SEO glossary
The words of SEO,
in plain English.
Short, honest definitions of the SEO, backlink and launch terms you meet while getting a product listed. Written by the team that submits by hand and checks every listing.
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Directory submission
Directory submission is listing your website or product on online directories: sites that catalogue products or businesses by category. A good listing brings visitors, an early backlink and a page that shows up when people search your name.
Also: web directory submission · directory listing · startup directory submissionRead the definitionDofollow link
A dofollow link is a regular link without a nofollow, ugc or sponsored rel value, so search engines can follow it and count it. There's no dofollow attribute in HTML: it's simply the absence of the others.
Also: followed link · follow linkRead the definitionDomain Rating (DR)
Domain Rating (DR) is an Ahrefs metric that scores the strength of a website's backlink profile from 0 to 100, on a logarithmic scale. It's Ahrefs' own estimate, not a number Google uses.
Also: DR · Ahrefs DRRead the definition
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