As I grow my understanding of SEO there are a number of terms I run across that puzzle me. In order to properly implement SEO tactics a clear understanding of these terms is necessary. To aid in our understanding of SEO I am bring forward various terms on an installment basis. I do hope they are helpful to those of you our there who might be reading. These terms can be found in various places such as Wikipedia and SEO glossaries.
Stemming: The ability for a search to include the "stem" of words. For example, stemming allows a user to enter "swimming" and get back results also for the stem word "swim."
Stop words: Conjunctions, prepositions and articles and other words such as AND, TO and A that appear often in documents yet alone may contain little meaning.
Thesaurus: A list of synonyms a search engine can use to find matches for particular words if the words themselves don't appear in documents.
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