SEO Search Engine Optimization Topics.

The alternative text that is in the html of a web page attached to and describes a graphic.

Internet links from other web site pointing to your web page. Backlinks or inlinks are often times used to measure link popularity. Popularity is part of the page rank and SERP. The question is how do you get linked from other sites? If you know someone with a web site you can exchange links. Another way is getting your web site linked from resources like the phone book Yellow Pages, web pages where you advertise in paper publications, Craigslist, some times blogs, and other Internet sign post. IDOWEBS can be used as a sign post to create a site to link to your main site, giving it one more back-link into your resource. Backlinks from reputable sources give search engines the idea that you information is for real.

Google PageRank is a numeric value how important a page is on the web. It is Google's way of measuring the importance of web site.

Businesses that operate physical storefront locations off the Internet.

Caching is when a search engine takes a snapshot of a web page and stores it. The cache

A physical connection and geographical location where a computer connects to the Internet. See IP addresses.

Things like graphics, video, sound and most importantly the text/keywords that makes up a web page is referred to as the web page content.

IDOWEBS can provide insights to SEO web design topics. Live chat and email messaging is available.

Copywriting is the process of writing the words that promote a person, business, opinion, or idea. It may be used as plain text, as a radio or television advertisement, or in a variety of other media. ...

The process of prepping the language, images, sound for the public view through correction, condensation, organization, and keyword content additions and modifications.

A means of sharing content among many different sites on the Internet. At Idowebs.com PHP code or Irames are used. Make a news feed and or articles. Cut and paste the code on any pages you own or others would like your feeds on.

Alphabetical listing of terms in a field with a short explanation of the words meaning.

Google has a local business center where you can list your business and edit the listing. The business center listings show up when a SERP is made for a local business.

The Google Index is a loosely adapted form of a traditional index. The Google form of indexing is based on economic, popularity, rather then any concrete form of rationalized order in chaos.

IDOWEBS will created and maintain a site map for the web pages here. The sitemap is a simple file with the links for Google.bot, the Google search spider, to follow. The site map is parked in the main directory of your setup here. IDOWEBS also maintains a sitemap link in Google.com Web Master tools.

IDOWEBS provides Google.com site verification services. Your setup here will be listed in Google.com Web master tools setup and verified by Google hopefully expediting the indexing of your pages here.

Want to be popular? Learn to give good head. Web pages have hidden tags in what is called the head at the top of each page. There keyword, description, title tags and other tags are hidden from view. Give good head and search engines will like you more.

"An index is a detailed list, usually arranged alphabetically, of the specific information in a publication, whether a book, periodical, database or multimedia collection. It is designed to help the reader find information quickly and easily." From Wikipedia

Is the backbone of interconnected networks around the world. It is an accessible computer network that the World Wide Web runs on.

Each computer connected to the Internet has what is called an IP address, a string of numbers. This similar to a street address in more ways then one. The connection is located in a geographical location that affects the SERP, in many cases.

Internet Service Provider are businesses that give access to the Internet.

A significant word or phrase in the Title Bar of the web page , subject heading, header meta tag keywords, and the text content of the page. A flow of the keywords from the Title Bar in the hidden meta keywords and in the text of each and every page.

Meta Tags are html code hidden in the head, top of the web page, not seen by the users but used by the search engines. Meta tags supply information to search engines regarding a page and its content.

Description meta tag is just like it sounds. It describes what the page is about.

Keywords meta tag provide keywords for the search engines to index and figure the contents of the page.

Note: Each search engine uses or does not use meta tags in their own way.

Mole not the Internet Gopher not a Mexican food dish, but mammals, living creatures, spy who works for an enemy in a world of espionage.

Search results based on a search engines equation on what to return a user rather then just the paid advertisements.

Advertising and selling through the Internet. Some consider shopping carts, banner and other ads like PPC, pay per click advertising as the primary form of marketing. The real foundation of OM, online marketing is selling the SEO web design to the search engines. We are all marketing something whether is ourselves, ideas, service, products, organizations.

It ain't how much you know it is really more about who you know. In other words your site might have the answers to the meaning of life, or the cure for cancer, but if you don't have links to your site from other popular sites, your page rank will be low. Kind of like hight school be in the in crowd or hope people can find you via keyword search.

The number of links that are linked, back linked, from other web pages to a page.

A database query made at a search engine entering keywords in the text search input box and clicking the submit button.

A web site that users can search an online database.

It used to be search engines would return pages according to the keywords included in the search. They still do, sort of, sometimes. What search engines like Google really return are not exactly SERPs based on "X y or Z" but a combination of things including page rank. If you don't brown nose sites for links your site will probably never come up top search today. Used to be very easy to get top ranked search pages by keyword. Content is not what it used to be.

snake: limb less scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous from wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Search Engine Optimization. A way of using web site content to get the best possible SERP, search engine optimized results from the keywords and other content on the web pages.

On the Internet social networking is about linking and getting links to and from your pages online. Social Networking sites exist where you can create informational oriented links to your resources. Social networking is another way of saying backlinks.

Predatory arachnid computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database and then fed to SERPents.

The title tag is a meta tag hidden in the head of web pages. The title tag contains the name of the page. It is the name that is displayed at the top of the browser.

Universal Resource Locator which represents an Internet address. idowebs.com is both a domain name and URL.

Google verifies a site through verify id in their Web Masters tools. Backlinks in many ways provide some validation and verification that a site is what it says it is if listed in hand edit directories like the Yellow Pages and ODP, Open Directory Project.

Web Design or SEO Web Design is where the content and the popularity are created and manipulated in a manner so that the web site gets indexed, remains indexed and has decent SERP.

Person responsible for learning about web construction and maintenance issues to get and keep web pages and sites running online.

The main Web Master tools besides basic HTML web design construction and maintenance are keyword content in the head and body of the web page plus getting backlinks.