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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Search engine optimization.
See also changes related to Search engine optimization, or pages that link to Search engine optimization or to this page or whose text contains "Search engine optimization".

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  • Web search engine [r]: An Internet searching program which helps users find specific content. [e]
  • Nofollow [r]: An HTML attribute value to instruct search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index. [e]
  • Hyperlink [r]: A reference in a computer document to a website document in another place; clicking on it brings the user to the hyperlinked document. [e]
  • Link farm [r]: A grouping of hundreds or thousands of web sites connected by hyperlinks built to trick a search engine into thinking web sites are more relevant than they are. [e]
  • PageRank [r]: Google's statistical parameter meant to represent the impact of pages and sites on the web, computed from the links between sites and pages. [e]
  • Meta tags [r]: HTML elements describing basic information about a web page, usually found in the head section of an HTML document. [e]
  • URL normalization [r]: Process by which URLs are modified into a standard format, allowing them to be compared by search engines for uniqueness. [e]
  • Cloaking [r]: In computers, a black hat search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which content presented to a search engine's spider is different than presented to the user's browser. [e]
  • Keyword stuffing [r]: Loading a web page with misleading keywords, sometimes in the meta tags section, to boost rankings; it's viewed as an unethical "black hat" SEO technique. [e]
  • Search engine results page [r]: Acronym for a "search engine results page". It is a screenful of web pages listed by a search engine such as Google or Yahoo or Bing after doing a keyword query. [e]