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A
AdSense
AdSense is an advertising program run by Google. Web
site owners can enroll in this program to enable text and image
advertisements on their sites. These ads are administered by Google and
generate revenue on a per-click basis. Google utilizes its search technology
to serve ads based on website content, the user's geographical location, and
other factors. Those wanting to advertise with Google's targeted ad system
may sign up through AdWords.
AdWords
AdWords is Google's branded P4P service. It
provides relevant text-based ads on Google's site, and on external sites
willing to host Google ads. On the Google site, they are pure text, and thus
difficult to block. However, on external sites, they are hosted within an
IFRAME tag, making them easy to remove with advertisement blockers like the Mozilla extension AdBlock.
Companies wishing to promote their products can enroll in this program to
their adds on Google or on websites which use AdSense,
the other side of the Google advertising model.
Affiliate
An affiliate is an entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity.
Affiliate Network
An affiliate network is composed of a group of merchants and a group of
affiliates. Merchants join the network and affiliates join the network in
order to advertise the merchant products in exchange of a commision
from the merchant. Affiliate networks present some great advantages for the
merchant and the affiliate. The merchant gets potential access to a wide
networks of affiliates. The affiliate dos not necessarly
need to make a certain sale amount for one particular merchant but rather for
the entire range of merchants before getting paid.
Anchor Text
Anchor text is the visible text in a hyperlink. Anchor text gets a lot of
weight in search engine algorithms because the linked text is usually
relevant to the landing page. The objective of search engines is to provide
highly relevant search results; this is where anchor text helps as the
tendency is, more often than not, to hyperlink words relevant to the landing
page.
ASP
Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's server-side technology for
dynamically-generated web pages that is marketed as an adjunct to Internet
Information Server (IIS).
Authoring Tool
An authoring tool is a software application used to create multimedia content
typically for delivery on the World Wide Web.
B
B2B
Business-to-business electronic commerce (B2B) typically takes the form of
automated processes between trading partners and is performed in much higher
volumes than business-to-consumer (B2C) applications.
B2C
Business-to-consumer electronic commerce (B2C) is typified by the publicly
addressed forms of eCommerce such as webshops and TeleShopping.
Backlink
Backlinks are incoming links to a website. For
example, a site with a lot of backlinks implies
that many other sites link to that site.
Bandwidth
The word bandwidth is also used to mean the amount of data that can be
transferred through a digital connection in a given time period (i.e., the connection's
bit rate). In such cases, bandwidth is usually measured in bits or bytes per
second.
Blog
A weblog, Web log or simply a blog,
is a web application which contains periodic posts on a common webpage. These
posts are often but not necessarily in reverse chronological order. Such a
website would typically be accessible to any Internet user. The term "blog" came into common use as a way of avoiding
confusion with the term server log.
Bridge Page
Bridge Page are web pages that are created to rank high in search engines for
particular phrases with purpose to seduce or hoax you to watch another page.
They are also known as bridge pages, portal pages, zebra pages, jump pages,
gateway pages, entry pages and by other names.
C
CGI
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an important World Wide Web technology that
enables a client web browser to request data from a program executed on the
Web server. CGI specifies a standard for passing data between the client and
the program.
Client
In computing, a client is a system that accesses a (remote) service on
another computer by some kind of network. The term was first applied to
devices that were not capable of running their own stand-alone programs, but
could interact with remote computers via a network. These dumb terminals were
clients of the time-sharing mainframe computer.
ColdFusion
In computing, ColdFusion is a tag-based, middleware
programming language used chiefly for writing web-based applications. The
language was created by JJ Allaire and his brother
Jeremy Allaire, but the product is currently owned
by Macromedia.
Counter
Counters are (usually) numerical counters displayed on some Internet web
pages. Once set up, these counters will be incremented one every time the web
page is retrieved (viewed on a web browser).
CPA
Cost Per Action (CPA) for banner ads; the fee charged every time a user
completes a desired action, such as filling out a form, downloading software,
or viewing a series of pages.
CPC
Cost Per Click (CPC) for banner ads; the fee charged every time a user clicks
on a banner ad or HTML link.
CPL
Cost Per Lead (CPL). A lead can be anything from an e-mail address for a
newsletter to a complete survey that needs to be completely filled out and
verified in order to get credit.
CPM
Cost Per 1000 Impressions (CPM), of buying advertising space in a given media
vehicle. For example, $100 CPM means each impression cost 10 cents.
"1" CPM mens "1000"
Impressions.
CPS
Cost Per Sale (CPS); the fee charged every
time a user completes a purchase.
