SEO

SEO (countable and uncountable, plural SEOs)

1. (uncountable, Internet) Initialism of search engine optimization.

   Coordinate term: ASO

2. (countable, Internet) Initialism of search engine optimizer.

   Synonym: SEOer

   • 2023 November 1, Amanda Chicago Lewis, “The people who ruined the internet”, in The Verge‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-06-08:

     Several people that I spoke to made a similar point: the best SEOs are the ones that follow Google's rules, which essentially ask you to make amazing websites without even thinking about Google. You are not supposed to make any attempt to artificially boost a website's ranking; you are supposed to be designing websites for human readers, not for the algorithm. And many SEOs do exactly this kind of work: rewriting copy, making a site load more quickly, etc. But the existence of good SEOs does not negate the presence of scammers and idiots and people who get ahead by violating Google's terms of service, just as the mild-mannered teacher's pet in a classroom does not negate the obnoxious shouting of the kids that refuse to behave. A few loud kids can easily drown everyone else out.

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