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Meta Search Engine
A type of search engine . Meta search engines usually do not
maintain databases . Instead, they query other search engines'
databases and return results from all of them - usually with a
mention of the search engine next to the each result.
Meta Tag
An HTML tag placed in the head section of a web page. The tag
provides additional information that is not displayed on the
page itself. The initial idea was that webmasters should use
these tags to help search engines index the page correctly by
providing an accurate description of the page content and a
list of keywords associated with the page. Unfortunately this
left the door open to abuse. Many webmasters used these tags
to gain an unfair advantage, forcing search engines to begin
disregarding meta tags.
Mirror Sites
Referring to sites that offer authorized duplicates of content
also found on other sites. The initial motivation was to ease
bandwidth load and increase availability by distributing
popular files to many servers. In the context of SEO , the
term is mostly used to refer to sites that attempt to deceive
search engines into indexing more than one instance of a site
by duplicating it on another server and domain . Most search
engines now have filters in place to detect mirror sites and
many of them penalize these sites by de-listing both the
original site and the mirror site.
Manual Submission
The process of manually submitting a web page to a search
engine or directory as opposed to using submission software or
a submission service . Manual submission is considered by many
to be the only reliable form of submission , although some
programs and services have begun distinguishing themselves as
viable options.
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