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Googlebot
Googlebot is a search bot used by Google. It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google search engine. If a webmaster wishes to restrict the information on More…
Googleware
The assortment of tools produced by google that can be used to search, report, play, research Includes (but is not limited to): Blogsearch Google Analytics Adwords Adsense Google Video More…
Googlewhack
A Google search query consisting of two words, that returns a single result.
Grey Hat SEO
SEO using both Black Hat and White Hat techniques.
Hallway page
a page that serves as an index to a group of pages that you would like the search engine spiders to find. Once a search engine spider indexes the hallway page, it should also follow all the More…
Heading tag
An HTML tag that is often used to denote a page or section heading on a web page. Search engines pay special attention to text that is marked with a heading tag, as such text is set off More…
Hidden keywords
Keywords that are placed in the HTML source in such a way that these words are not viewable by human visitors looking at the rendered web page.
Hidden Text - SEO Spam Tactic
Hidden Text is a SEO spam tactic to hide contextual html text from human visitors to a webpage, however making it available to search engines to spider the text. The theory is that if you More…
Hijacking of Websites
Hijacking of websites is a practice that makes search engines believe that a specific website resides at another URL. It is a form of search engine spam and cloaking. The reason why this More…
Hits
a download of a file from a web server. Hits do not correlate with web page visits. Every graphic on a web page counts as a hit. Thus, a single access of a web page with 20 unique graphics More…
Homepage
A homepage is the main page of a website. Like a cover of a book or the front of a store, its function is to welcome people and to inform them of the overall purpose of the website. The More…
HTML
Stands for HyperText Markup Language. The programming language used to mark up web content and display it in a formatted manner. It's up to the web browser software, e.g. Microsoft More…
HTML Source
The raw, unrendered programming code. It can be accessed in Internet Explorer by going to the "View" menu then selecting "Source".
HTTP
HTTP 301 – Status Code Definition The 301 status code means the URI requested has “Moved Permanently” and has been assigned a new URI. Any future requests should use one of the returned More…
HTTP – Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP stands for hypertext markup language and is the main markup language for creation of web pages. It defines how data is structured and informs the web browser how the page is to be More…
Hubs
Hubs are a range of centralized websites linking to many related topical Authority websites. Characteristics of a hub are: Many outbound links to sites (typically Authority sites) that More…
Impression
The number of times your search ad is served to users by search engines.
Inbound links (IBL)
Links that point to your site from sites other than your own. Inbound links are an important asset that will improve your site's PageRank (PR).
Index
A search engine's database in which it stores textual content from every web page that its spider visits.
Inktomi
First introduced in September 1995, Inktomi Corporation from California was a key player in the search engine market where it pioneered online search technologies. It initially provided More…
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