| vertical search engine | Vertical search engines are specialized search engines meant for people interested in a particular area, such as, Amazon for shopping, YouTube for Video and Google Scholar for scholarly papers. |
| vlog | A vlog is just like a blog but with videos instead of articles. The most popular vlogging platform is YouTube. |
| time tunnel | Noun phrase. In Web analytics, a time tunnel is a users attempt to recreate a search path leading to a nearly-forgotten but recognizable destination. Searchers may use time tunnels in both general Web search and site search. Ecommerce Websites with large inventories of similar products are more likely to experience time tunnels than other types of Websites. Large news and information archives (including blogs with hundreds or thousands of posts) may also experience time tunnels. Cf. Hidden door, Time portal. |
| link baiting | Noun phrase. The practice of creating attention-grabbing headlines and seeding links to articles on social media sites for the purpose of generating thousands of links on blogs, forums, and other sites in a very brief period of time. It is assumed that the content is link-worthy, but this is a subjective point. |
| crawl depth | The crawl depth is the extent to which a crawler indexes the pages on a website. When a crawler accesses you website, it keeps digging through the links. A page can have subpages and those subpages have subpages of their own and so on. Its similar to how folders and subfolders work on your storage. |
