seoClarity Glossary of Terms

seoClarity Glossary of Terms

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seoClarity Product features: Actions, Data, Filters, Metrics

Alert: Email notification on changes; user-customizable.
AnnotationsDenote changes, updates or anything note worthy to have them appear on charts. 
Associations: Stored relationships between keywords and URLs (e.g., preferred landing pages) used in URL Rank, cannibalization checks, and reporting.
At Risk Traffic: Potential traffic loss if issues persist (based on last week’s analytics), as seen in Actionable Insights.
Attribution Model: Rule(s) assigning conversion credit to touchpoints, as seen in analytics platforms
Average Search Volume (AKA ASV or MSV): 12 month rolling average of monthly searches, as seen in Google Ads Keyword Planner.
Avg CPC: Average cost per click from Google Ads Keyword Planner.
Blended Rank: Shows the true position of your webpage on a search results page (SERP) by counting all types of content that appear above your result, not just the traditional organic listings.
Bounce Rate: Percent of single-page sessions.
Bounces: Single-page sessions.
Chart Panels: Select/unselect metrics to change chart segments.
Citation Flow: Majestic influence score (1–100) based on link quantity.
Clicks: User clicks on a web listing, such as seen in Google Search Console.
Click-through Rate (AKA CTR): Clicks as a percentage of impressions, such as seen in Google Search Console.
Compared to Expected: Indicates if current CTR is above/below expectation.
Competitive Gaps: Find low-hanging opportunities or areas competitors beat you.
Competitor Backlinks: Number of backlinks competitors have.
Competitor Domains: Analyze competitor domains, keywords, inbound links.
Competitor Filters: Includes/excludes data using the saved universal competitor list or specified competitor domains.
Competitor Opportunity: Identify keywords competitors rank well for.
Content Changed: Indicates a competitor changed on-page content.
Content Expectation (by SIA): Predominant user intent and top content expectations surfaced for a topic/page.
Content ScoreThe content score is a percentage based on the content length and usage of keyword recommendations in title, meta and body content as seen in the score breakdown section of Content Fusion.
Content Types (AKA Page Types): URL-level classifications maintained via rules (path patterns, parameters, metadata) with optional manual overrides; used for segmentation and reporting.
Conversion: Visit resulting in a sale.
Core Web Vitals: Google user experience metrics (LCP, INP, CLS) focused on page speed.
Disassociate: Removes the stored keyword ↔ URL relationship.
Dissociate Universal Competitor Button: Removes a domain from the universal competitor list.
Domain Rank: A page within your site is ranking for a managed keyword.
Download All: Extract option for table downloads from a platform feature.
Engaged SessionsAn engaged session is a session that lasts longer than 10 seconds, has a key event, or has at least 2 pageviews, such as seen in Google Analytics.
Engagement Rate: Engagement rate is the number of engaged sessions divided by the total number of sessions, such as seen in Google Analytics.
Entrances: Site Analytics traffic metric, such as seen in analytics platforms.
Estimated Traffic: Estimated clicks = typical CTR at position × daily search volume. 
Events: Annotate changes (e.g., algo updates); flags on widgets.
Exits: Sessions ending on the page, such as seen in analytics platforms.
First Fold Opportunity: Highlights keywords with potential to reach first fold for web results.
Fold/First Fold Filter: Filter keywords/results appearing within the first screen fold.
Fold Visibility: Screen fold where a result appears.
Global Event: Event flag across multiple areas.
Goals: Site analytics goals viewable on dashboards (e.g., via Site Analytics widget).
Health (column): Shows HTTP status code for the URL, such as seen in Site Audits.
Highest Ranked URL: Your domain’s top URL for a keyword.
Impressions: Times your pages appeared in search results, such as seen in Google Search Console.
Indexed Pages: Number of site pages indexed by search engines.
Inlinks: Internal links pointing to a URL.
Internal Links: Links pointing to pages within the same site.
Keyword Clustering: Group keywords into topical clusters based on actual Google SERPs.
Keyword Difficulty: Proprietary difficulty score for ranking a keyword.
