Seo glossary letter B

Backlinks are links from other websites to a target website, we can say seomagnifier.com has 1300 backlinks for example. This means that seomagnifier.com has 1300 links on other sites pointing to seomagnifier.com. Sometimes backlinks mean the number of links a search engine counted for a site. We can say soemagnifier.com has 1300 backlinks in Google. This means that...

When a site that used to be included inside the search engine index is suddenly removed from this index they might have been banned. Most of the time a search engine ban is caused by stepping over the guidelines set the search engine in question. The usage of black hat seo techniques can be one of the reasons for this ban. But sometimes a site is accidentally ...

Blind traffic is traffic generated from bad or misleading marketing campaigns. You should try to avoid this blind traffic as it will only cost bandwidth and in the end money. Blind traffic very rarely converts to a sale. An example of blind traffic is a user that sees a link like , which points to a site selling snowboards online. This user will take one look...

The body is the textual representation of a web page. This includes all the visible text a user is able to see on a web page, the 'meaty' textual content. Search engines are very keen on very well written body or copy texts.Sometimes it is mistakenly said that the anchor texts of links do not count as body, which they do. A nice article about how to get a lot of...

A bot is an application that traverses the web in search for its goal, this goal can be anything from indexing web pages for a search engine to harvesting email addresses for spammers. There are many different kids of bots also know as spiders. Some are harmless or even very helpfull and some you just don't want on your site. Keeping away the harmless bots can be as...

Services offered by search engine optimisation firms. The offer to submit a bulk of urls to all the major search engines. See automated submission tools