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Web development terms, explained plainly

Short, practical definitions for WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce, SEO and site performance. Each term has its own page you can read or share.

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AI Citations An AI citation is a link or reference to a website inside an AI-generated answer. Citations depend on how clearly a page... Read definition
AI Overviews AI Overviews are summaries that Google generates at the top of some search results. They combine information from several web pages and... Read definition
AI SEO AI SEO is the practice of optimising a website so that both search engines and AI tools can find, understand and reference... Read definition
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Answer engine optimization is the practice of writing and structuring content so search engines and AI tools can use it as a... Read definition

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Domain Authority Domain authority is a third-party score that estimates how strong a website's backlink profile is. It is not a Google metric, so... Read definition

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Featured Snippet A featured snippet is a short answer that Google shows above the normal results for some questions. It is usually taken from... Read definition

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JSON-LD JSON-LD is a format for structured data written as a script block in a page. Google recommends it for schema markup because... Read definition

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Noindex Tag A noindex tag tells search engines not to show a page in search results. It is set in the page HTML or... Read definition

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Organic Traffic Organic traffic is the number of visitors who arrive at a website from unpaid search results. It is one of the main... Read definition

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