SEO

S1E1O1
US/sʌ/

proper noun

A surname from Korean.

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SEO1

nounSEO (countable and uncountable, plural SEOs)

plural SEOs

  1. InternetabbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of search engine optimization.

    Some are prepared to pay for placement; others use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) hoping their result percolates up the organic SERP.

    2011, Jaroslav Pokorny, Vaclav Repa, Karel Richta, Wita Wojtkowski, Henry Linger, Chris Barry, Michael Lang, Information Systems Development: Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 88
  2. InternetabbreviationcountableinitialismInitialism of search engine optimizer.
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    Several people that I spoke to made a similar point: the best SEOs are the ones that follow Google's rules, which essentially ask you to make amazing websites without even thinking about Google. You are not supposed to make any attempt to artificially boost a website's ranking; you are supposed to be designing websites for human readers, not for the algorithm. And many SEOs do exactly this kind of work: rewriting copy, making a site load more quickly, etc. But the existence of good SEOs does not negate the presence of scammers and idiots and people who get ahead by violating Google's terms of service, just as the mild-mannered teacher's pet in a classroom does not negate the obnoxious shouting of the kids that refuse to behave. A few loud kids can easily drown everyone else out.

    2023 November 1, Amanda Chicago Lewis, “The people who ruined the internet”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2024

    Synonyms: SEOer

Seo2

proper nounSeo (plural Seos)

plural Seos · alternative Suh

  1. A surname from Korean.

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Origin

  1. Korean서(徐)
  2. EnglishSeo

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

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Cite this entry
APA

SEO. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SEO

MLA

“SEO.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SEO. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “SEO,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SEO.

Source: SEO on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.