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Optimization Glossary
| Anchor
pages |
Also
called anchor, crawler, jump, supplemental, doorway, pointer, entry,
bridge, hook, landing, attraction, envelope pages. I will repeat this
terms many times in this page, just for keyword density purposes. Hope you
don´t mind... |
| Brute
force optimization |
Our "brute force" approach to site optimization involves creating one smart gateway per keyword (or keyword phrase), covering all the keywords that are likely to be used by information seekers |
| Cloaking | A technique used by some site promoters which presents a SE-optimized website to the SE spider and a human-optimized website to the visitors. |
| Co-branding | Sharing one vehicle among two or more brands. The freeware version of GGG can be co-branded by a buyer, to include his brand, logo or promotional text in the generated gateway pages. |
| Content
boxes |
Spaces that have to be filled with text or HTML code. This text can be obtained from any document that relates to your keywords, and will make your gateway pages look unique, theme related and relevant to the SE. One box will be included in each gateway page, except in the case were synonym replacement is instructed |
| Content
pages |
Content-rich
pages designed to attract visitors and boost SE ranking. They are not
included in the disputed "gateway" definition. Sometimes the
limit between gateway and content pages is blurred. GGG can produce either
one. We recommend long pages, with 400 to 700 words, with unique text and
carefully planned and designed links. |
| Doorway
pages |
Another
word for Gateway pages. Also called anchor pages, doorway pages, pointer
pages, entry pages, hook pages, landing, bridge, crawler, jump or
supplemental pages. I will keep repeating this terms many times in
this page, just for keyword density purposes. |
| Entry
pages |
Also
called anchor pages, doorway pages, pointer pages... Oh well...you got the
point. |
| First
level gateways |
Pages
based on primary keywords. They all will link to the target site. A unique
feature of GGG. |
| FTP |
File
transfer protocol. The standard procedure for uploading pages to a server.
Some free host service providers use Web based methods. We recommend
getting CuteFTP or a similar product
to upload Gateway and Hallway pages. |
| Gateway
pages |
Pages
designed to rank high in SE, thru different, always changing, techniques. |
| GGG |
Our
Great Gateway Generator. A tool to produce large amounts of highly
customizable gateway pages. |
| Great |
Our
software is intended to improve Google visibility of websites. Greats are
eye protectors and not SE. However, we chose to wear a Great to protect
our eyes from Google´s lawyers spitting... |
| Hallway
pages |
Some
people use it as synonym for Doorways, but it is time to make some
differences. As eskimos have dozens of words for snow depending on its
subtle differences, and we subtropical people have just one, SE pros have
many words for entry pages. Hallway usually describes an index page which
links to the many gateway and content pages of our site. . |
| Information pages | Some SEO companies use this term instead of gateway pages, to point out that they do not cheat, and that they comply with the SE rules. Information pages are not abusive, not very abundant, not repetitive, and provide some useful information to the user. The limit between information and gateway pages is rather difficult to establish. Our software is the only one in its kind that can produce either type of page, with every in-between variety. |
| Keyword density | Proportion of keywords (either words or phrases) in a given text. Usually expressed as a percentage of keywords per total word count.. Different keywords are taken separately. GGG can automatically optimize pages for this property. |
| Keyword frequency | It is related to the above entry. It refers to the number of keywords in a certain unit: content box, page title, whole page. In a title, 2 or 3 keywords are optimal. In a page, it depends on the length. |
| Keyword prominence | Number of keywords in the first place within a unit (paragraph, page, title, content box). Some text-building features in GGG increase the keyword prominence, by inserting extra keywords in selected positions. |
| Link
Farms |
Site
intended to improve Google PageRank. Also called Link Popularity Programs,
"FFA or Free For All" and blind link exchange programs. Most SE
acted against these programs rating them 0 PageRank. Never give or
receive a link from a site with no PageRank. |
| Link
Popularity |
Several
SE give good rating to sites that have many incoming links. See also PageRank. |
| Metatags |
Text
fields in the head of the .HTM files, intended only to SE and invisible to
browsers. The main ones for SE optimization purposes are Title, Keywords
and Description. |
| Multiple
gateway domains |
Several
domains that host different gateway pages, all designed for maximal
exposure and PageRank of the target site. |
| Nested
keywords |
A
system that lets you enter primary level keywords, and secondary level
keywords associated to each one of the previous ones. |
| PageRank |
A
new feature from
Google that shows the quantity and quality of links pointing to a
certain site. Download the Google Toolbar to use it. |
| Random
gateways |
Pages
based on both primary and secondary keywords. They link to either the
target site or to the other gateways. They can be generated in high
numbers. Thus, they have several customizable features. A unique feature
of GGG. |
| Read-more pages | Extra pages that continue those 1st and 2nd level pages that are cut off by automatic optimizing features. |
| Redirecting
pages |
Gateway
pages that automatically redirect traffic to the target site. This can be
done in several ways (refresh metatag, Javascript, server side scripts).
Some of these methods can be labelled as spam by some SEs. The positive
thing is that users do not lose time trying to make sense out of a gateway
page, and no visitors are lost because of lack of clicking. GGG lets you
use Javascript redirection in some random gateway pages. We decided to
leave the decission of using redirection to the users. |
| SE
themes |
Search
engines now rank sites instead of pages. A theme, not a single keyword,
has to be prevalent in all the site to obtain a good ranking. |
| Search
Engine (SE) |
Although
it refers to all the sites on Internet that allow you to search for web
sites or files, 99% of the time we refer to Google.com. |
| Search Engine saturation | The number of pages a given search engine has in its index for your website domain. You can obtain this info here. It can reflect the number of indexed gateway pages. |
| Second
level gateways |
Pages
based on secundary keywords. They all will link to the target site. A
unique feature of GGG. |
| Shotgun theory of website promotion | We believe that a good promotion uses as many keywords as possible. GGG was designed to overcome the limitations of multi-keyword promotion: excess keywords in a single page, excess pages in a single directory, excess pages linking to a single target. Being keyword-selective is no longer necessary: increase your chances of being found with GGG. We wrote an article about this to help our marketing effort. |
| Soft
crosslinking |
A
combination of links between all the gateway pages in one or many domains
or subdomains that ensures no orphan pages and a moderate number of links
to the target site. This prevents SE from labeling them as abusive gateway
pages, but provides good PageRank and easy navigation to the target site. |
| Spamdexing |
Alteration
or creation of a document with purpose of deceiving an electronic
catalog/filing system. Technique that increases the potential position of
a website at the expense of the quality of the search engine's database.
Also called spamming / spoofing. |
| Target
site |
The
site that you want to promote. It is usually the same that hosts the
gateway pages, but advanced webmasters use several domains to avoid
penalties. |
| Themes | Modern SE look for global themes across multiple documents, or even across an entire domain. Theme sites are better positioned than sites where a page simply happens to have the keywords in it. Our software develops themes among gateway pages, making sure that keywords and subkeywords are balanced and present along the whole gateway page set. |
| Viral
Marketing |
A
system that propagates the word about a product or service with minimum
effort, using resources taken from the recipients of the message. As the
viruses do, the viral marketed idea or product grows exponentially, for as
long as it finds "food" or usable resources. Viral marketing is
usually accomplished by information products that are freely distributed,
carry the originators´ message and use the recipients resources. |