Keyword Meta Tag: A meta tag formerly used by all search engines that listed the keywords for a particular page. As search engines improved and spamming of these tags increased by webmasters, search engines dropped them from their algorithms. Yahoo is the only major search engine that admits to considering the Keyword Meta Tag, although […]
Keyword Popularity: Quantity of searches done for a particular keyword over a specific period of time. These statistics may be found various keyword tools including Google Keyword tool, Wordtracker, and the Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool.
Keyword Prominence: The location of a keyword phrase within a webpage. Keyword phrases should appear early, and regularly within the content.
Keyword Stuffing/ Keyword Spamming: The act of repeating keywords in meta tags and content in an effort to influence SERPs. Major search engines look for such techniques and apply penalties to sites they identify.
Link (noun – see Hyperlink) verb – allowing a visitor to visit another webpage by placing a link to its URL (via text or image) in the current visible page.
Link Anchor Text aka text link. The text contained within a link that the user may click upon. Using keywords in the anchor text of a link passes relevance to the page that is linked to.<!–mep-nl–><!–mep-nl–>Example:<!–mep-tab–> Be sure to email me if you believe “Nice Guys Finish First” is the best search engine optimization book […]
Link Building – Developing link relationships (either one-way or reciprocal) with other websites for the purpose of improving traffic or ranking in the SERPs.
Link Exchange aka reciprocal linking where two or more websites agree to place each other’s links on their websites. Used to cross-promote related industries, and increase the perceived value of the site in the eyes of search engines.
Link Farm aka free-for-all (FFA) Link exchange programs that are deemed by the search engines to have no value to the Internet user. Allegedly, their sole purpose is to manipulate the search engine rankings. The sites feature links in no particular order which are unrelated to each other. Linking to these sites may be considered […]
Link Popularity: A measure of both the number of inbound links to a website (denoting popularity) weighted by the quality of the incoming links (determined by the link popularity of the referring sites). <!–mep-nl–><!–mep-nl–>Example: Google made known their Pagerank scores, which are a logarithmic function of the general popularity of a webpage.
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