Search Engine Dictionary
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Engine
Search Engine basically is a search
mechanism that allows searching on the Internet against specific
key phrase or information.
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| Directories
Directory is like library where
books are stored in order, here in internet world it stored websites
in order and that order is called category, it has a passive search
mechanism or sometimes directory has its own search mechanism but
that’s not more powerful.
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| Ranking
Ranking refers to the numerical
position a page comes up on a search engine or search directory
based upon it's position given a specific search criteria.
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Submission
Submission is the act of submitting a website to search engines
and directories within the database criterion of each individual
engine or directory. Fortunately for those of us in this business,
some engines utilize the same criteria. Many do not.
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Search
Engine Optimization Firm
Search Engine Optimization Firm is a
kind of firm that has been devoted to Optimize Websites according
to Search Engine’s policies and favorable algorithms, so that their
client’s websites could take top placement at the given desirable
key phrases in top search engines.
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Outsourcing
Search Engine Optimization Outsourcing
Search Engine Optimization is mostly done by a company or a firm than
the individuals, they caused Search Engine Optimization done by them
and don’t let client know that they have done the real work or they
are different than the company that hires them. It’s the same as Search
Engine Optimization, there is no difference at all in Search Engine
Optimization and Outsourcing Search Engine Optimization.
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Search
Engine Positioning/Positioning Search
Engine Positioning/Positioning is the act of massaging various aspects
of a website to closely align with the database criteria of an individual
search engine, primarily through the use of META tags, keywords, description,
content, headings, tags, comments and more. Submission is a part of
Search Engine Positioning/positioning. All of this information is
generated via comparisons between the top websites in any category
that is being optimized for top ranking. A laborious project at best.
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Free
Search Engine Submission/ Free Search Engine Submit
There are few companies & automated softwares
that provide free search engine submission, there are still few Search
Engine which accept free submission, as a free submission client they
don’t give you any guarantee and submission could take 2 to 4 weeks
as well.
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Search
Engine Placement/Placement Search
Engine Placement/Placement is the act of massaging various aspects
of a website to closely align with the database criteria of an individual
search engine, primarily through the use of META tags, keywords, description,
content, headings, tags, comments and more. Submission is a part of
Search Engine Placement/Placement. All of this information is generated
via comparisons between the top websites in any category that is being
optimized for top ranking. A laborious project at best.
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Search
Engine Ranking Service Search
Engine Ranking Service is the service, which cause top ranking or
high ranking in search engines on the desirable key phrases provided
to the SEO Companies.
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Search
Engine Submission Service Search
Engine Submission Service is a service which gives search engine submission
provided by seo companies.
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Search
Engine Positioning Service/ search Engine Optimization Service/ Search
Engine Placement Service Search
Engine Positioning/optimization/placement Services are the services
which give search engine positioning/optimization/placement provided
by seo companies. It includes optimization, submission and getting/maintaining
top ranking in major search engines.
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Top
Search Engine Ranking/Search Engine Ranking/ Improve Search Engine
Ranking Top Search
Engine Ranking/Search Engine Ranking/ Improve Search Engine Ranking
refers to the numerical position a page comes up on 1st or 2nd page
of a search engine or search directory.
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SEO
SEO is an abbreviated form of Search Engine
Optimizer, they are the professionals who do Search Engine Optimization
against the desirable key phrases, it’s an expert field they need
to concentrate on the all Search Engines and their varying policies.
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Search
Engine Marketing Search
engine marketing includes Banners advertising, Bidding, CPC Adword
and Listings, all efforts is to keep top & relevant traffic in Search
engines called search engine marketing.
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Optimize
Optimize or search engine optimization
refers to changing and/or adding various HTML tags, such as Meta Tags,
summary, title, alt, and content (text) and readies the page to be
spidered by a search engine and, if done correctly, to rank very high
in the results of a particular search on a search engine.
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Search
Engine Registration It’s
a procedure of registering a particular website in Search Engines,
mostly website address, e-mail, site title and description is required
in this process.
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Search
Engine Submission Company Search
Engine Submission Company is the company which provides submission
of websites in the search engines both free & paid submission.
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Search
Engine Submission Search
Engine Submission is a process which normally is to submit websites
in to search engines after optimization of websites.
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Search
Engine Optimization/ Optimization/Web Site Optimization
In Search Engine Optimization/ Optimization/Web
Site Optimization, websites have to be search engine friendly according
to search engine policies by professional SEOs or Webmasters.
