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SEO Terms: Q-R


Query: A query is a keyword or phrase used by an Internet user in a search engine.


Redirect: A redirect is an action that takes an Internet user to another page without his or her clicking on a link. This affects PageRank and is viewed negatively by search engines. Also there is a chance that the spider will not follow the redirect.


Referrer: A referrer is the web page that contains a link to your web page and results in delivering visitors to your website.


Relevance: Is the probability of a web page being useful to an Internet user making a keyword search on a search engine.


Render: The stylized HTML code and format that is finally shown on the user's screen is called render. For instance content within tags will be shown as bold.


Replica: A replica is a static HTML copy of a dynamic website or a set of web pages. It is also called 'mirror'.


Resubmitting: Resubmitting is the process of again submitting your web page address or addresses to a search engine. This is after you having submitted it earlier or been included in the search engine's index. Resubmitting increases their queue with duplicate submissions.


Rewrite: Rewrite refers to URL rewriting.


Robot: A robot is a search engine spider or computer that crawls websites in order to index content.


Robots.txt: This is the text file that is usually found in a website's root directory. It is linked in the HTML code.


Reciprocal linking: Reciprocal linking, as the name suggests, is when websites link to each other.


Real Simple Syndication (RSS): Real Simple Syndication is a meant for content sharing and usually contains headlines with descriptions with links to the actual publishing site of the story. RSS is in XML-based format. It is meant for collection of information from across the web.

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