Glossary

Youtube

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:49:36 +0000

A website where users can upload, view and share their video clips. http://www.youtube.com

Yahoo! Directory

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:44:02 +0000

The Yahoo Directory was originally utilised for search until they switched to crawler-based listings for their results in 2002. It is widely acknowledged that search engine algorithms do place value on the Yahoo! Directory. See https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/submit/intro

See Also: Directory, DMOZ, Link Building

XML

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:33:59 +0000

Stands for Extensible mark up Language. Recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium, XML started as a subset of SGML (standard generalised mark-up language). It is used to facilitate the sharing of data via different information systems, particularly online.

Wordtracker

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Wordtracker is a keyword generating tool. It utilises search terms collected from Dogpile and Metacrawler. See http://www.wordtracker.com

WordPress

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:13:33 +0000

WordPress is a free open-source publishing system for content which is frequently updated e.g. blogs. See http://wordpress.org

See Also: Blog

Wikipedia

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:11:37 +0000

A free, multilingual, open content encyclopaedia project operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a blend of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopaedia. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wiki

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A technology for creating collaborative websites.

Whois

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A TCP based query used to determine the owner of a domain name.

White Hat SEO

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:08:19 +0000

The opposite of Black Hat SEO – often called ethical SEO, this type of optimisation follows the guidelines from the search engines themselves and typically focuses on creating quality content which will assist the site in ranking for key terms.

See Also: Black Hat SEO, Ethical SEO

Weblog

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:07:39 +0000

A weblog is (normally) regularly updated and allows it’s readers to interact with the blogger by leaving comments which will normally elicit a response from the writer. Readers can also elect to sign up to RSS feeds. Good blogs will attract links from their readers who find their content relevant / interesting, and / or readers may submit articles of interest to other social media sites such as Digg.

See Also: Blog