SEO abbreviations are the short form terms, words, phrase used in search engine optimization (SEO) industry. SEO acronyms are commonly used by the people working in this industry and also by the searchers. SEO acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms terms, definitions, slang terms and jargon may not be new for the people working in search marketing industry but it can be of good use for students, training or new entrants in search engine optimization industry. This list will give better understanding of various short terms used in SEO to new users.
We have compiled a complete list of acronyms abbreviations and initialisms used by search engine optimization ( SEO) experts, specialist and normal everyday users. We have used boldface for most commonly used terms. This is the place to find SEO abbreviations which you do not know what they mean. However this list still in Beta and in next version we will like to add link to appropriate definition of the term. If you find any new abbreviations please let us know at support@megrisoft.com
A
ALT Alternative Text Attribute
AMP Accelerated Mobile Pages
API Application Program Interface
AS Article Submission
B
B2B Business to Business
B2C Business to Consumer
BERT Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers
BTDT Gradient Boosted Decision Trees
C
CDN Content Delivery Network
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CLS Cumulative Layout Shift
CMS Content Management System
COA Cost of Acquisition
CPA Cost Per Acquisition
CPA Cost Per Action
CPC Cost Per Click
CPL Cost Per Lead
CPM Cost Per Thousands
CPO Cost Per Order
CPV Cost Per View
CRO Conversion Rate Optimization
CSE Comparison Shopping Engine/Custom Search Engine
CSS Cascading Style Sheets
CTA Call to Action
CTA Content Targeted Advertising
CTR Click Through Rate
CVN Card Verification Number
CWV Core Web Vitals
D
DASALC Data Augmented Self-Attentive Latent Cross
DC Data Center
DFO Data Feed Optimization
DKI Dynamic Keyword Insertion
DLP Directory Listings Page
DLR Deep Link Ratio
DMCA Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DMM Digital Media Marketing
DMOZ Directory – Mozilla
DNS Domain Name Server
DOM The Document Object Model
DR Domain Rating
DRPs Directory Results Pages
DS Directory Submission
DSRP Directory Search Results Page
E
EAT Expertise Authoritativeness Trustworthiness
E-A-T Expertise Authoritativeness Trustworthiness
ECPC Enhanced Cost Per Click
ECPC Enhanced CPC
EMD Exact Match Domain
F
FCP Frequently Cached Page
FCP First Contentful Paint
FFA Free For All Pages
FID First Input Delay
G
G+ Google Plus
GAM Generalized Additive Models
GAP Google Advertising Professional
GAS Guaranteed Article Submission
GDS Guaranteed Directory Submission
GEC Grammatical Error Correction
GIS Google Image Search
GIY Google It Yourself
GMB Google My Business
GP Guest Post
GBP Google Business Profile
GSC Google Search Console
GTM Google Tag Manager
GWT Google Webmaster Tools
GYM Google Yahoo MSN
GMP Google Marketing Platform
GOB Google Open Bidding
H
HCM Helpful Content Metric
HOO Helping Our Own
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
HCU Helpful Content Update
I
IBL In Bound Links
IDF Inverse Document Frequency
ILDs In Linking Domains
IM Internet Marketing
IoT Internet of Things
IP Internet Protocol
ISP Internet Service Providers
IYP Internet Yellow Pages
INP interactivity to next page
J
JGI Just Google It
JSON-LD JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data
K
KDA Keyword Density Analyzer
KEI Keyword Effectiveness Index
KPI Key Performance Indicator
KYD Know Your Data
L
LB Link Building
LCP Largest Contentful Paint
LPO Landing Page Optimization
LSA Latent Semantic Analysis
LSEO Local Search Engine Optimization
LSI Latent Semantic Indexing
LTR Learning To Rank
LIMoE Learning Multiple Modalities with One Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Model
M MCP Moderately Cached Page MFA Made For Advertising ML Machine Learning MLM Masked LM MTO Meta Tags Optimization MUM Multitask Unified Model N NAP Name Address Phone Number NE Niche Edit NLP Natural Language Processing NLPA Natural Language Processing Algorithms NSEO Negative SEO NSP Next Sentence Prediction O OBL OutBound Link ODP Open Directory Project ORM Online Reputation Management OSE Open Site Explorer OWBL One Way Back Link P P4P Paid For Placement PDF Portable Document Format PFI Pay For Inclusion PFL Paid For Listings PFP Pay for Performance PHP PHP Hypertext Preprocessor PLD Pay-Level Domains PMD Partial Match Domain PPC Pay Per Click PPP Pay Per Post PPR Pay Per Rank PPV Pay Per Visitor PR Page Rank Q QEC Quantum Repetition Codes R RD Referral Domain RI Regular Index ROI Return on Investment RSS Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary RTB Real Time Bidding RTL Regional Long Tail S Saas Software As A Service SB Social Bookmarking SE Search Engine SEM Search Engine Marketing SEMPO Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization SEO Search Engine Optimization SEOs Search Engine Optimization Performance SEOs Search Engine Optimizers SEP Search Engine Poisoning SEP Search Engine Positioning SER Search Engine Ranking SERM Search Engine Results Management SERP Search Engine Results Page SERPs Search Engine Results Pages SES Search Engine Strategies SEW Search Engine Watch SI Supplemental Index SMB Small and Medium Businesses SMEs Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises SMM Social Media Marketing SMO Social Media Optimization SMX Search Marketing Expo SNS Social Networking Service SRM Search Reputation Management SSI Server Side Includes SSL Secure Sockets Layer STW Search The Web SWL SiteWide Link T TBPR Toolbar PageRank TFR TensorFlow-Ranking TLA Text Link Ads TLP Top Level Page TR Trust Rank TSETSB The Search Engine That Spam Built TTFB Time To First Byte U UGC User Generated Content URL Uniform Resource Locator UX User Experience V VIPS Visual-block Page Segmentation VS Video Submission W W&I Write & Improve W3C World Wide Web Consortium WMW Webmaster World X XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language XML Extensible Markup Language Y Y! Yahoo! Y2K Year Two Thousand YMYL Your Money Or Your Life Pages Z