SEO Glossary
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Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)
Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and the...
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is a mathematical technique used in natural language processing and information retrieval to identify patterns and...
Link Juice
Link juice, also known as link equity, refers to the value or authority that is passed from one web page...
Link Velocity
Link velocity refers to the speed at which a website acquires backlinks over time. This metric indicates how quickly a...
LLM (Large Language Model)
A large language model (LLM) is a natural language processing (NLP) system trained on massive amounts of text data to...
Long-Tail Keywords
Long-tail keywords are highly specific, niche search phrases, usually consisting of three or more words. These keywords often have lower...
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Merchant Listing Schema
Merchant listing schema is a type of structured data that allows businesses to provide detailed information about their products to...
Meta Description
A meta description is a brief summary of a webpage’s content. This description is typically displayed in search engine results...
Microsoft Clarity
Microsoft Clarity is a free, user behavior analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors interact with their web...
MySQL
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses Structured Query Language (SQL) to manage and manipulate data...
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NAP
NAP (Name, Address, Phone) in SEO refers to the consistent listing of a business’s basic information across the web. While...
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that focuses on enabling computers to understand, interpret, and...
Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a subfield of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that focuses on enabling computers to comprehend and...
Navboost
Navboost was an algorithm launched by Google in the early 2000s to determine the relevance and importance of a webpage...
Nofollow Link Attribute
A nofollow link contains an HTML attribute (rel=”nofollow”) that instructs search engines not to pass link equity or link juice...
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Off-Page SEO
Off-page SEO refers to the optimization activities that take place on sites other than yours, but which can improve your...
On-Page SEO
On-page SEO refers to the practice of optimizing individual web pages to rank higher and earn more relevant traffic in...
Organic Search Results
Organic search results refer to the unpaid listings on a search engine results page (SERP) that appear because of their...
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PageRank
PageRank is an algorithm developed by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin that measures the importance and authority of...
Paid Links
Paid links are hyperlinks that a website owner or marketer purchases from another website to improve their site’s search engine...