Glossary
Launch, SEO and AI search glossary
238 terms founders run into when they launch a product: launch platforms and directories, backlinks and authority metrics, search and AI search, growth and the agents that now do the submitting. Every definition starts with a plain answer, and the directory terms use numbers from the 352 directories we checked.
Sections
- Launch and directory terms (55)
- Backlink and authority terms (50)
- Search and AI search terms (61)
- Startup growth terms (39)
- AI agent and automation terms (33)
Statistics
- Launch directory statistics 2026: 352 directories checked by hand
- AI tool directory statistics 2026: 122 directories checked
- Directory listing prices 2026: what 190 directories charge
- Directory submission form statistics: fields, limits and flows
- Product Hunt statistics 2026: what it takes to rank
- llms.txt and AI crawler statistics 2026: 508 sites crawled
- Backlink and link building statistics 2026
- AI search statistics 2026: AI Overviews, ChatGPT and citations
- AI agent statistics 2026: adoption, use cases and trust
- SaaS and startup launch statistics 2026
A to Z
A
- Activation
- AEO vs GEO
- Agent mode
- Agent skill
- Agentic workflow
- AI agent
- AI agent directory
- AI citation
- AI crawler
- AI Mode
- AI Overviews
- AI share of voice
- AI tools directory
- AI visibility
- Alternatives directory
- Anchor text
- Answer engine optimization
- Attribution
- Authority Score
- Automated directory submission
- Average position
B
C
- Canonical tag
- CAPTCHA
- Category tags
- Changelog
- Churn
- Claimed listing
- Claude Code
- Claude Code vs Codex vs Cursor
- ClaudeBot
- Click-through rate
- Cloudflare Turnstile
- Coding agent
- Cold outreach
- Community-led growth
- Computer use
- Content cluster
- Content decay
- Context window
- Contextual link
- Conversion rate
- Crawl budget
- Cursor
- Customer acquisition cost
- Customer lifetime value
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
- Landing page
- Large language model
- Launch badge
- Launch checklist
- Launch day
- Launch directory
- Launch email
- Launch gallery
- Launch leaderboard
- Launch page
- Launch plan
- Launch platform
- Launch platform vs directory
- Launch tagline
- Launch week
- Lifetime deal
- Link building
- Link earning
- Link equity
- Link exchange
- Link farm
- Link magnet
- Link reclamation
- Link scheme
- Link type
- Linkable asset
- Listing description
- Listing rejection
- llms.txt
- llms.txt vs robots.txt
- Long-tail keyword
- Lost backlink