SEO PUZZLE QUESTIONS ANSWERS

RECIPROCAL

Across, 10 letters.

A link is _____________ when two sites link to each other; a type of backlink that should be avoided.

PAGERANK

Down, 8 letters.

The way Google estimates a site's popularity. Can be from 1 to 10.

ADWORDS

Down, 7 letters.

An advertising program by Google.

DMOZ

Across, 4 letters.

The largest human-edited search directory.

FLASH

Down, 5 letters.

A technology for making Web movies; used mostly for banners.

DEADLINK

Across, 8 letters.

A link that leads to nowhere.

WEBCONFS

Across, 8 letters.

One of the most popular SEO sites, which provides many SEO tools, articles and a discussion forum for SEO professionals.

MSN

Across, 3 letters.

The search engine owned by Microsoft.

ANCHOR

Down, 6 letters.

The actual text of a link; the words that are hyperlinked to another site/file/bookmark.

CSS

Across, 3 letters.

The document which controls the visual appearance of a site.

GOOGLEBOT

Across, 9 letters.

One of the most famous search engine bots.

METATAG

Down, 7 letters.

Once this was the most important item for search engines.

ORPHAN

Down, 6 letters.

A page that has no inbound (and very often no outbound) links.

LINKFARM

Down, 8 letters.

An in ethical SEO practice that includes creation of a group of highly interlinked sites aimed at inflating link popularity.

KEYPHRASE

Across, 9 letters.

A group of keywords.

ROBOTSTXT

Across, 9 letters.

The file, which tells search engines the pages and directories of a site that are to be excluded from indexing.

BOMBING

Down, 7 letters.

When several blogs and sites link to the same site, with the same anchor text, aiming to push this page to the top of Google for the keyword in the anchor text.

STUFFING

Down, 8 letters.

Artificially inflating keyword density.

CROSSLINKING

Down, 12 letters.

The practice of linking together several domains usually owned by the same person/company in an attempt to artificially inflate a site's popularity.

SERP (search engine result page)

Across, 4 letters.

An abbreviation for pages with search results.

CLOAKING

Across, 8 letters.

An unethical SEO practice attempting to mislead spiders about the actual content of a site.

ALEXA

Down, 5 letters.

A company that provides traffic estimates and a rank for most of the sites on the Internet.

BANNED

Across, 6 letters.

A site that is excluded from search engines is called _____.

FRAMES

Across, 6 letters.

Actually it is several HTML pages but with the same URL. One of the nightmares of SEO.

SANDBOX

Down, 7 letters.

This is where Google places your site until it gets mature to be included in search engines.

USERAGENT

Down, 9 letters.

The generic name for a browser, a search engine spider or any program that requests a Web page.

DOORWAY

Across, 7 letters.

A black hat SEO practice that uses a single page, stuffed with keywords, to get higher rankings with the search engines. Also known as "gateway page" or "bridge page".

BLACKHAT

Down, 8 letters.

The other name of unethical SEO practices.

ALT

Across, 3 letters.

The text that appears when you put your mouse on top of an image or a picture.

SITEMAP

Down, 7 letters.

A page that contains a list of all the links on a site.

HIT

Across, 3 letters.

The number of times a file on a Web site is accessed is called ______.

OVERTURE

Across, 8 letters.

Once it was the leader in PPC Engines, now it is part of Yahoo!.

DENSITY

Down, 7 letters.
The percentage of keywords on a page.

SPIDER

Across, 6 letters.

Crawler.

EZINE

Down, 5 letters.

An electronic magazine that pubishes mainly articles.

LINKPOPULARITY

Across, 14 letters.

The number of backlinks a page has, regardless of the quality of the pages or sites linking to it.

WEBRANK

Down, 7 letters.

The score Yahoo! gives to a site. Can be from 1 to 10.

OUTBOUND

Down, 8 letters.

A link from your site to another.

YAHOO

Down, 5 letters.

One of the major search engines.

INBOUND

Across, 7 letters.

A link that comes from another site to yours.