Learn: website security and SEO glossary
Short, accurate explanations of the security and technical SEO terms you will see in a Wardzo report.
- What are source maps, and are public source maps a risk?
Source maps are .map files that map minified JavaScript back to the original source code. Publicly served production source maps expose your full front-end source.
- What does noindex mean?
Noindex is a directive in a robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header that tells search engines not to show a page in search results.
- What is a canonical tag?
A canonical tag tells search engines which URL is the main version of a page when the same content is reachable at several URLs.
- What is a Content Security Policy (CSP)?
A Content Security Policy is an HTTP header that tells browsers which sources of scripts, styles and other resources a page may load, limiting the damage of cross-site scripting.
- What is cloaking in SEO?
Cloaking means showing search engines different content or redirects from what human visitors see. It is a spam technique and a common sign of a hacked website.
- What is HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security)?
HSTS is a security header that tells browsers to always use HTTPS for a site, preventing downgrade attacks and insecure first requests.
- What is robots.txt?
robots.txt is a text file at the root of a website that tells crawlers, including search engines and AI crawlers, which paths they may fetch.