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Nofollow
A backlink that carries the “nofollow” HTML tag. This indicates to search engines that should not count as a vote of quality for that site.
Some sites, particularly those with user-generated content, will mark all of their backlinks as nofollow, to avoid abuse of their content systems to generate backlink SEO value for third-party websites.
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Total Addressable Market
Refers to the entirety of a company’s potential customer base. The total addressable market might be used to refer to the broadest possible marketing campaign that would still reach a relevant audience.
Often, this market is used not to create marketing campaigns, but to break into sub-groups, from which more targeted marketing efforts can be made to more specialized but still large groups of potential customers.
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AdSense
AdSense is Google’s platform for website monetization. Users can make money on their site by offering ad space, and advertisers can position themselves on relevant sites by creating multimedia ads that will be displayed throughout Google’s ad network.
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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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