Hidden Text
Text on a web page which is visible to search engine spiders but not visible to human visitors (e.g. the text is the same or very similar color as the background of the web page, extremely small font is used, usage of multiple TITLE tags, the text in HTML comment, etc.). As this technique could artificially increase the relevancy of the web sites and was abused in the past it's treated as spam on most search engines.

Hold Status
A domain name that has not been reregistered by its owner, but not yet in the pool of available names may be said to be on hold status.

Host
A host is the company who actually provides the hardware, servers, backbone connections, backup system etc, where your web site is housed. It is their job to make sure your web site is available to site visitors on the world wide web around the clock. It is what you pay the monthly fee for.

Hosting Control Panel
is a privately accessed area of your web site that comes with your hosting. You use the user name and password you select at sign-up to accesss this area.

Hosting Plan
Currently the most important spidering search engine, Google is dominating the search engine market. Google is an Internet search engine that ranks web pages in a list of hits by giving weight to the links that reference a specific page. It can be found at www.google.com

Hotlink

A hotlink is a clickable word, phrase or icon which will connect you to a selected website, or another page in the same website, also called a hyperlink.

HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
Web sites on the internet are stored or presented as documents which web browsers can interpret. These document files are designed using a specific tagging language.

Hub
A common connection point for devices in a network.

Hyperlink

A hyperlink is a clickable word, phrase or icon which will connect you to a selected website, or another page in the same website, also called a hotlink.