As many of you experience memebers might remember, being a newbie could be a bit intimidating. However, I am trying my best. But from time to time I read terms that I am not fimailiar with. Is there a SEO glossary I can view? And for now can you help me with the following terms? Sandbox SERPS PR and what is a robot.txt file? ThankS!
just searched google for seo glossary: http://www.seo-glossary.com/ this looks like what you want, right? robots.txt is a file that communicates with crawlers and is most commonly used by people like us to tell spiders which pages are okay to index and which are not.
I'm a relative n00b myself, but i'll take a shot: Sandbox = Google limits your site's exposure on results pages for a while when it is new. May last several months. SERPS = Search Engine Results Pages. 'nough said. PR = PageRank Google's score for how valuable they think your page is. Higher PR pages show up earlier in SERPS, in theory. robot.txt = a file you can use to tell search engines not to index certain pages in your site. A Google search on any of these terms will yield more info than you can imagine.
Sandbox - An apparent apprenticeship period in which new site does no rank well on Google. I think it has more to do with lack of casched pages in Google database from which they make their index. Always new pages have played the now you see me now you don't game> SERPS - Search Engine Results Pages. We all want to be on the first page in the first position in the search engine listings. PR = Pagerank. Google determines pagerank by number of pages linking to site. The more pages, the higher the page rank. Taken into account in the calculation is the pagerank of the pages linking to you. Robots.txt file is a text file that tells non-rogue robots just which folders you want indexed and which you do not. Google, MSN, and Yahoo tend to obey the robots.txt file. Good luck. Shannon