- URL
- Universal Resource Locator
- The address of a web page
- The URL is one of the ways that a search engine determines what a page is about. The format of a URL involves forward slashes [/] which mirror a hierarchical directory tree. This is a relic from the days when web pages were static documents in nested folders. Search engines use this hierarchy, along with other factors, to determine what topics the page is related to on a given website.