Clickthrough | SEO Glossary: C

The action of clicking an ad element and causing a redirect to another web page.

Clickthrough | SEO Glossary: C

The action of clicking an ad element and causing a redirect to another web page.

Clickthrough | SEO Glossary: C

The action of clicking an ad element and causing a redirect to another web page.

Clickthrough | SEO Glossary: C

The action of clicking an ad element and causing a redirect to another web page.

Click-down Ad or Click-within Ad | SEO Glossary: C

An ad that allows the user to stay on the same web page, while viewing requested advertising content. Click-downs display another file on the user's screen, normally below or above the initial ad.

Click-withins allow the user to drill down for more information within the ad.

Cgi-bin | SEO Glossary: C

A "virtual" directory contained in URLs indicates a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) script is in use. A sure tip-off to the spider that your page is dynamic.

Cache | SEO Glossary: C

Copies of web pages stored locally on an Internet user's hard drive or within a search engine's database. A cache is the reason why web pages load so quickly when a user hits the Back button in their web browser, since the page is not being re downloaded off of the Internet. Google is unusual among search engines in that it allows Internet users to view the cached version of web pages in its index. Simply click on the word "Cache" next to the search result of interest and you will be taken to a copy of the page as Googlebot discovered and indexed it.This feature of Google makes it easy to spot cloaking..

Bait and Switch | SEO Glossary: B

Bait and switch is considered as a spam technique when used in SEO. It provides one page for a search engine or directory and a different page for other user agents at the same URL. Sometimes it creates an optimized page and submits to search engines or directory, but replaces with the regular page as soon as the optimized page has been indexed.

AllTheWeb | SEO Glossary A

�AllTheWeb� is a search engine owned by Yahoo and using its database.

Algorithm | SEO Glossary A

An algorithm is an operational programming rule that determine how a search engine indexes content and displays the results to its users.

Agent Name | SEO Glossary A

This is the name of the Crawler/spider that is currently visiting a page. Spider is a robot sent out by search engines to catalogue websites on the internet. When a spider indexes a particular website, this is known as 'being spidered'.

Absolute Link - SEO GLOSSARY

<a href="http://amitkumarlp.blogspot.in">Amitkumarlp.blogspot.in</a>

The above is an example of an Absolute Link.

It specifies a

- transfer protocol
- domain name
- and often a file name