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seo

US/sʌ/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans spoken

SEO is shaping a site so search engines rank it higher. Work on the SEO, an SEO agency.

Most of it is now writing something worth reading and making the site fast, which was not always true. SEO that tries to trick the search engine works until the next update and then costs you everything.

Definitions of seo

  1. 1nounseoShaping a site so search engines rank it higher.B2

    “Six months of SEO moved them from page four to page one.”

seo is a practice.

Where it comes from

  1. Korean

    ^서(徐)

  2. English

    Seo

  3. English, today

    seo

Seo comes from Korean ^서(徐). Cognate with English Xu (from Mandarin).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Marketing & Advertising

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seo in the wild

  • Park Hang-seo is a South Korean football manager and former player, who is the head coach of Thai League 2 club Kanchanaburi Power.

    Park Hang-seo

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.