FA - Language Code for Persian

FAQ - Abbreviation for Frequently Asked Question. Commonly found on websites, FAQs answer questions that many users generally have about a product or service.

Favicon - A small icon that is used by some browsers to identify a bookmarked Web site.

Favorite - Usually collection of links to selected websites stored on local user’s computer. (see also: Bookmark)

Feed Reader - Synonym for news aggregator.

FFA - Abbreviation for Free For All. FFA sites post large lists of unrelated links to anyone and everyone. FFA sites and the links they provide are basically useless. Humans do not use them and search engines minimize their importance in ranking formulas. Don't waste any time submitting your site to these places.

FI - Language Code for Finnish

File Common Internet File - The file types include .zip .pdf .gif .jpg .png .swf

Filter Words - The words such as; is, am, an, for, do, was and the. Words that search engines consider irrelevant as keywords. Also known as Stop words. Note: this is different to email filters used by ISP’s.

Firefox - A popular standards-compliant web-browser which supports a high level of customization through "extensions"

Firewall - A security system that prohibits unauthorized access to a network.

First-Mover Advantage -A sometimes-insurmountable advantage gained by the first significant company to move into a new market.

Flash - The multimedia technology developed by Macromedia to allow much interactivity to fit in a relatively small file size. A technology used to create animated web pages. Not search engine friendly.

Flog - A fake blog, a website pretending to be a blog but actually the creation of public relations firms, the mainstream media, or professional political operatives.

Forum - An online community where visitors may read and post topics of common interest.

FR - Language Code for French

Frames - A structure that allows for the dividing of a Web page into two or more independent parts. An HTML method that is allows designers to display two or more Web pages at the same time. The perception is that frames can improve website navigation, but they are browser-dependant and are not search engine friendly. Most search engines do not index framed pages.

Free - Without monetary cost. (Are you really looking for what mean FREE in glossary?)

Free Reprint Article - An article written by you and made freely available to other webmasters to publish on their websites. (see also: article PR)

Free Web Hosting - Web hosting offered without monetary cost.

Frequency Cap - Restriction on the amount of times a specific visitor is shown a particular advertisement.

Fresh Crawl - Utilizes FreshBot to review already indexed pages and any pages where the content has been updated.

FreshBot - A sister to GoogleBot, this spider crawls highly ranked sites on a very frequent basis.

FRF - Currency Code for France Francs

FrontPage Extensions - A set of server add-ons scripts and programs that enable the special functions of Microsoft FrontPage.

FrontPage Hosting - A web hosting plan that supports FrontPage, a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) website building tool from Microsoft.

FTC - Abbreviation for Federal Trade Commission

FTP - Abbreviation for File Transfer Protocol, technology that allows file transfers from a local machine to the server where your website is hosted.

Full-Text Index - An index containing every word of every document cataloged, including stop words.

Further In Code - The headlines can be inscribed using HTML heading tags that can influence positioning.

Fuzzy Search - A search that will find matches even when words are only partially spelled or misspelled.