Keyword Tags: Provide a way to group managed keywords together for filtering and reporting.
Keyword + URL Pairs: The mapping of a keyword to its preferred or associated URL, used for rank tracking and reporting.
Keywords with Traffic: Keywords bringing traffic from analytics.
Links Acquired Manually: Count of partner URLs added to Link Clarity pointing to a URL.
Links Acquired Organically: Count of partner URLs found via Google Webmaster report to a target URL.
Managed Elements: Managed elements refers to any keyword, URL, or tag that has been added to the platform for tracking. 
Managed Keywords (AKA tracked keywords): Search queries that are actively managed in the platform for tracking, reporting, and alerts.
Managed Links: Managed backlinks from external websites that are crawled for backlink information.
Managed Pages (AKA Target URLs): Managed pages designated as the preferred/target landing pages for keyword associations and reporting.
Notes: Add dashboard widget for comments.
On Site: View on-page content for managed/competitor pages and backlink data.
Page Tags: Provide a way to group managed pages together for filtering and reporting.
Page Tag Filter: Includes/excludes data using saved Page Tags.
PageRank (PR): Link-based value (0–1) from Google’s algorithm.
PageSpeed: Performance score/diagnostics; top Google sites average ~80.78.
Partner Domains: Aggregated view of partner/backlink records by domain (domains associated to managed partner URLs added in Link Clarity).
Pixel Depth: Total pixels above a result; lower = higher on page.
Pixel Depth Filter: Filter by pixel depth to the first result (equals/greater/less/between).
Rank: Position of a URL for a keyword.
Rank Filter: Filter by True Rank, Web Rank, or Visual Rank with options for equals/greater/less/between.
Remove: Option to remove an element from a section.
Results: Count of results returned by a search engine for a query.
Search Intent (aka Keyword Types): Rule-driven keyword classifications (e.g., Brand vs. Non-Brand) assigned via pattern rules that evaluate keyword text; recalculated when rules change.
Search VisibilitySearch Visibility is the percentage of Estimated Traffic (keyword position CTR x Search Volume) divided by Traffic Potential (estimated traffic assuming all keywords ranked in position 1). 
SEO as % of Total (widget): Monthly organic contribution; filterable by metric and page tag.
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SERP Preview: The seoClarity SERP Preview provides a screenshot view of the search engine results page. 
Sessions: An interaction with your website or app, such as seen in Google Analytics. 
SIA (seoClarity Intelligent Assistant): AI that surfaces insights (e.g., content expectations).
Share of Market: Percent of total potential traffic captured.
Share of Visibility: Relative visibility percent using pixel depth, fold, and volume.
Share of Voice: Percent of first-position potential traffic captured.
Tasks: Assign items to yourself/team members.
Top Ranked Pages: View all URLs that rank for a keyword; find multi-keyword pages.
Topical Page Strength: Strength of a page on a topic (e.g., in Research Grid/Content Fusion).
Traffic Potential: Estimated traffic if a site ranked in position 1.
Traffic Value (AKA Acquisition Value)Traffic value is a metric that represents the estimated cost that would be needed to acquire that same amount of traffic from pay-per-click (PPC) advertising on Google.
True Demand: True Demand™ is a proprietary seoClarity metric based on clickstream data that helps estimate true search volume.
True Rank: Position including all organic universal results (images, videos, maps, etc.).
Trust Flow: Majestic trust score (1–100) based on link quality.
Unique Domains: Number of linking domains.
Universal Competitor: Saved list of competitor domains at the site/profile level used to pre-populate competitor views and filters.
URL Rank: Rank of the associated/preferred landing page.
URL Type: Listing classification (Web, Image, Video, etc.).
User Intent: The user’s purpose or desired outcome; grouped by the types: Informational, Local, Navigational, and Transactional.
Visibility: Pixels a result occupies on the SERP.
Visual Rank: Position reflecting everything above the listing (ads/features).
Web Rank: Position counting only standard web (blue-link) results.
Weighted Average Rank (Wtd. Avg Rank): Average rank weighted by search volume.
Widget: Standalone chart/graph/table added to dashboards.


