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SEARCH OPTIMIZATION

A Glossary For Search Engine Optimization
By: Darrin Ward
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    2003-07-29

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    A Glossary For Search Engine Optimization - SEO Glossary N-Z


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    Northern Light - An older search engines, once very popular.

    Open Directory Project - A large directory of websites run by volunteers. Their database is used by many website across the internet.

    Optimization - Fine tuning a website or webpage with the ultimate goal being to ascertain a higher position in all or a specific search engine's results.

    Outbound Link - Linking from your website to another website.

    Page View - The number of times a page was loaded.

    PopUp - The opening of a new window above the previous window.

    PFI - Pay For Inclusion. This is where a site must pay to be listed at all.

    Pop Under - A pop-up that loads under a page so that it is only viewable when the current page is closed.

    PR - Google's Page Rank. The higher the rank the better position your website or page will have in their results.

    Query - A search phrase submitted to search engines.

    Rate Card - A sheet with pricing information.

    Reciprocal Link - Where 2 sites exchange links.

    Referrer - The page from which a user has come.

    Refresh Tag - A tag which defines when and to where a page will refresh.

    Robot - Generally the name given to a spider / crawler. Anything that is not a human visitor.

    Robots.txt - A file created to direct the search engine spiders in specific directions of the website.

    Scooter - The search crawler of Altavista.

    Search Engine - A site which searches the web for sites which are relevant for a given search query.

    SERP - A search engine results page.

    Slurp - The Inktomi search crawler.

    Spider - A program that visits and downloads specific informaiton from a webpage.

    Submission - Submitting a site to a search engine or directory.

    Traffic - The visitors and page views on a website.

    URL - Uniform Resource Locator. The address at which a specific resource can be found.


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