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Beginner SEO Glossary
— 125 terms across 13 categories

Beginner SEO and AEO terms — the foundation every marketer or founder should understand before building a search strategy. Concepts here don't assume any prior SEO context.

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Analytics

10 terms
Bounce Rate
Conversion Rate
Direct Traffic
GA4 Content
GA4 New Users
GA4 Purchase Revenue
GA4 Term
Organic Traffic
Referral Traffic
Traffic Sources

Content SEO

2 terms
Pillar Page
about Property

E-commerce SEO

5 terms
Back-in-Stock Alerts
Free Product Listings
Product: Availability InStock
Product: Sale Price
SKU

Local SEO

5 terms
Appointment URL
Google My Business
Map Listings
Opening Hours Accuracy
Service Areas

Metrics

1 terms
Conversion Rate (CVR)

Mobile SEO

1 terms
Add to Home Screen

On-Page SEO

16 terms
Alt Attribute
Alt Tag
Alt Text
Favicon
H1 Tag
H2 Tag
H3 Tag
Header Tags
Image Alt Text
Image Compression
Image File Names
Meta Description
On-Page SEO
Skip to Content
Table of Contents
Title Tag

SEO Basics

23 terms
Black-Hat SEO
Bot
Crawl
Crawler
E-A-T
Google Quality Rater Guidelines
Gray-Hat SEO
HTTP
HTTPS
Helpful Content (Google's Framework)
Indexation
Paid Traffic
SEM (Search Engine Marketing)
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
SEO ROI
SEO Roadmap
SEO Strategy
Search Query
Search Volume
Short-Tail Keywords
User Intent
White Hat SEO
YMYL (Your Money or Your Life)

SEO Tools

36 terms
AccuRanker
Ahrefs
AlsoAsked
AnswerThePublic
Clearscope
Fathom Analytics
Frase
GTmetrix
Google Trends
Hotjar
HubSpot AI Search Grader
KeywordTool.io
Knowatoa
Lighthouse
Majestic
MarketMuse
Microsoft Clarity
Mobile-Friendly Test
Moz Pro
NeuronWriter
Nightwatch
Otterly.ai
Peec.ai
Plausible Analytics
PostHog
Profound
SE Ranking
SEO Tools
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Search Console
Semrush
Sitebulb
Surfer SEO
Ubersuggest
WebPageTest
Wincher

SERP Features

8 terms
Blue Links
Image Thumbnails
Organic Results
Paid Results
Refine This Search
Related Searches
Search Engine Results Page
Top Stories

Search Engines

8 terms
Bing
Bing Webmaster Tools
Ecosia
Google
Google Play Listing
Search Engine
Yahoo
Yandex Webmaster

Technical SEO

9 terms
404 Error
Breadcrumbs
Canonical Tag
Crawling
HTML Sitemap
HTTP 418 I'm a teapot
Robots.txt
SSL Certificate
Sitemap.xml

Video SEO

1 terms
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