- Ask - one of the top 4 search engines
- Google - the worlds Number 1 search engine
- Hit Count - the number of times a visitor has looked at your web site
- HTML - the language used to write the majority of web sites
- Internet - a large computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide
- Invisible - the format of the website in question cannot be read by spiders or Search Bots.
- Key words - the words entered by users when querying the internet through search engines
- Link - a way of moving between pages and sites on the internet
- MSN - one of the top 4 search engines
- Page - a screen of data (this Glossary is a page)
- Page Listing - the position of a page within the results of a search
- Page Ranking - the relative popularity of a page as defined by Google
- Reciprocal Link - when two sites have links to each other this is called reciprocal linking
- Search Bots - automated programs used by search engines to identify new web sites, links and pages
- Search Directory - a categorised collection of information about web sites. They contain data about web pages
- Search Engine - the main tool used to search for information on the internet. They contain data from web pages
- SEO - Search Engine Optimisation (see What is SEO? for further clarification)
- Spiders- automated programes used by search engines to identify new web sites, links and pages
- Tags - places within the HTML coding to hold keyword and site/page relevant information
- Web - the system of connected documents on the Internet, which often contain colour pictures, video and sound, and can be searched for information about a particular subject, the World Wide Web.
- Yahoo - one of the top 4 search engines
