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Real Estate And Search Engine Optimization Glossary

General Lien
A lien such as a tax lien or judgment lien, which attaches to all property of the debtor rather than the lien of, for example, a trust deed, which attaches only to a specific property.

General Warranty Deed
A deed which conveys not only all the grantor's interests in and title to the property to the grantee, but also warrants that if the title is defective or has a "cloud" on it (such as mortgage claims, tax liens, title claims, judgments, or mechanic's liens against it) the
grantee may hold the grantor liable.

Google bombing
When a group of sites join forces to link to an unflattering page about a site, company or person resulting in a rapid rise of the page in Google.  Google bombing takes advantage of the power of hyperlink text and of PageRank.

Googlebot
a Googlebot is a search bot used by Google. It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google search engine. If a webmaster wishes to restrict the information on their site available to a Googlebot, or other spider, they can do so by with the appropriate directives in a robots.txt file.

Googleware
The assortment of tools produced by Google.Includes (but is not limited to):
Blogsearch, Google Analytics, Adwords, Adsense, Google Video, Google Scholar, Google News, Google search, Froogle, Google Maps, Google Images, Google Earth.

Google XML sitemap
a service/method offered by Google to expedite and ensure indexing of sites with lots of pages

Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA/Ginnie Mae))
A government owned agency that acts as a secondary market conduit for FHA and VA loans. GNMA guarantees the timely principal and interest payments to investors.

Grandfather Clause
The clause in a law permitting the continuation of a use, business, etc., which was permissible but because of a change in the law is now no longer permissible.

Ground Rent
Rent paid for vacant land. If the property is improved, ground rent is the portion attributable to the land only.

Grantee
The buyer, who receives a deed.

 

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