SEO and growth glossary
G Terms and Definitions
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- Google My Business
- The former name for Google Business Profile.
- Google Posts
- Short timely updates published by businesses through Google Business Profile.
- Google review
- A customer review left on a Google Business Profile.
- Google Search
- The web search product operated by Google.
- Google Search Console
- Google's free webmaster tool for monitoring a site's presence in search, including indexing, queries, and issues.
- Google Shopping
- Google's product comparison and purchasing surface integrated into Search.
- Google Tag Manager
- A Google product for deploying and managing tracking and marketing tags through a single container.
- Googlebot
- Google's primary web crawler, with desktop and smartphone variants.
- Googlebot Desktop
- The desktop user agent variant of Googlebot.
- Googlebot Image
- Googlebot's variant for crawling and indexing images.
- Googlebot News
- Googlebot's variant focused on indexing news content.
- Googlebot Smartphone
- The mobile user agent variant of Googlebot, primary for mobile-first indexing.
- Googlebot Video
- Googlebot's variant for crawling and indexing video content.
- GPTBot
- OpenAI's crawler used to gather training data for its models.
- GPTBot block
- A robots.txt rule disallowing the GPTBot user agent from crawling a site.
- Gray hat SEO
- Optimization tactics that fall between clearly compliant and clearly prohibited.
- Grounded answer
- An AI-generated answer attributed to specific retrieved sources rather than the model's parametric memory.
- Grounding
- The practice of constraining a generative model's output to retrieved source information.
- GSC
- Common abbreviation for Google Search Console.
- gTLD
- A generic top-level domain, such as .com, .org, or .net.
- GTM
- Common abbreviation for Google Tag Manager.
- GTmetrix
- A web performance testing tool offering speed audits and recommendations.
- Guest blogging
- Writing posts published on third-party blogs, often as a link building tactic.
- Guest post
- An article written by an outside contributor and published on a third-party site.
- Gzip compression
- A widely supported compression algorithm reducing the transfer size of text-based assets.