SEO Glossary

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T&C
Acronym for Terms and Conditions.

Table
A table is an orderly arrangement of data in rows and columns. In database nomenclature, a table is a set of values for one variable, such as customer name or credit card number. In the context of web design, the use of tables allows authors to precisely control the layout of elements on a webpage.

TB
Acronym for terabyte, approximately 1 trillion bytes.

TCP/IP
Acronym for Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol. TCP/IP is the most common protocol used on the Internet. It is a connection-oriented protocol that offers reliable service and guaranteed delivery of data packets.

Teoma
Teoma is one of the internets full spidering search engines. Delivers results to parent company AskJeeves.

Term vector
Term vectors map associations between keywords based on the frequency and location of term when used in search queries. Apple has a high vector relation to "fresh fruit", but is not to "fruit of the loom".

Theme engine
A theme engine is a search engine that indexes entire sites as one giant page. They then use only the most relevant keywords found to determine your sites theme. By determining a theme search engines hope to return more accurate results..

Throwaway domain
A domain name that is of little value. People may buy throwaway domains for the purpose of testing SEO techniques.

TIF
Three letter filename extension for Tagged Image File Format files.

TIFF
Acronym for Tagged Image File Format. Also, the standard filename extension for such files.

Title
The name of an HTML webpage. Titles are displayed on browser's title bars at the top of the window. In the context of search engine optimization, titles are an important location for keywords. Keywords that appear in titles may be given extra weight in computing a page's relevance.

TLD
Acronym for Top Level Domain. A TLD is the highest level in the Domain Name System. Examples of TLDs are .com, .net., .org., and .mil. See domain, above.

Toolbar
A GUI feature in programs that display program commands as a row of small buttons that is easily accessible. These commands are usually the most commonly used. Some toolbars are add-ons. For example, the Google Toolbar is an add-on for web browsers that is freely downloadable and adds search and other features.

TOS
Acronym for Terms of Service.

Traffic
The visitors to a website. In general Internet nomenclature, traffic refers to data that passes along network connections and among computers and networks.

T-Rex
The spider that powers the Lycos search engine.

TTFB
Acronym for Time to First Byte.

TXT
Standard filename extension for plain text files.

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