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SEO Glossary

SEO is full of acronyms. Here's a plain-English glossary of the terms you'll actually encounter.

SEO
Optimising a site to rank higher on search engines.
SERP
The search engine results page.
Keyword
A term people search that you target.
Backlink
A link from another site to yours.
On-Page SEO
Optimising content and page elements.
Off-Page SEO
Building authority via links and mentions.
Technical SEO
Making a site crawlable and fast.
Meta Title
The clickable headline in search results.
Meta Description
The summary shown under the title.
Alt Text
A text description of an image.
Anchor Text
The clickable text of a link.
Canonical Tag
Tells Google the preferred version of a page.
Crawling
How search engines discover pages.
Indexing
Adding pages to Google's database.
Core Web Vitals
Google's page experience metrics.
Local Pack
The map box of local results.
EEAT
Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trust.
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