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Technical SEO
Definitions for crawl, indexing, rendering, and technical architecture signals that affect search visibility.
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Canonical Tag
A canonical tag is an HTML signal that helps search engines understand which URL should represent a page when duplicates or near-duplicates exist.
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Crawl Budget
Crawl budget is the practical limit on how much and how often search engines crawl a website within a given period.
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Indexability
Indexability is a page's eligibility to be processed and stored in a search engine index so it can appear for relevant queries.
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Technical SEO
Canonical Tag
A canonical tag is an HTML signal that helps search engines understand which URL should represent a page when duplicates or near-duplicates exist.
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Crawl Budget
Crawl budget is the practical limit on how much and how often search engines crawl a website within a given period.
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Indexability
Indexability is a page's eligibility to be processed and stored in a search engine index so it can appear for relevant queries.
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Duplicate Content
Duplicate content is substantially similar or repeated content that exists on more than one URL, either within the same site or across different sites.
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Noindex
Noindex is an instruction, usually delivered through a meta robots tag or HTTP header, that tells search engines not to index a page.
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Redirect
A redirect is a server or browser instruction that automatically forwards a request from one URL to a different destination URL.
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Robots.txt
Robots.txt is a text file placed at a site's root that gives crawling instructions to search engine bots.
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XML Sitemap
An XML sitemap is a structured file that lists indexable URLs you want search engines to know about and revisit.
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Orphan Page
An orphan page is a URL with no meaningful internal links pointing to it from the rest of the site.