SEO Terms
When a link from an outside webpage points to your webpage.
What is a backlink or inbound link?
Google is looking for Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness (E-A-T) in what aspect of websites?
What is content?
The process of storing and organizing content found during the crawling process.
What is indexing?
The common language used on all web pages.
What is HTML?
The process of combining a bunch of the same coding language files into one single file.
What is bundling?
These are links that connect pages within the same site.
What is an internal link?
Adding as many keywords as possible to the content you have created.
What is key word stuffing?
Ordering search query results by most relevant to least relevant.
What is ranking?
The results page on a browser showing search results.
What is SERP?
Condensing a code file by removing things like line breaks and spaces, as well as abbreviating code variable names wherever possible.
What is minification?
Pointing a URL to the new address where search engines with find a page that has moved.
What is a redirect?
When a page is tagged to inform search engines not to index a page or website, excluding it from appearing in search engine results.
What is no index?
When a search engine scours the Internet for content and looks over the code they find.
What is crawling?
What is hyper-text markup language?
When a page exists on a site but is not linked to any other pages or menus on the site.
What is an island page?
The percentage of all website sessions where users viewed only one page.
What is a bounce rate?
When a page takes several click levels from home page to reach.
What is deep content?
Clickable headlines that appear in SERPs (search engine results pages).
What are title tags?
The ability of your website to adjust its design to different sized devices.
What is responsive design?
What GSC stands for.
What is Google Search Console?
When a user views your page but returns right away to the SERP.
What is pogo-sticking?
Content that appears in more than one place within a site or also appears on a different site.
What is duplicate content?
A system used to retrieve data from a search index such as Google and instantly deliver the best possible results for a query.
What is an algorithm?
Words and phrases that users type into search engines to find information on a particular topic.
What are key words?
How well information on a website corresponds to a user's search query.
What is relevance?