Glossary of SEO Terminology

An SEO Glossary of common terms, acronyms and related web terminology.

We have provided this glossary of search engine optimisation terms to help both, newcomers, and the more experienced SEO'rs out there. It is by no means complete though we have tried to include as much as we can.

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Google

Well really had to list this one first. Google the biggest and best search engine on the planet. Google has become the largest search engine due to its simple design and relevance of its search results. A simple fact that the other search engines don't seem to get. Another two big search engines are Yahoo and Live.

Google Keyword Tool

A very handy little tool for identifying keyphrases. This tool originally meant for the use for adwords campaigns, but can be very good at finding keyphrases.

Google Adwords

Google's paid ads that are displayed on the right and above the organic results. Google adwords is based on a pay per click system, you only pay when a visitor clicks on your ad and visits your website.

Googlebot

Google's spider that searches the internet in search of webpage's to retrieve for its listings.

Google Analytics

A free analytics tool for websites that can gives you statistics on your website. Great tool for viewing how many visitors you have received, what keyphrase people are finding you for and you can even check what links on your website vistors click on.

Google Pagerank

Google ranks each webpage of importance on a scale of 1 to 10. 10 being the highest. Pagerank is so called because of Larry Page who came up with the idea and doesn’t refer to web-page as most commonly believed. If you download the Google toolbar you can view a webpage's Pagerank.

Gmail

A free email client supplied by Google. Gmail is a fast webased application to check your emails.