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 __________________________. (meaning: the most important results first)
Correct answer: relevance.
2. A spider, also known as a robot or a ____________________, is a program that visits websites and reads their pages to create entries for a search engine index.
Correct answer: crawler.
3. You can __________________________ (meaning: prevent) spiders from indexing your page(s) by adding special instructions in a file called "robots.txt".
Correct answer: block.
4. Jim doesn't optimize his site because he doesn't care about its __________________________ (meaning: position) in search engine results pages.
Correct answer: standing.
5. Thanks to these changes, we've been able to __________________________ (meaning: move ahead/ improve one's position considerably) in the competitive online market.
Correct answer: forge ahead.
6. If someone tells you that your website needs an ____________________, it means that the website needs major changes.
Correct answer: overhaul.
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.
Correct answer: king.
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.
Correct answer: ensure.
9. Keyword __________________________ refers to how many times a keyword appears within a certain page.
Correct answer: density.
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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