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Google AI Mode (formerly Search Generative Experience or SGE) is Google’s integrated AI-powered search interface that provides AI-generated answers with source citations directly in search results, powered by Google’s Gemini…

AI Overviews (formerly called SGE or Search Generative Experience) are AI-generated answer summaries that appear at the top of Google search results, synthesizing information from multiple sources and providing direct…

Render blocking resources are CSS and JavaScript files that prevent a web page from displaying content until they’re fully downloaded and processed. When a browser encounters a render-blocking resource in…

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of optimizing your content to be discovered, cited, and referenced by AI-powered answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and Claude. While…

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a geographically distributed network of servers that caches and delivers your website’s static assets from locations closest to your users. Instead of every visitor…

Lazy loading is a performance optimization technique that defers loading non-critical resources until they’re actually needed—typically when they’re about to enter the viewport. Instead of loading every image, video, and…

Breadcrumbs are navigational elements that show users their current location within a website’s hierarchy and provide clickable links back to parent pages. They typically appear near the top of a…

Hreflang is an HTML attribute that tells search engines which language and regional version of a page to show users based on their location and language preferences. It prevents duplicate…

Structured data is a standardized format for providing information about a page and classifying its content in a way search engines can understand. It uses schema markup (typically JSON-LD) to…

Mobile-first indexing means Google predominantly uses the mobile version of your website for indexing and ranking—not the desktop version. It’s Google’s response to the reality that over 60% of searches…

Page speed is the measure of how quickly content on a web page loads and becomes interactive for users. It’s one of Google’s confirmed ranking factors and directly impacts user…

HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) is the encrypted version of HTTP, the protocol used to transfer data between a web browser and a website. It uses SSL/TLS encryption to protect…