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Contact Form
A fillable area on a website that obtains user information. Among many other uses, contact forms can be used to ask a question, request follow-up communication, or book a product demo with a company sales representative.
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Black Hat Tactics
Black Hat Tactics refer to a range of practices that increase a website’s ranking with search engines that are explicitly against the rules established by those engines.
One common example is keyword stuffing, which refers to spamming particular keywords on a page in order to try to rank for those topics. This sacrifices the user experience, since the page is not informational or useful, and is merely attempting to trick search engines.
In general, some black hat tactics may increase a site’s ranking temporarily, but will inevitably damage the site’s reputation and effectiveness long-term.
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Semantic HTML
Semantic HTML refers to numerous coding tags to indicate site structure and relative importance within a page’s content. This can be as simple as bolding or italicizing certain words, all the way to how you lay out the content to make it more easily readable by both users and search engines.
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Meta Description
A meta description is an HTML tag for a web page that describes the page briefly, summarizing it.
Meta descriptions are read by search engines and often displayed for users. For example, the brief description for web pages you see in Google results is often pulled directly from the page’s meta description.
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