Glossary

Terms specific to Seofyme's product are covered in more depth on Core concepts. This page covers general SEO terminology used throughout the docs.

Canonical URL

The URL you're telling search engines is the authoritative version of a page, used when the same or similar content is reachable at more than one address.

Meta description

The short summary shown under a page's title in search results. It doesn't directly affect rankings but strongly affects click-through rate.

Noindex

A directive telling search engines not to include a page in their index, while still allowing them to crawl it (unless combined with a crawl block).

Open Graph

A set of meta tags (originally from Facebook) that control how a page's title, description, and image appear when shared on social platforms.

Rich result

An enhanced search result — stars, FAQs, product prices — made possible by valid structured data (schema) on the page.

Schema / structured data

Machine-readable markup (usually JSON-LD) describing what's on a page — an article, a product, a local business — in a vocabulary search engines understand.

Sitemap

A machine-readable list of a site's URLs, submitted to or discovered by search engines to help them find and prioritize content to crawl.

SERP

Search Engine Results Page — the page of results a search engine shows for a query.