SEO Concepts & Search Terminology
Algorithm (AKA Algo): Search engine system for selecting/ranking pages.
Alt Text: Alternative text for images.
AMP (AKA Accelerated Mobile Pages): Lightweight format for fast-loading pages.
Anchor Text: Clickable text of a link.
API: Interface enabling applications to communicate.
Backlink (AKA Partner URL): A URL on another domain linking to your page.
Canonicalization: Indicating the preferred URL among duplicates/similar pages.
CDN (AKA Content Distribution Network): Geo-distributed proxy network to improve performance/availability.
CMS (Content Management System): Software (e.g., WordPress) to manage content.
CSS (AKA Cascading Style Sheets): Stylesheet language for presentation of HTML.
DOM (AKA Document Object Model): API representing documents as a node tree.
Duplicate Content: Duplicate titles/meta/body content across pages.
Google Ads (AKA Google AdWords): Google’s PPC advertising platform.
Google Search Console (AKA GSC, Google Webmaster Tools): Google tool providing search performance data.
H1: Main page heading.
H2: Subsequent subheading of an H1, and so on with H3. 
HTML: Markup language for web pages/apps.
HTTP Status Code Examples:

  • 200 OK: URL is accessible.
  • 301 Moved Permanently: Permanent server-side redirect.
  • 302 Found: Temporary server-side redirect.
  • 304 Not Modified: Resource unchanged since last request (caching/crawl efficiency).
  • 307 Temporary Redirect: Temporary redirect preserving HTTP method.
  • 308 Permanent Redirect: Permanent redirect preserving HTTP method.
  • 403 Forbidden: Access to the URL is forbidden.
  • 404 Not Found: URL not found/not recognized.
  • 410 Gone: Resource permanently removed (often deindexed faster than 404).
  • 429 Too Many Requests: Client is rate-limited; use Retry-After.
  • 500 Internal Server Error: Generic server-side error.
  • 503 Service Unavailable: Temporary outage/maintenance; use Retry-After to preserve indexing.
  • 504 Gateway Timeout: Upstream server didn’t respond in time.
Image Sitemap: XML file listing site images.
Infographic: Visual representation of information/data.
JavaScript (AKA JS): Language for client-side interactivity.
Keyword Stuffing: Overuse of keywords to manipulate rankings.
Landing Page: Destination page of a link.
Link Building: Process of acquiring new backlinks.
Local Search: Queries with local intent or offline transaction goals.
Long Tail: Specific, narrow-intent keywords (typically 3+ words).
Meta Description: Short page summary used for SERP snippets.
No Follow: Tells engines not to follow/count links on the page.
No Index: Tells engines not to index the page.
On-page Content: Content/meta for a specific URL.
Organic Search: Natural (unpaid) search visibility in SERPs.
PPC (AKA Pay-Per-Click): A digital advertising model where you pay a fee each time someone clicks your ad.
Robots.txt: File controlling crawler access to site paths.
RSS Feed: Syndication format for updates.
SEM (AKA Search Engine Marketing): Increasing visibility via optimization and advertising.
SEO (AKA Search Engine Optimization): Improving visibility in organic search results.

  • Answer Box (AKA Featured Snippet): Highlighted answer result in SERPs.
  • People Also Ask (PAA): Expandable question/answer panels.
  • Image Pack/Carousel: Block of image results.
  • Video Carousel: Block of video results.
  • Local Pack: Map and local listings.
  • Popular Products/Shopping Results: Product result blocks on commercial queries.
  • Rich Snippets: Structured data-enhanced listings (e.g., ratings).

SERP (AKA Search Engine Results Page): The listings returned for a query from a search engine.
SGE (AKA Search Generative Experience): Google’s AI-generated SERP answer experience.
Sitemap: XML file listing site pages; may indicate preferred canonicals.
Title (AKA Meta Title): HTML title of a page.

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