Web Design SEO Glossary N

Natural Links
Links that are accrued due to the quality of the web content on a website that other websites find informative, original, striking or worth pointing out to other web travelers. Natural links are of benefit to a website’s visibility in search results due to their value in how search engines derive their rankings.

Navigation
Navigation is the menus, lists or buttons provided for web visitors to use to finding information or items on a website. Intuitive navigation helps users find the content they want quickly – crucial to keeping web traffic on a website.

Negative Space
White space on a web page or in a graphic design.

Netiquette
Etiquette on the Internet. Accepted and polite online behavior as well as governing principles for frictionless social interchange in email and newsgroup posts. A small step toward world peace.

Newsgroup
An forum on a computer network or on the Internet dedicated to discussing a particular topic.

News Reader
Software that enables people to read from and post messages to an online newsgroup.