Welcome to the Christmas issue of the Search Engine Facts newsletter.

Instead of our regular weekly articles, news and facts, we decided to publish a Christmas crossword puzzle about search engine optimization this week. Have fun! :-)

We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Table of contents:

• Axandra's SEO Christmas crossword puzzle
• Recommended resources
• Previous articles

You can get a printable version here.

Across 2. Search engine that belongs to Yahoo 5. Google's pay per click system 6. Internet service provider, abbreviation 7. Number of times that your ad is displayed to users 13. Important for high rankings on Google 14. Main page of your website 15. Categorized catalog of websites 16. Should be avoided to get high rankings 17. What we wish you for 2008 18. Cost per thousand impressions, abbreviation 19. What SEO is all about 21. Hypertext markup language, abbreviation 22. Displaying different content to search engines and users 24. Small icon that appears next to URLs in a web browser 26. Search engine that belongs to Yahoo 28. Popular search engine 29. Today 30. Web page that links to all pages of your website 33. Tracks the ROI of your online ads 34. Search engines store copies of web pages in it. 35. Name of Google's search engine spider 36. Program to view web pages 37. Periodically updated online journal 38. Cascading style sheets, abbreviation 39. Common abbreviation for the Open Directory Project 40. Developers of popular SEO tools 41. Sites which link to well trusted websites within their topical community

Down 1. Hypertext transfer protocol, abbreviation 3. Popular website promotion tool 4. Google's contextual advertising network 8. What your website will be with IBP 9. return on investment, abbreviation 10. Small data file written to a user's local computer 11. search engine optimization, abbreviation 12. Takes a visit today 18. Cost per action, abbreviation 19. Limiting a website to appear only once or twice in the search results 20. Program used by a search engine to explore web pages and links 21. Making a search engine believe that another website exists at your URL 22. Cost per click, abbreviation 23. Attribute used to prevent a link from passing link authority 25. Domain name server, abbreviation 27. Order of web pages in the search results 31. How Google names its continuous crawl 32. Word or phrase that prospects search for. 34. Last name of Google's head of the anti spam team 38. Click through rate, abbreviation

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