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SEO

Meaning in web development, with examples

/ˌes iː ˈoʊ/abbreviationCore term

In web development, SEO means: Search Engine Optimization: work that helps a site's pages to be found, understood and shown higher in search engines such as Google.

In Turkish: arama motoru optimizasyonu, SEO

How it is used

Said letter by letter. For developers, technical SEO means clean URLs, fast pages, correct HTML, meta tags, sitemaps and pages that crawlers can render. Marketing teams usually own content and keywords.

Example sentences

  1. The new site looks great, but we lost traffic because nobody checked the SEO.

  2. Server-side rendering helped our SEO, since search bots now get the full HTML.

Common collocations

  • technical SEO
  • SEO-friendly URLs
  • improve SEO
  • SEO audit
  • meta tagAn HTML tag in the head of a page that gives browsers and search engines information about the page, such as its description or viewport settings.
  • sitemapA file, usually sitemap.xml, that lists the pages of a website so that search engines can find and crawl them more easily.
  • crawlFor a search engine bot to visit pages automatically, follow their links and download their content so that they can be indexed.
  • indexFor a search engine to store and organize a page after crawling it, so that the page can appear in search results.

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