highly-visible glossary

Below is a list of terms and acronyms used throughout the highly-visible site, within SEO and throughout web-development in general:

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  • Anchor
    The name of a tag used in html markup. The anchor tag is used to link to other parts of a web page (also known as internal anchors) and other pages on the web.
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  • bots (see search engine robots)
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  • SEO
    Search engine optimisation. A term used to describe practices that improve a web pages overall ranking within SERPS.
  • SEM
    Search engine marketing.
  • Search engine robots
    Software, designed and built by search engine companies, instances of which visit web pages, indexing content and finding further links as it trawls through html.

    Also known as bots, crawlers and spiders

  • SERPS
    Search Engine Result Pages - the web pages you see after you have performed a search in Google, MSN, Yahoo, ask or anyh other search engine.
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