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Sitemap
A structured file that catalogs and organizes a website, for easy, readable access by search engines.
A sitemap should be submitted to major search engines when you create a site, and also any time you have large-scale restructuring of the site. New sitemaps do not need to be generated every time a new page goes live. These will usually be crawled by search engines and added to the number of indexed pages on a site.
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Javascript
JS, or Javascript, is a programming language used on numerous websites. Most sites you visit incorporate JS in some way to define the behavior of the site when a user takes particular actions.
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Session (Web Session)
An individual visit to a website. This could consist of a visit to a single page or click throughs to numerous pages on the site, and can also take seconds or hours depending on the user.
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Blog
A regularly updated website or portion of a website with informational or entertaining articles on various topics. Blogs can exist on personal websites all the way up to multinational organizations that specialize in a particular subject.
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