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# Important SEO Terms to Know

1. [Algorithm](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/algorithm-seo/README.md): A set of rules or instructions used by a search engine to rank webpages.
2. [Anchor Text](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/anchor-text/README.md): The clickable text in a hyperlink.
3. [Backlink](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/backlink/README.md): A link from one webpage to another webpage.
4. [<mark style="color:blue;">Canonical Tag</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/canonical-tag/README.md): An HTML tag that helps webmasters tell search engines which version of a URL to index.
5. [<mark style="color:blue;">Cloaking</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/cloaking/README.md): A black hat SEO technique of presenting different content to search engines than to visitors.
6. [<mark style="color:blue;">Crawl</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/crawl/README.md): When a search engine’s spider/bot visits a website.
7. [<mark style="color:blue;">Crawl Budget</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/crawl-budget/README.md): The number of pages that a search engine spider/bot can crawl on a website.
8. [<mark style="color:blue;">Crawl Depth</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/crawl-depth/README.md): The number of levels a search engine spider/bot will crawl down a website’s hierarchy.
9. [<mark style="color:blue;">Crawl Rate</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/crawl-rate/README.md): The speed at which a search engine spider/bot visits and indexes webpages.
10. [<mark style="color:blue;">Doorway Page</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/doorway-page/README.md): A page created solely for search engine spiders/bots to get indexed.
11. [<mark style="color:blue;">Dynamic URLs</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/dynamic-urls/README.md): URLs that contain characters such as “?” and “&”.
12. [<mark style="color:blue;">Googlebot</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/googlebot/README.md): The name of Google’s search engine spider/bot.
13. [<mark style="color:blue;">Google Dance</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/google-dance/README.md): A name given to the period where Google updates its rankings.
14. [<mark style="color:blue;">Header Tags</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/header-tags/README.md): HTML tags that are used to structure a webpage’s content.
15. [<mark style="color:blue;">Image Alt Tags</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/image-alt-tags/README.md): HTML tags that describe an image for search engine spiders/bots.
16. [<mark style="color:blue;">Index</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/index/README.md): The database of all websites that a search engine has stored.
17. [<mark style="color:blue;">Keyword Density</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/keyword-density/README.md): The number of times a keyword appears on a webpage.
18. [<mark style="color:blue;">Keyword Research</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/keyword-research/README.md): The process of finding keywords to target with SEO.
19. [<mark style="color:blue;">Keyword Stuffing</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/keyword-stuffing/README.md): A black hat SEO technique of overusing keywords on a webpage.
20. [<mark style="color:blue;">Link Building</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/link-building/README.md): The process of obtaining links from other websites.
21. [<mark style="color:blue;">Link Popularity</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/link-popularity/README.md): The number of other websites that link to a webpage.
22. [<mark style="color:blue;">Meta Description</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/meta-description/README.md): A HTML tag that summarizes the content of a webpage.
23. [<mark style="color:blue;">Meta Keywords</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/meta-keywords/README.md): A HTML tag that lists the relevant keywords of a webpage.
24. [<mark style="color:blue;">Meta Robots Tag</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/meta-robots-tag/README.md): A HTML tag that tells search engine spiders/bots which pages to index.
25. [<mark style="color:blue;">Organic Search Results</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/organic-search-results/README.md): Results that appear in search engine results pages that are not ads.
26. [<mark style="color:blue;">PageRank</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/pagerank/README.md): A metric used by Google to measure the importance of a webpage.
27. [<mark style="color:blue;">Paid Search Results</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/paid-search-results/README.md): Results that appear in search engine results pages that are ads.
28. [<mark style="color:blue;">Penguin</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/penguin/README.md): A Google algorithm update that targets websites with unnatural links.
29. [<mark style="color:blue;">Quality Score</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/quality-score/README.md): A metric that measures how relevant a keyword is to its target page.
30. [<mark style="color:blue;">Ranking</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/ranking/README.md): The order of results in a search engine results page.
31. [<mark style="color:blue;">Robots.txt</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/robots.txt): A file located in the root directory of a website that tells search engine spiders/bots which pages to index.
32. [<mark style="color:blue;">Sandbox</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/sandbox/README.md): A period where new websites do not appear in search engine results pages.
33. [Search Engine Friendly](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/search-engine-friendly/README.md): A webpage that is optimized for search engine spiders/bots.
34. [<mark style="color:blue;">Search Engine Results Page (SERP)</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/search-engine-results-page-serp/README.md): The page that is displayed when a search query is entered.
35. [<mark style="color:blue;">Search Intent</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/search-intent/README.md): A user’s goal when searching on a search engine.
36. [<mark style="color:blue;">Search Query</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/search-query/README.md): The words or phrases entered into a search engine.
37. [<mark style="color:blue;">Site Map</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/site-map/README.md): A list of all the webpages on a website.
38. [<mark style="color:blue;">Structured Data</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/structured-data/README.md): Data that is marked up with HTML tags to make it easier for search engine spiders/bots to understand.
39. [<mark style="color:blue;">Snippet</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/snippet/README.md): The description of a webpage that appears in the search engine results page.
40. [<mark style="color:blue;">Social Signals</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/social-signals/README.md): Signals from popular social media websites that are used to rank webpages.
41. [<mark style="color:blue;">Spider</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/spider/README.md): A software program used by search engines to index webpages.
42. [<mark style="color:blue;">Spam</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/spam/README.md): A black hat SEO technique of using techniques to manipulate search engine results.
43. [<mark style="color:blue;">Title Tag</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/title-tag/README.md): A HTML tag that contains the title of a webpage.
44. [<mark style="color:blue;">Trust Rank</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/trust-rank/README.md): A metric used by a search engine to determine a website’s quality.
45. [<mark style="color:blue;">Universal Search Results</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/universal-search-results/README.md): Results from multiple sources that are displayed in search engine results pages.
46. [<mark style="color:blue;">URL</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/url/README.md): The address of a web page.
47. [<mark style="color:blue;">User Experience (UX)</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/user-experience-ux/README.md): The overall experience of a user when interacting with a website.
48. [<mark style="color:blue;">Webmaster</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/webmaster/README.md): A person responsible for managing a website.
49. [<mark style="color:blue;">White Hat SEO</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/white-hat-seo/README.md): SEO techniques that follow search engine guidelines.
50. [<mark style="color:blue;">XML Sitemap</mark>](https://github.com/sageseo/sage-docs-help/blob/main/seo-terminology/seo-glossary/xml-sitemap/README.md): A file that lists all the webpages on a website for search engine spiders/bots.