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Search
Engine Promotion/Promotion Search
Engine Positioning/Positioning is the act of massaging various aspects
of a website to closely align with the database criteria of an individual
search engine, primarily through the use of META tags, keywords, description,
content, headings, tags, comments and more. Submission is a part of
Search Engine Positioning/Positioning. All of this information is
generated via comparisons between the top websites in any category
that is being optimized for top ranking. A laborious project at best.
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Keyword
Frequency Keyword Frequency
is how often a keyword appears on a page and in specific areas on
a page. The more times a keyword shows up on a search engine submission,
the more relevant it will be to that search. If overdone, some engines
and directory's will downgrade the page due to what they term as spamming.
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Spider
Spider programs, also called robots, enter
your website and categorize the information contained in the site
and the META tags, which at some point is indexed into the search
engines database and subsequently is ranked based upon the keyword/phrase
for that page.
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Automated
Robots or Search Engine Spiders Automated
Robots or Search Engine Spiders are invisible little web creatures,
crawling all over the WWW, inspecting, indexing and (who knows what
else they may be doing! I've always wondered why I've had unexplainable
itches while surfing the web) web sites.
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Domain
Squatting Domain squatting
is when somebody finds a domain name they like (someplace.com, for
example), registers the name and just sits on it. They don't have
any intention of creating a site or using the name for marketing purposes.
All they hope to do is have somebody else want the site and offer
them a great deal of money.
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FFA
FFA pages (Free For All) are not search
engines or directory's. They are, for the most part, pages that simply
take submissions that usually stay active for a period of time. A
submission is placed at the top of their list and then moved down
and eventually out as other submissions are made. These sites are
rarely recommended and usually result in the reception of a flood
of unwanted e-mail and solicitations.
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Content
Content Is the contents of your website,
or more specifically, the contents of the specific page in question.
In order for a page to rank well, the content of the page must be
in align with the chosen keyword for that page.
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Keyword
Placement Keyword Placement
refers to the many areas on a web page that a search engine looks
for in a search and include the page title, heading, body as well
as link text and even in comment tags. (This is still important but
is becoming less important to some engines and spiders.)
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Keyword
Prominence Keyword
Prominence is how close to the start of the page content that the
keyword appears. In general, a keyword that appears closer to the
top of the page or area will be more relevant to some search engines.
However, sometimes it helps to have a keyword in the middle of an
area, or even toward the end of the area.
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Keyword
Weight or Density Keyword
Weight or Density is simply a factor in percentage form of a keyword
or phrase in relation to all other words on a page.
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Keywords
Keywords Generally refers to any word
or phrase the user might search for in order to find a Web site or
a page. Each variation of a keyword, such as the plural form of the
word, is treated like a separate keyword. Phrases (i.e., a string
of multiple keywords) is generally used interchangeably.
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Listings
Listings refers to the report or result
of a engine or directory search, usually 10 to 20 per page. (where
your site appears in the listing is the 'rank' of that page on that
search engine.)
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META
Tags META Tags META
tags are part of HTML but are there for the sole use of search engine
spiders. These (numerous) tags contain various information that the
site owner wants to deliver to these spiders.
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Phrases
Phrases are (keyword phrases) are combination
of keywords than are descriptive of your website content category
and are optimized to those words that a typical web searcher may use
when searching for content.
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PPF
(Pay-for-placement) or CPC (Cost-per-click) PPF
or CPC is a fee-based form of search engine marketing. It allows you
to pay for a high ranking on a search results page for a given keyword
or phrase. Also known as Pay Per Click (PPC). In this respect it presents
a quick shortcut to getting the ranking you want, as long as you are
willing to pay the going rate, which is sometimes available for everyone
to see.
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Results
Results the results displayed by a search
engine or directory after a search term has been entered.
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Site
Popularity Site Popularity
in a nutshell is simply how many other websites link to yours. If
your popularity value is null, it is not the end of the world, but
it definitely is a factor in the ranking process on some engines,
and there are specific methods that can be employed to increase a
sites popularity. Some engines used to rate popularity simply by the
number of hits a site got. Now it's a bit more sophisticated and some
even rank higher, sites that have links to them that are highly relevant
to the site in question.
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Cloaking
Cloaking is the process of delivering
one version of a page to a user, and a different version to another
user such as a search engine. The benefit is code and copyright protection.
There are alternative uses for cloaking such as custom language delivery,
IP based delivery for broadband users, and geo-targeted advertising
based on users earthly location.
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Doorway
Pages Doorway pages
are created to do well for particular phrases. They are also known
as portal pages, jump pages, gateway pages, entry pages and by other
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