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# Search Console, SEO, AEO, GEO, and Technical Glossary

Every technical term used across the site has a practical definition and a path to deeper guidance.

[## Google Search Console

Google Search Console is Google’s free service for monitoring how a verified website performs in Google Search.](/glossary/google-search-console/)[## Search Console portfolio

A Search Console portfolio is a working set of related properties reviewed together to decide where attention should go first.](/glossary/search-console-portfolio/)[## Clicks, impressions, CTR, and position

Clicks, impressions, click-through rate, and average position are the core Search Console performance metrics.](/glossary/search-console-clicks-impressions-ctr-position/)[## Click-through rate (CTR)

CTR is clicks divided by impressions for the selected Search Console grouping and period.](/glossary/click-through-rate-ctr/)[## Search Analytics API

The Search Analytics API is the Search Console API resource for querying clicks, impressions, CTR, position, dates, and supported dimensions.](/glossary/search-analytics-api/)[## Sitemaps API and diagnostics

The Sitemaps API exposes submitted sitemap resources and fields such as path, status, timestamps, type, warning count, and error count.](/glossary/sitemaps-api-diagnostics/)[## Search Appearance

Search Appearance is a Search Console dimension describing supported ways a result appeared in Google Search.](/glossary/search-appearance/)[## AI Overviews and AI Mode

AI Overviews and AI Mode are generative AI experiences in Google Search that use core Search systems to retrieve and ground supporting web sources.](/glossary/ai-overviews-ai-mode/)[## SEO, AEO, and GEO

SEO improves a site for users and search systems; AEO and GEO are industry labels for visibility in answer and generative experiences.](/glossary/seo-aeo-geo/)[## Structured data and schema.org

Structured data is machine-readable markup that describes entities and page content; schema.org provides the shared vocabulary.](/glossary/structured-data-schema-org/)[## Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed

Core Web Vitals are field metrics for loading, responsiveness, and visual stability: LCP, INP, and CLS. PageSpeed Insights combines field and lab diagnostics.](/glossary/core-web-vitals-pagespeed/)[## llms.txt and Markdown mirrors

llms.txt is an experimental community proposal for a concise Markdown map of a website; Markdown mirrors are plain-text versions of canonical HTML pages.](/glossary/llms-txt-markdown/)[## Local-first and read-only OAuth

Local-first means working data is stored on the user’s device; read-only OAuth grants access to retrieve data without permission to modify it.](/glossary/local-first-read-only-oauth/)[## Internal linking

Internal linking connects pages within the same site using crawlable HTML links and descriptive anchor text.](/glossary/internal-linking/)[## robots.txt and AI crawlers

robots.txt is a public crawl-control file; AI crawler user agents are the identifiers used by services that may retrieve public web content.](/glossary/robots-txt-ai-crawlers/)