SEO Dictionary
The SEO dictionary lists the words you might have found within the pages of this site in the order that you were most likely to find them. This has been done because there is nothing more irritating than scanning down a list of definitions only to find that you need to look up the words being used to describe other words. In very bad cases you will need to read a list six or seven times before you can be sure to understand each item on it. This is my attempt to stop that.
- Traffic
- The flow of visitors to a page, site or server
- SEO
- The art of looking good for search engines
- SERP
- Search Engine Results Page - The Holy Grail of SEO
- SEM
- The use of SEO to market of sell products. Ideally this should be part of a wider marketing strategy.
- A leading Search Engine
- CMS
- Content Management System - software for managing the content of your site
- Gray Bar
- A page that is not even Page Rank 0 (which is a white bar) but "unknown" or "unavailable" which means that it is very new or it is banned from the index.
- Directory
- A listing of sites organised by category or tag linking to relevant (or not) sites for that tag or category.
- Black Hat
- An SEO (or hacker) with little by the way of morals
- White Hat
- An SEO focused on the prime concern of quality of content
- Bananna Pie
- A food item invented to illustrate a few points.
- URL
- The address of the page you are looking at or want to look at.
- Blog
- A blog is a website where content is added regularly and the freshest is shown first. this is a blog.
- Fresh Content
- Content that has not been around long enough to go "stale". Probably not read by many people yet.