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1. DNS Prefetch

Using rel=dns-prefetch is a technique of pre-resolving DNS to speed up the web pages. It recommends a browser to resolve the DNS of a domain before calling it explicitly.

2. Silo Structures

It means to organize the website content in a way that is easily understandable for users as well for search engines. It may be called as an inverted tree structure or a pyramid in which the entire content is classified into multiple sub categories with a top level category. All the sub categories are named according to the content in it to avoid any content clutter.

3. Hashbang

Hashbang is a boon for AJAX based sites as search engines are unable to index these websites. Hashbang ( #!) is a number sign followed by an exclamation which helps Google bot in reading and recognizing the URLs.

4. ROAS

Return on Advertising Spending (ROAS) is a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) used by marketers to calculate media effectiveness. You can determine it for both offline and online media campaigns. It can be further stressed on other campaign elements, for example, Google AdWords Ad Groups, discrete keywords within PPC advertising, etc. To calculate ROAS, you need to divide total revenue generated from ad source by the total cost incurred in the ad source. <1 value implies a low revenue generated compared to the cost spent on advertising.

5. AMP

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is an open standard project designed for publishers to make page loading quicker on mobile devices. Its aim is to design webpages that can load fast. This Google-backed project has 3 main components – AMP HTML, AMP JS, and Google AMP Cache.

6. Scrape

Scraping refers to the practice of copying content from another site. It is generally followed by the automated bots.

7. RankBrain

Released in October 2015, RankBrain is the part of Hummingbird and an artificial intelligence program that is used as a way to intelligently interpret the relevant pages for the queries asked by the people that don’t have the exact words.

8. Disavow

Disavow is a medium to let webmasters inform Google that they don’t want specific links coming from external websites to be counted when ranking the site.

9. Dwell Time

It’s the metric responsible for calculating different parameters like user engagement, duration of the session, as well as SERPs CTRs. It works as a data point (not publicly available or understandable) but still influences the search engine results of a site.

10. Favicon

It is a unique icon related to a specific site, visible on the address bar of a browser or next to the website’s name in the bookmarks list.

11. Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs are the links that tell users their location on the site. It is visible at the top of the page and reflects the structure of the page.

12. Doorway Pages

These are the low-quality web pages that act as a door between user and content. They are generally created to spam the specific search results by sending visitors to a different website. These offer less value to the visitors.

13. Google Bomb

It is a black hat SEO technique to increase a webpage’s rank by exploiting the Google algorithm. It involves artificially increasing the number of pages that link to a page by using the main keywords as the link’s anchor text.

14. Affiliate

In SEO, affiliate sites implies to those who promote services/products of an online merchant website. These affiliate websites post links to the merchant site and are paid according to the pre-decided commission.

15. Google Adwords

Google Adwords is an advertising program for the businesses that want to show ads on Google and its respective advertising network. Businesses set keywords and budget for the campaign and only pay when people click the ads.

16. 301 Redirect

Redirection is when you visit a particular page, but it automatically redirects you to another page, which has a different URL than the one you clicked. 301 redirection is a permanent redirection which passes the link juice to the redirected page. 301 is the HTTP status code for this type of redirect.

17. Social Bookmarking

It is a common SEO practice to create quality backlinks in the eyes of search engines to ultimately improve the ranking of keywords. Popular social bookmarking sites are: Delicious, Digg, and StumbleUpon.

18. ALT Tag

ALT tag is an HTML attribute of IMG tag. Like an IMG tag helps in showing images, ALT tag comes handy when it is unable to load. The ALT tag displays the text and thus, help inform search engines about your images.

19. Anchor Text

It is the display text of a link to a web page or site. When you enter text (web URL) it turns blue and becomes clickable. Anchor text defines what the hidden link is about and what you may see after clicking on it.

20. Black Hat SEO

This one may seem familiar, yet you might not know the exact meaning. Black hat SEO includes all the spammy, manipulative, and unethical SEO techniques which are followed against the rules as mentioned by Google. Using black hat SEO tactics may get your site in trouble and it may end up being banned or penalized by the search engines.

21. Deep Linking

Deep linking, is the practice of creating a hyperlink within the content to direct the traffic beyond homepage and other entry pages. This technique reduces bounce rate and improves conversion.

22. Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a software program which helps in collecting and analyzing information or data about a site’s usage. It is a free tool that let us know how the traffic interacts with the website.

23. Authority Site

An authority site is one which has multiple links coming from other related hub or popular sites. These tend to enjoy a considerably higher PageRank and ranking in search engines. For example, Wikipedia is a great authority site.

24. Canonical URL

It is an HTML element that prevents duplicate content by mentioning the “canonical” or “preferred” version of a web page as a part of SEO. There might be more than one page pointing to the same information or containing it.

25. Cloaking

When a website shows different content to users and to search engines, it is called Cloaking. It is a way to manipulate search engines spiders to achieve ranking for specific keywords but providing users with irrelevant content. This can be done by delivering content based on the User-Agent HTTP header or IP addresses of the user.