Ranking/SEO Terms to Know
- Keywords:
The words and phrases people use when searching online.
- Ranking:
Your website's position on search engine results pages (SERPs) when someone searches for specific keywords.
- Backlinks:
Links from other websites to yours, boosting your site's credibility and authority.
- Meta Tags:
HTML tags providing information about your webpage to search engines.
- Algorithm:
The set of rules search engines follow to determine which websites to show for a given search query.
- SERP:
Search Engine Results Page, where users see the results of their search queries.
- Crawler/Bot:
Automated programs used by search engines to scan and index websites.
- Indexing:
The process of adding web pages to a search engine's database.