SEO / Search Marketing terms starting with F

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  1. Fair Use The stated exceptions of allowed usage of work under copyright without requiring permission of the original copyright holder.
  2. Fake Copy Listings Sometimes a malicious company will steal a web page or the entire contents of a web site, re-publish at a different URL and register with one or more…
  3. False Drop A web page retrieved from a search engine or directory which is not relevant to the query used.
  4. Favicon Favorites Icon is a small icon which appears next to URLs in a web browser. Upload an image named favicon.
  5. Feed A component that "feeds" the signal from the optical system to the amplification electronics. Also called a "feed horn" or "horn".
  6. Feed Reader Software or website used to subscribe to feed update notifications. See also: Bloglines - popular web based feed reader Google Reader - popular web based…
  7. FFA Free for all pages are pages which allow anyone to add a link to them. Generally these links do not pull much weight in search relevancy algorithms…
  8. filter A criterion you specify to limit the results when you list or describe your Amazon EC2 resources.
  9. Findability How easily found your site is using search engines.
  10. Firefox Popular extensible open source web browser. See also: Download Firefox
  11. Flash A sudden, brief illumination of a conductive channel associated with lightning, which may contain multiple strokes with their associated stepped leaders…
  12. Flash intro an animated 'short' created using Flash that Internet users are made to sit through upon entry to a home page. Flash intros annoy users.
  13. Flash Page See Splash Page.
  14. Floating Ads An ad that appears within the main browser window on top of the page's normal content, appearing to "float" over the top of the page.
  15. Flux The amount of energy passing through a unit area (for example, 1m2) per time. On this website, we will be discussing the flux of light energy due to…
  16. Font and Background Spoofs Various techniques used to place invisible text in a web page, to improve positioning without affecting the appearance of the page.
  17. Forums See discussion forums.
  18. Frames An HTML technique for combining two or more separate HTML documents within a single web browser screen.
  19. Frameset A web page that is made up of frames. A useful analogy: if the individual frames that make up the frameset are the 'children,' then the frameset is the…
  20. Frequency The number of cycles through which an alternating current passes per second; in the U.S.
  21. Fresh The term that Google uses to refer to frequently changing home pages. When Googlebot ascertains that a given home page is changing frequently, Googlebot…
  22. Fresh Content Content which is dynamic in nature and gives people a reason to keep paying attention to your website.
  23. FTP File Transfer Protocol (ADP/Internet term).
  24. full-text index A resource that is compiled by the Index engine to enable full-text search of documents, document properties, and content stored outside the workspace but…
  25. Fuzzy Search Subjective content searching (as compared to word searching of objective data).