50 Basic Terms used for SEO.
Like any specialized industry, Search Engine Optimization also has its specific terms, and definitions. In this SEO Glossary, most commonly used terms are introduced which you must have to know.
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By: Daniel Faggella |
Search Engine Optimization is a broad topic. So before you start it, you must know some basic terms. So that, you may get aware of it. Let’s start right now
11: Click Through Rate (CTR):
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By: Justas Markus |
To calculate Click-Through Rate, we divide the total number of organic clicks to impressions and multiply them by 100 times.
Click-Through Rate (CTR) = Total number of organic clicks / Total number of impressions * 100
12: Crawler:
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Crawler is also known as Bot, Spider, Web Crawler
13: Crawling:
Crawling is a process that crawls billions of pages on the Internet and adds information to our search engine index and updates and manages it.
Crawl errors are such errors due to which the physical search engine does not crawl the “Bot URL” and returns a “Status Code Error”
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The total number of URLs on a Web site at a specific time period that a search engine wants to crawl or can crawl them, is called a crawl budget
If your link profile includes a large number of spammed, artificial, or low-quality inbound links they may harm your ranking. You can not remove them due to legitimate reason. You may use Google's Disavow Tool to ignore any low quality link from Google.
17: No Follow and Do Follow back links:
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This is such a link search engine “Bot” doesn't follow it. Only a human can follow it. Google does not consider such links. weightage of such a link is very low.
II: Do Follow Back link:
This is a link that is allowed to follow both by Google and other search engines. Search Engine and human both are capable of following the back link from the do follow link.
Do-follow and no-follow links are important in search engine optimization.
18: Competitors: / Competition:
Direct Competitors: Similar products and services are being offered by companies that serve similar needs and similar audiences online and offline.
SEO Competitors: Such companies have similar keywords and organic search visibility, but target different zones and audiences with similar products or services.
When a user completes a desired action on your website, it is called conversion.
Examples of conversions include:
· Complete the purchase.
· Add items to the shopping cart.
· Download premium content.
· Subscribe the email newsletter.
To calculate the conversion rate-
The total number of conversion is divide by the traffic and multiplied by hundred.
These are essential SEO terms that I would like you to understand.
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