Rankelle

Words, used precisely

Glossary

Two vocabularies in one list: the words this product uses precisely, and the ordinary SEO words a client meets in a report and is too polite to ask about.

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  • Control set

    URLs comparable to a fix's affected pages but unaffected by it, frozen at the moment the fix lands.

  • Verdict

    The measured outcome of a fix: worked, no effect, regressed, or inconclusive.

  • Cause

    A group of findings sharing an issue type and URL pattern, inferred to come from a single origin.

  • Finding

    One issue detected on one page. The raw, per-page unit.

  • Landed

    A fix whose defect has been confirmed gone by re-crawl. Mechanical, not impact.

  • Sentinel

    A URL under continuous cheap watch for change.

  • Surface hash

    A hash of a page's SEO-relevant extracted fields only, never of raw HTML.

  • Crawl budget

    How much of a site gets fetched in a period — by a search engine, and by us.

  • Canonical

    The tag telling search engines which URL is the real one when several show the same content.

  • Indexable

    Allowed to appear in search results.

  • Meta description

    The summary text shown under your link in search results.

  • Impressions

    How many times your page was shown in search results.

  • Click-through rate

    Clicks divided by impressions, for a page or a query.

  • Position

    Your average rank in search results for a term.

  • Crawler

    The automated reader search engines use to find pages.

  • Structured data

    A block of machine-readable code labelling what a page contains, so search engines do not have to guess.

  • Orphan page

    A page listed in the sitemap that no other page on the site links to.

  • Answer engine

    A product that answers a buyer's question in prose: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google's AI Overview.

  • Visibility

    The share of a run's answers that named the client at all.

  • Share of voice

    The client's mentions as a share of every brand mention in the run.

  • Portfolio

    Every client an agency runs, seen as one ordered list rather than as a folder of dashboards.

  • Measurement window

    The period after a fix lands over which the affected pages and the control set are compared.

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