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Acronyms in SEO

There are many acronyms in SEO that can confuse the average person. Here is a list of the main ones that come to mind:

BL - Backlink

CPC - Cost Per Click

CSE - Comparison Shopping Engine or Custom Search Engine (Google)

CSS - Cascading Style Sheet

DC - Data Center

DMOZ - Directory - Mozilla

HTML - HyperText Markup Language

IBL - Inbound Link

IDF - Inverse Document Frequency

LSA - Latent Semantic Analysis

LSI - Latent Semantic Indexing

MLX - Extensible Markup Language

MRI - Multiple Reverse Indexes

OBL - Outbound Link

ODP - Open Direcrory Project, See DMOZ

OWBL - One way back link

PPA - Pay Per Action

PPC - Pay Per Click

PR - PageRank

RSS - Simple Syndication

SE - Search Engine

SEM - Search Engine Marketing

SEO - Search Engine Optimisation (Optimization)

SERP - Search Engine Results Page

SI - Supplemental Index

SWL - SiteWide Link

TBPR - Toolbar PageRank

TR - Trust Rank

VIPS - Visual-block Page Segmentation

I will be writing an article on each of these SEO acronyms in the forth coming weeks so keep coming back to the site and keep up your learning curve. If you would like me to add any to this list please email me and ill add them for you.