The accuracy of the match between the keyword typed in the search box by an Internet user, and the results returned by the search engine.
Subjective measure of how well a given web page delivers the information a user is looking for and by which a search engine establishes rankings.
Refers to how closely the content on a web page relates to the search term requested.
The system search engines use to rank search results. Relevancy is based on a mathematically calculated formula known only by the search engine, the formula is also known as algorithm, over 70 factors can be included in the algorithm.
How Search engines determine any given page's ranking from searches. Relevancy is based on mathematical formulas called algorithms. These Algorithms take several factors into account to consider a site relevant including: keyword density, link popularity, amount of content and relevance of content as it relates to the searched word or phrase.
Term used to describe how close the content of a page is in relation to the keyword phrase used to search.
How well a web page or other indexable document provides information for which a searcher is looking, as measured by the searcher. Generally, the higher the relevance, the higher the RANKING, although this does not have to be the case.
The measure of the accuracy of the search results - in other words it's a measure of how close the documents listed in the search results are to what the user was looking for. The ability to return relevant results is a big thing in the search engine world - and arguably the one thing that made Google stand out of the crowd and gain much popularity in a short time. Also see precision and recall .
Search engine's measure of how well a resource compares to the input search criteria. Each search engine calculates their relevancy differently and therefore results are ordered differently.
How well a document provides the information a user is looking for, as measured by the user.
The degree to which the content on a web page that is returned in a list of search results (SERPS) "matches" the topic of the information that the user was searching for. In other words, if you use the search phrase "small green widgets" and a page is returned that deals with "large red thingamajigs", the relevancy of that page is very poor.
Relevancy is the measure of a site’s relevance to individual search terms. This is determined by a search engines algorithm which determine which sites should be displayed in the results.
A measure of how closely your site matches the search terms, calculated according to the algorithm employed by that particular search engine.
how closely related a particular page is to the search term requested.
A search engine's numeric measure of how well a particular URL matches terms entered in a search query.
a term used to describe the accuracy of search engine results.
How closely the content on your site matches what the search engine believes the visitor is looking for based on the keywords typed.
The extent to which a web page or other search result relates to or is associated with your search.
The degree to which a document or Web page provides the information the user is looking for, in terms of user needs.