Understanding SEO Terms Used to Describe Methods and Strategies that will help your site rank better in the search engine listings.

One of the most confusing aspects of marketing your local business online is trying to understand the various internet marketing terms. Here are some SEO terms and their definition to help shed some light. SEO – this stands for Search Engine Optimization and is a general term used to describe methods and strategies that will help your site rank better in the search engine listings. On-page SEO - these are methods and strategies a site owner uses internally on their own site to help their site rank better. Of- page SEO - this covers methods and strategies a site owner uses externally on other people's websites and blogs to help his website rank better. Backlinking - this off-page SEO method involves creating links on other people's websites that point to your website. These links are called back links. No follow links - these are backlinks that do not carry the “power/authority” of the page rank of the site they are located on. Do follow links - these are backlinks that have the page rank of the site they are located on flowing through them to the backlinked site. White-hat SEO – these are ethical SEO tactics used by a site owner to promote his site, that are looked upon favorably by search engines. Black-hat SEO - these are unethical SEO tactics used by a site owner to promote his site, these tactics are not desirable and may result in getting banned by search engines. Backlink Profile – this refers to the mixture of the different types of backlinks a webmaster uses. Backlink Value- this is a calculation of the power of the backlinks a site owner has built. It equals the number of backlinks built, multiplied by the strength of each backlink (based on the page rank of the site where the backlink is built) Anchor Text - this is the clickable part of text within an article or other piece of content which when clicked will direct the user to another page or site. Page Rank – this is a search engine's measure of a webpage's authority on a scale of 0 to 10.