Build your SEO English vocabulary with this exercise. Understanding these terms will help you follow SEO discussions, read analytics reports, and communicate with digital marketing teams.
📚 Key vocabulary keyword density — the percentage of times a target keyword appears in a piece of content relative to total word count backlink — a link from one website to another, used as a signal of authority and credibility by search engines crawlability — the ease with which search engine bots can access and index the pages of a website domain authority — a score predicting how likely a website is to rank in search engine results pages long-tail keyword — a specific, multi-word search phrase with lower volume but higher conversion potential meta description — a brief summary of a page's content that appears in search results below the title canonical tag — an HTML element telling search engines which version of a page is the authoritative one page speed — the time it takes for a web page to load completely, a factor in both user experience and search rankings structured data — code added to a page to help search engines understand the content and display rich results anchor text — the visible, clickable text in a hyperlink that gives context about the linked page
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Choose the correct response to complete each sentence.
1. "Sponsored" links are links that are ______________________ by a company to promote themselves or their products/services.
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2. Most SEO companies prefer to focus on search results that show up naturally (not as paid advertisements), in other words "organic search results" or "organic __________________________".
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3. Click fraud can be a real __________________________ ( = can be dangerous) for your business.
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4. High quality content is an __________________________ ( = vital/ very important) part of search engine optimization.
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5. When you __________________________ your content, make sure you emphasize specific key phrases for search engines.
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6. To increase content relevancy = To __________________________ content relevancy
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7. The person who is responsible for writing content is called a __________________________.
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8. Rearranging you link __________________________ ( = structure), can improve your search engine ranking.
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9. We have a __________________________ ( = established beyond doubt) formula for optimizing websites.
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10. To improve your chances of getting a higher rating = To __________________________ your chances of getting a higher rating
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