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SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible
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SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible

by Jerri L. Ledford
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
407 pages
11h 1m
English
Wiley
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Glossary

8 bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format

A variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is able to represent any character in the Unicode standard, yet the initial encoding of byte codes and character assignments for UTF8 is consistent with ASCII.

A/B Testing

A method of advertising testing by which a baseline control sample is compared to a variety of single-variable test samples.

Ad groups

A group of ads that target one set of keywords or sites.

Adversarial search

A search algorithm that looks for all possible solutions to a problem, much like finding all the possible solutions in a game.

Affiliate programs

A method of promoting web businesses in which an affiliate is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts.

alt attributes

HTML tags that provide text as an alternative to the graphics on a web page.

alt tags

See alt attributes.

Analytics

Measurement of web-site statistics such as the number of visitors, where they arrived from, and how much time they spent on a web site.

Anchor text

Text that is displayed as a link instead of the URL for the link being displayed.

Anonymous FTP

A file transfer protocol that allows a user to retrieve documents, files, programs, and other archived data from anywhere on the Internet without having to establish a user id and password. By using the special user id of "anonymous," the network user will bypass local security checks and will have access to publicly accessible files on the remote system. ...

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