| crawl spam | Noun phrase. High volume traffic that provides no value to the Website. Common sources of crawl spam include browsers set to prefetch large numbers of documents, email scraper programs, illegal crawlers used to scrape Websites for content, social media monitoring crawlers, and search engines that send little to no traffic to the sites being crawled. SEO practitioners doing link research drive a significant portion of Crawl Spam. Crawl Spam cannot be controlled through robots directives; this is rogue crawling traffic. |
| search engine | An information retrieval program that searches for items in a database that match the request input by the user. Examples: Google, Bing, and Yahoo. |
| made for adsense | Websites created for the sole purpose of making money with Googles Adsense program are termed as Made for Adsense or MFA. |
| banned | To be banned from a Search Engines index is when a page is removed from the Search Engines index. This happens when a site violates or flouts their guidelines and rules. No notification is given when this happens. In some situations, a ban is fixable. |
| density | How many times a keyword/phrase appears in the content of a webpage. While there is no ideal percentage to help with rankings, its said to keep it between 2-3%. |
