Page 15 - Computer Terms

What Is A Web Farm?

Difficulty: Medium

A web farm, also known as a web server farm, is a website that uses more than one server to handle requests to improve response time, reliability, and performance.

What Is Web Forwarding?

Difficulty: Medium

Web forwarding, also known as domain forwarding, is a feature provided by a web host or domain registrar that allows the owner to automatically forward a domain name to another URL.

What Are Web Safe Colours?

Difficulty: Advanced

Web safe colours, also known as browser safe colours, are 216 colours that will not be dithered (altered) when shown on a computer monitor only capable of displaying an 8-bit colour.

What Is A Mirror Site?

Difficulty: Medium

A mirror site, also known as a mirrored site, is an identical copy of another website located under a different URL.

What Is An Outbound Link?

Difficulty: Easy

An outbound link is a type of external link that goes out from one website to another and takes visitors away from the website they are currently visiting to the other website.

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Difficulty: Medium

Affiliate marketing is a marketing agreement where a publisher promotes a business's product or service on their website and if someone clicks through the link...

What Is CPE?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for cost per engagement. CPE represents the amount of money that an advertiser has to pay to a publisher each time a viewer actively engages with an ad.

What Is CPD?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for cost per day. CPD is a fixed cost method of charging advertisers which represents the amount of money an advertiser will be charged for publishing an ad for a day on a website.

What Is The HTML Br Tag?

Difficulty: Medium

The HTML <br> tag is used to create a line break in a HTML document. It is useful when separate lines are required for text, such as when writing addresses, song lyrics, or poems.

What Is Web Advertising?

Difficulty: Easy

Web advertising, also known as online advertising, or internet advertising, is the process of promoting goods and services on the World Wide Web.

What Is 10x Content?

Difficulty: Medium

10x content describes content that is 10 times better than the highest ranking result that can be found in the search results page for a specific keyword.

What Is Crawl Budget?

Difficulty: Medium

Crawl budget is how fast a search engine bot can crawl a website and the maximum number of pages it can crawl in a given period of time.

What Is The Data-Nosnippet Attribute?

Difficulty: Medium

The data-nosnippet attribute is a HTML attribute used to instruct Google to not use certain textual parts of a HTML page as a featured snippet and a description under the search engine listing.

What Is The Nosnippet Tag?

Difficulty: Medium

The nosnippet tag is a meta tag used to instruct search engine bots to not show a snippet (description) under the search engine listing.

What Is Hotlinking?

Difficulty: Medium

Hotlinking, also known as inline linking, is the process of linking to and displaying a resource, such as an image or video, hosted on an external server instead of the website owner downloading it and uploading it to their own server.

What Is A Deep Link?

Difficulty: Medium

A deep link is a hyperlink pointing to a specific page on a website (e.g. https://example.com/directory/article-1.html' rather than the homepage of a website (e.g. 'https://example.com').

What Is The HTML Strong Tag?

Difficulty: Medium

The HTML strong tag is used to define text with strong importance or urgency and improve readability.

What Is The HTML Body Tag?

Difficulty: Medium

The HTML body tag is used to define the body of a HTML document. All the contents of a HTML document, such as the paragraphs, headings, images, tables, videos, lists, and hyperlinks are placed...

What Is Evergreen Content?

Difficulty: Medium

Evergreen content always stays relevant, shareable, and fresh for readers, regardless of the time of year, and is not affected by trends, news, a date, or an event.

What Is A Ranking Factor?

Difficulty: Medium

A ranking factor is a factor that influences the position of pages in SERPs. When indexing pages, search engines use lots of complex algorithms to evaluate pages and determine the order they are listed.

What Is Semantic Markup?

Difficulty: Medium

Semantic markup, also known as semantic HTML is the use of HTML markup to effectively describe the meaning and purpose of page elements.

What Are Core Web Vitals?

Difficulty: Medium

Core web vitals are metrics used by Google to measure the overall user experience of a webpage. Core web vitals measures three main things, which are the page loading speed, layout shifts, and visual stability.

What Is The HTML Noscript Tag?

Difficulty: Medium

In HTML, the noscript tag defines alternative content to be displayed if scripting is disabled or not supported in the user's web browser.

What Is The HTML Head Tag?

Difficulty: Medium

The HTML head tag is a metadata container in a HTML document placed between the <html> and <body> tag.

What Is A HTML Validator?

Difficulty: Medium

A HTML validator is an application used to check that the HTML markup is valid, free of syntax errors and deprecated elements, and follows the standards of the W3C.

What Is The Noarchive Tag?

Difficulty: Medium

The noarchive tag is a meta tag used to instruct search engine bots to not cache a specific page. It is located in the head of the HTML document.

What Are Keywords?

Difficulty: Easy

In SEO, keywords are words or phrases that describe the content of webpages to search engines.

What Is Keyword Density?

Difficulty: Medium

Keyword density, also known as keyphrase density, is the percentage of words that match a specific keyword on a page.

What Is Cornea Gumbo?

Difficulty: Medium

Cornea gumbo describes a webpage that is overly flashy, overwhelming, or overstuffed for users.

What Is A UTM Tracking Tag?

Difficulty: Medium

A UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) tracking tag, also known as a UTM parameter, or UTM code, is a unique identifier added to the end of a URL used to track where website traffic comes from if a user clicks on the link.