Keyword Phrase google adsense webmaster forums
A phrase which forms (part of) a search engine query.
Keyword Purchasing
The buying of search keywords from search engines, usually to control banner ad. placement. All the major search engines (except EuroSeek and GoTo) insist that keyword purchasing is only used for banner ad. placement, and doesn’t influence search results. The display of banner ads. for bought keywords can be studied using a service called Bannerstake from Thomson and Thomson at http://www.namestake.com. which returns the banner ads. displayed when particular queries are used.
Keyword Stuffing
The repeating of keywords and keyword phrases in META tags or elsewhere.
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Log File
A file maintained on a server in which details of all file accesses are stored. Analysing log files can be a powerful way to find out about a web site’s visitors, where they come from and which queries are used to access a site.Various software packages are available to analyse log files, and some are listed below.
Sane Solutions provide NetTracker, which is good at analysing queries from log files. A free program called WebLog is available at http://www.awsd.com. See also the reviews at http://www.bellacoola.com/html/sample_reports.htm.
LookSmart
A medium-sized directory. The URL is http://www.looksmart.com.
Lycos
One of the largest search engines, Lycos appears to be moving towards becoming a directory and is using the Open Directory for some search results. It can be slow to index new sites. The lycos spider ignores meta tags in pages. Lycos can be found at http://www.lycos.com.
Metacrawler
A meta search engine found at http://www.metacrawler.com. Results from various search engines are summarised in an easy to read form.
Metafind
A meta search engine found at http://www.metafind.com.
Meta Search
A search of searches. A query is submitted to more than one search engine or directory, and results are reported from all the engines, possibly after removal of duplicates and sorting. Also the meta search engine of the same name, found at http://www.metasearch.com.
Meta Search Engine
A server which passes queries on to many search engines and/or directories and then summarises all the results. Ask Jeeves, Dogpile, Infind, Metacrawler, Metafind and Metasearch are examples of meta search engines.
Meta tag
A construct placed in the HTML header of a web page, providing information which is not visible to browsers. The most common meta tags (and those most relevant to search engines) are KEYWORDS and DESCRIPTION.
The KEYWORDS tag allows the author to emphasise the importance of certain words and phrases used within the page. Some search engines will respond to this information - others will ignore it. Don’t use quotes around the keywords or keyphrases.
The DESCRIPTION tag allows the author to control the text of the summary displayed when the page appears in the results of a search. Again, some search engines will ignore this information.
The HTTP-EQUIV meta tag is used to issue HTTP commands, and is frequently used with the REFRESH tag to refresh page content after a given number of seconds. Gateway pages sometimes use this technique to force browsers to a different page or site. Most search engines are wise to this, and will index the final page and/or reduce the ranking. Infoseek has a strong policy against this technique, and they might penalize your site, or even ban it.
Other common meta tags are GENERATOR (usually advertising the software used to generate the page) and AUTHOR (used to credit the author of the page, and often containing e-mail address, homepage URL and other information).
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