Practice SEO vocabulary with this exercise. The terms here reflect the language of search engine optimization — from keyword research and on-page SEO to link building and analytics.
📚 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. Search engines are supposed to display search results in order of __________________________ ( = the most important results first).
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2. A spider, also known as a robot or a __________________________, is a program that visits web sites and reads the content of their pages in order to create entries for a search engine index.
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3. You can __________________________ ( = prevent) spiders from indexing your page(s) by adding special instructions in a file called "robots.txt".
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4. Jim doesn't optimize his site because he doesn't care about its __________________________ ( = position) in search engines.
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5. Thanks to these changes, we've been able to __________________________ ( = move ahead/ improve our position considerably) in the competitive online market.
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6. If someone tells you that your website needs an __________________________, it means that your website needs some major changes.
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7. One often hears that "content is __________________________." This means that a website's content is the main factor in how high (or low) it is ranked on search engines.
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8. Many people try to optimize their sites using various tricks, but the best way to __________________________ a high ranking is by constantly adding good content.
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9. Keyword __________________________ refers to how many times a keyword appears within a certain page.
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10. If a keyword appears too many times on a given page, a search engine might __________________________ you ( = lower your ranking) for "keyword spamming."
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