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SEO Lingo
Grab Bag
100

A list of URLs on your site that crawlers can use to discover and index your content.

What is a sitemap?

100

3 places where you should have your keywords on your site for SEO value.

What are Page Title, Headings, Body Content?

100

Typically three local business listings that appear for local-intent searches

What is the local pack?

100

Search engine optimization practices that violate Google’s quality guidelines.

What is Black hat SEO?

100

A word often used interchangably for schema.

What is structured data?

200

A Google tool you can use for search volume for a keyword over months or years.

What is Google Trends or Google Keyword Planner?

200

This type of redirect signals it is permanent.

What is a 301 redirect?

200

It's important these pieces of information are consistent across citations.

What is NAP? (Name, Address, Phone Number)

200

The ratio of clicks to impressions

What is the click-through rate?

200

Name 3 current search engines other than Google.

What are Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, AOL, Ask.com?
(other answers acceptable)

300

The percentage of single-page sessions in which there was no interaction with the page.

What is Bounce Rate?

300

Metrics for this ranking factor include LCP, FID, and CLS.

What is Core Web Vitals?

300

A term used to describe a keyword that includes "near me"

What is a local query/local intent?

300

Longer queries, typically those containing more than three words.

What are Long-tail keywords?

300

These are used in cooking, but also used to trace your path on a website.

What are Breadcrumbs?

400

Used by Blue Corona in Google Analytics to filter by a client's service area.

What is Local Query segment?

400

How many "clicks" it takes to get to a page.

What is crawl depth?

400

A storefront image must contain what to be accepted by Google?

What is signage?

(also accepted: street address)

400

A search result displayed in a non-standard format on Google search.

What are SERP features?

Also accepted: rich result, featured snippet.

400

The type of certificate needed to make a site secure.

What is an SSL certificate?

500

The 4 categories of coverage report errors in Google Search Console.

What is 

  1. Valid
  2. Valid with warnings
  3. Error
  4. Excluded
500

A tag that allows site owners to tell Google which version of a web page is the original and which are the duplicates.

What is a rel=canonical?

500

Update considered the largest of its kind in 5+ years that occurred Nov-Dec 2021.

What is the vicinity update?

500

At least two Google algorithm updates named after animals.

What are Panda (2011), Penguin (2012), Hummingbird (2013)?

500

Domain authority is a proprietary metric of this SEO tool.

What is Moz?