- Back links
- Back links are inbound links pointing to a web page. Links that point to your site from sites other than your own. Inbound links are an important asset that will improve your site's More…
- Bait and Switch
- Bait and switch is considered as a spam technique when used in SEO. It provides one page for a search engine or directory and a different page for other user agents at the same URL. More…
- Banned
- When a search engine blocks your site from appearing in its search results.
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