What search engine optimization hopes to increase Crossword Clue

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OPTIMIZATION (noun)
1. the act of rendering optimal
SEARCH (verb)
1. inquire into
2. search or seek
SEARCH (noun)
1. an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
2. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

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Across

1. Scarecrow stuffing

6. Ralph who ran for president four times

11. Some HP products

14. Ebb

15. Top-tier group

16. Tuna variety often used in sashimi

17. On/off device

19. Empty space between things

20. Something at either end of a hammock, often

21. Brain tests, for short

22. "10 ___ or less" (sign at checkout)

24. Golf club for teeing off

26. Small orchard

27. One with Q or Z is worth 10 points

31. Audio genre designed to trigger tingling, for short

33. Regret

34. Pursue

35. Young Yorkie, e.g.

36. Better halves

40. Blue state

41. GPS guesses

43. April 15 deadline org.

44. The last "A" in N.C.A.A.: Abbr.

46. Cause of some rescreenings in an airport

50. Like many English bogs

51. Begin to grow choppers

54. Measure around the middle

55. Norse god of thunder

57. Agricultural locale

59. Chicken __ king

60. "My sympathies" … or what could be said of 17-, 27- and 46-Across

63. Rapper Tone ___

64. Reef material

65. Winning Monopoly player's collection

66. Had dinner, say

67. Transmits

68. Hockey feints

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Down

1. Add some seasoning to

2. Car in "Thelma & Louise," informally

3. Wild party

4. Faith no more?

5. More than damp

6. Big name in baseball caps

7. Sacha Baron Cohen persona

8. Counterpart of dahs, in Morse code

9. And more like that: Abbr.

10. Put back on the payroll

12. Creature that blends into its surroundings

13. Drinks daintily

18. Prognosticator

23. Young 'uns

25. Bygone staples of home theaters, informally

26. Utter delight

28. Item for a painter or hairstylist

29. Vehicle to and from school

30. Barely get with out

31. Someone who's not thinking may be on this

32. U.S./Soviet competition of the 1950s-’60s

35. Get-up-and-go

37. "It's a shame, really!"

38. Monster of Tolkiendom

39. Very wise

42. 32-card card game

45. Liberate

47. Important consideration for A.I. programmers

48. Bikini and others

49. Spongy ball material

52. “Frida” star Salma

53. Slowly chip away at

54. Fancy party

55. Gull relative

56. Lettuce unit

58. 'No ___, no fuss!'

61. Opponent

62. Unfamiliar

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