SEO and growth glossary
P Terms and Definitions
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All P definitions
- PA
- Common abbreviation for Page Authority.
- PAA
- Common abbreviation for People Also Ask, a SERP feature with expandable related questions.
- Page experience report
- A Search Console report consolidating Core Web Vitals, HTTPS, and other experience signals.
- Page experience signal
- A composite Google ranking signal incorporating Core Web Vitals and other UX factors.
- Page Experience Update
- A Google update introducing the page experience signal as a confirmed ranking factor.
- Page indexing report
- A Search Console report showing which URLs are indexed and which are excluded with reasons.
- Page one ranking
- A position within the first ten organic results for a query.
- Page report
- A Search Console performance report broken down by landing page.
- Page slug
- The portion of a URL that identifies a specific page within a path structure.
- Page speed
- The general performance of a web page in delivering content to a user's device.
- Page title
- Another name for the title tag, the title element in the page head.
- Page view
- A single instance of a user loading or reloading a page.
- PageRank
- Google's foundational algorithm for ranking pages based on the structure of links between them.
- Pages per session
- The average number of pages viewed per session.
- PageSpeed Insights
- Google's free tool reporting Core Web Vitals and other performance data for a URL.
- Pagination
- The division of a long set of items into multiple sequential pages.
- Paid link
- A backlink obtained through payment, requiring sponsored or nofollow attribution under search guidelines.
- Paid listing
- A search result paid for by an advertiser.
- Paid placement
- A paid arrangement to publish content or links on a third-party site.
- Paid search
- Search advertising in which advertisers pay for placement on search results.
- Paid traffic
- Site visits originating from paid advertising clicks.
- Panda
- A 2011 Google algorithm update targeting low-quality and thin content sites.
- Paragraph snippet
- A featured snippet that returns a short paragraph extracted from a page.
- Parameter handling
- The deliberate management of how URL parameters are crawled, indexed, and canonicalized.
- Paraphrased content
- Content that restates source material in different words while preserving meaning.
- Parasite SEO
- Publishing content on high-authority third-party domains to leverage their rankings.
- Partial hydration
- Hydrating only specific interactive components of a page rather than the entire DOM.
- Partial match anchor
- Anchor text containing some but not all of the target keyword.
- PASF
- Common abbreviation for People Also Search For, a SERP feature suggesting related queries.
- Passage indexing
- Google's capability to surface specific passages from longer pages for relevant queries.
- Passage ranking
- Another name for passage indexing, ranking specific passages independently of full pages.
- Path analysis
- Analytical examination of the sequence of pages or events users move through.
- PBN
- Private blog network, a collection of sites built or acquired primarily to link to a target site.
- PDP
- Common abbreviation for Product Detail Page.
- Penguin
- A 2012 Google algorithm update targeting manipulative link patterns.
- People Also Ask
- A SERP feature presenting expandable related questions and answers.
- People Also Search For
- A SERP feature suggesting related queries that users have searched for.
- People-first content
- Content created primarily to help people, in line with Google's helpful content guidance.
- Performance report
- A Search Console report showing impressions, clicks, CTR, and average position by query and page.