Submitting your site to a search engine manually rather than using a submission tool or service. In an ideal world you will not need to submit your site to search engines at all, as they should be able to find and crawl your site by following links from other sites.
Glossary
Welcome to the glossary section of our site please feel free to search through here for any terms you want to learn more about.
Meme
Richard Dawkins originally coined the term ‘meme’ in his book the Selfish Gene to describe the viral nature of the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. As with natural selection some memes will spread successfully and eventually mutate, whereas some will fail to spread and therefore become extinct. This term has also been used to describe the spread of content from one person to another online.
Meta Description
This is a tag which should contain a sentence or two (NB no more than 155 characters) which describes the content on a given web page.
See Also: Meta Tag
Meta Keywords
This tag can be used to highlight keywords and phrases that the page is targeting. However as many people spammed these tags in an endeavour to influence ranking, search engines lend little weight to this tag.
See Also: Meta Tag
Meta Search
Search results which are aggregated from various search engines – an example of which is myriadsearch.com
Meta Tag
Many people group the following tags together and refer to them as meta tags - meta description, meta keywords, page title.
See Also: Meta Description, Meta Keywords, Page Title
Meta Tag Stuffing
The largely pointless practice of cramming tags full of keywords which are unrelated to a site’s content. Because of abuse of these tags in the past, most search engines give little or no weight to the contents of meta tags when determining rank.
Mirror
The shiny thing in the bathroom which you use to check your look prior to heading out. Not to be confused with Mirror Site…
See Also: Mirror Site
Mirror Site
A site which mirrors or duplicates the content of another site. This is a blackhat technique, however as search engines rarely index duplicate content now it rarely works, and you may face a penalty from the search engines if you are discovered employing this tactic.
See Also: Replica
Mod Rewrite
Mod Rewrite is a tool which allows you to return a different URL from the one that was requested. One of it’s uses is to convert dynamic URLs into static looking HTML URLs in order to make them more memorable to users. mod_rewrite is also used for SEO purposes as Search Engines are not keen on dynamic URLs and they generally take longer to index them. An example of mod rewrite: A user may ask for http://www.gravytrain.com/marketing/ppc/, but will really be given http://www.gravytrain.com/index.php?subject=marketing&service=ppc by the server. So the user will be viewing the content on the dynamic page http://www.gravytrain.com/index.php?subject=marketing&service=ppc, but the URL address in the browser will read http://www.gravytrain.com/marketing/ppc/
See Also: URL Rewrite
Mouseover
A mouseover is a GUI event that occurs when a user hovers their mouse over a particular area of the GUI. Mouseover events are commonly used in web browsers where the URL or hyperlink can be viewed in the status bar when users’ hover over the link on a webpage. Web designers can also create their own mouseover events using JavaScript and/or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) – An example of a common application of the mouseover event is a tooltip.
Mozilla Firefox
A web browser, developed by the Mozilla Foundation. See http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/
See Also: Firefox
MSN
Microsoft’s web portal which includes a search engine called Bing. See http://uk.msn.com/