search engine optimization

noun

1. computing the process of adjusting the content, structure, etc, of a website so that it will be displayed prominently by a search engine

Example Sentences

His business, the Adoptimist, is part of a cottage industry that sprang up around adoption online, evolving as the internet did to include first search engine optimization, then social media.

From Slate

With Emmy submissions down this year, there aren’t as many slots available to salute all the worthy work, leading to some sad omissions — which, for the sake of alliteration and search engine optimization, we’ll call “snubs.”

From Los Angeles Times

That’s accomplished by gaming Google’s search engine optimization rules to get your AI-generated garbage to the top of a search results page for whatever product or service people are likely to be searching for.

From Salon

And, yes, there were omissions, which, for the sake of alliteration and search engine optimization, we’ll call “snubs.”

From Los Angeles Times

“It feels so retro — reminiscent of search engine optimization, social media and pivoting to video, just as AI and agents threaten to become a new web,” said Jeff Jarvis, Jarvis, author of “The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and its Lessons for the Age of the Internet.”

From Seattle Times