Glossary

Definitions of terms in the application, SEO concepts, and best practices

26 articles in this collection
Written by Philippe David, Emma Labrador, and Rebecca Berbel

Glossary of terms used in Oncrawl

Where to start if you don't know what something means

Written by Rebecca Berbel
Updated this week

Indexing

Redirect loops and redirect chains

Web browsers report redirection loops and redirect chains (pages that are redirected to pages that are also redirected) as errors.

Written by Rebecca Berbel
Updated over a week ago

What are compliant pages?

OnCrawl has a page categorization feature that allows you to understand which pages can be indexed and which ones cannot

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

Orphan pages

What are orphan pages? How to find and fix them with OnCrawl.

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

Active pages

What are active pages?

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

Active orphan pages

What are active orphan pages?

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

SEO visits

What are SEO visits?

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

Fresh Rank

What is the Fresh Rank? How is it calculated?

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

Crawl ratio & unique pages

How to optimize crawl ratio? What are unique pages?

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

Crawl frequency

What is crawl frequency? Best practices to crawl frequency?

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

HTML Quality

Meta Tags

What are the main meta tags used in SEO? How to optimize meta tags?

Written by Philippe David
Updated over a week ago

HTML tags used in SEO

What are the HTML tags important in SEO? How should they be optimized?

Written by Philippe David
Updated over a week ago

Social tags

What are social tags? How to use social tags?

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

Content

Text to Code ratio

What is the text to code ratio and ways it can be useful

Written by Rebecca Berbel
Updated over a week ago

How does OnCrawl’s Duplicate Content Cluster Map work?

How we detect duplicate blocks of text inside your pages and across your site, what we show in the cluster map, and how to read it.

Written by Rebecca Berbel
Updated over a week ago

Duplicate content

How to deal with duplicate content? Best practices to duplicate content

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

Word Count distribution

Best practices for word count

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

Structured data

What are structured data & schema.org? How to optimize structured data?

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

N-grams

What are n-grams? Best practices to n-grams

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

Architecture

Inrank

What is the Inrank? How is the Inrank calculated?

Written by Rebecca Berbel
Updated over a week ago

Canonical URLs

How to use rel=canonical? Best practices for canonicals

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

Follow - NoFollow

How to use follow nofollow attributes?

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

Page depth

How to optimize page depth?

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago

Hreflangs and translated pages

How to use hreflang rel=alternate tags to manage translated pages

Written by Rebecca Berbel
Updated over a week ago

Performance

Load Time

How to optimize load time?

Written by Philippe David
Updated over a week ago

Status code

Good practices for status codes and their definition

Written by Emma Labrador
Updated over a week ago