Crawler
A web crawler (also known as web spider) is a program which browses the World
Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. A web crawler is one type of bot. Web crawlers not only keep a copy of all the visited
pages for later processing - for example by a search engine but also index
these pages to make the search narrower.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a computer language used to describe the
presentation of a structured document written in HTML, XHTML or XML. The CSS
specification is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
CTR
Click Through Ratio (CTR); the ratio of click-throughs
to impressions for a given ad run. For example, if a banner has a CTR of
40:1, it means that 1 out of 40 people have clicked on it.
D
Dead Link
A dead link is a link on the world wide web that points to a webpage or
server that is permanently unavailable. Dead links are commonplace on the
Internet, but they are considered to be unprofessional.
DHTML
Dynamic HTML or DHTML designates a technique of creating interactive web
sites by using a combination of the static markup language HTML, a
client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript) and the style definition
language Cascading Style Sheets.
Directory
In computing, a directory, catalog, or folder, is an entity in a file system
which contains a group of files and other directories. A typical file system
contains thousands of files, and directories help organize them by keeping
related files together. A directory contained inside another directory is
called a subdirectory of that directory. Together, the directories form a
hierarchy, or tree structure.
DNS
The Domain Name Server (System) or DNS is a system that stores information
about host names and domain names in a kind of distributed database on
networks, such as the Internet. Most importantly, it provides an IP address
for each host name, and lists the mail exchange servers accepting e-mail for
each domain.
Domain Name
A domain name is the unique name of a computer on the Internet that
distinguishes it from the other systems on the network.
Doorway Page
Doorway pages are web pages that are created to rank high in search engines
for particular phrases with purpose to seduce or hoax you to watch another
page. They are also known as bridge pages, portal pages, zebra pages, jump
pages, gateway pages, entry pages and by other names.
Download
The process of retrieving information from any computer to your computer is
called downloading.
Dynamic Page
Information on web pages which changes or is changed automatically. Sometimes
it's possible to spot this technique by looking at a page's file extension.
Search engines will currently index dynamic content in a similar fashion to
static content.
E
EPC
EPC means; Earnings Per Click.
EPV
EPV means; Earnings Per Visitor.
Error 400
Error 400: Bad Request means; the request is incorrect.
Error 401
Error 401: Unauthorized means; the client does not have the required
privileges to access the site.
Error 403
Error 403: Forbidden means; the request is forbidden. You don't have an
access to enter the site.
Error 404
Error 404: Not Found means; the requested resource no longer exists or has
been moved, or the address may be misspelled.
Error 500
Error 500: Internal Server Error means; the server encountered an unexpected
condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request by the client for
access to the requested URL.
Error 501
Error 501: Not Implemented means; the server does not support the service
type or the called protocol.
Error 503
Error 503: Service Unavailable means; the server took too long to answer and
the connection timed out.
F
Favicon
A favicon (short for "Favorites icon"),
also known as a page icon, is an icon associated with a particular website. A
web designer can create such an icon, and many graphical web browsers—such as
recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, and Konqueror—can
then make use of them. Browsers that support favicons
may display them in the browser's address bar, next to the site's name in
lists of bookmarks, and next to the page's title in a Tabbed Document
Interface.
FFA
A Free For All link page (FFA) is a web page set up to ostensibly improving
the search engine placement of a particular web site.
Frames
Frames is the HTML extension that Netscape developed to divide a page up into
several sub-pages.
FTP
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a software standard for transferring
computer files between machines with widely different operating systems. It
belongs to the application layer of the Internet protocol suite.
G
Gateway Page
Gateway Page are web pages that are created to rank high in search engines
for particular phrases with purpose to seduce or hoax you to watch another
page. They are also known as bridge pages, portal pages, zebra pages, jump
pages, gateway pages, entry pages and by other names.
H
Hit
Hit is a request for a file on a webserver. Each
HTML document and graphic file counts as a separate hit, so they aren't an
accurate representation of the number of different visitors to your site.
HTML
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup
language designed for the creation of web pages and other information
viewable in a browser.
HTTP
HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the primary method
used to convey information on the World Wide Web. The original purpose was to
provide a way to publish and receive HTML pages.
HTTPS
HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the communication protocol of the World
Wide Web. It was invented by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide
authentication and encrypted communication and is used in electronic
commerce.
Hyperlink
A hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference in a hypertext document to
another document or other resource. As such it would be similar to a citation
in literature. However, combined with a data network and suitable access
protocol, it can be used to fetch the resource referenced. This can then be
saved, viewed, or displayed as part of the referencing document.
Hypertext
Hypertext is a user interface paradigm for displaying documents which contain
automated cross-references to other documents called hyperlinks. Selecting a
hyperlink causes the computer to display the linked document within a very
short period of time.
I
Image Map
In HTML, a list of co-ordinates relating to a specific image, created in
order to hyperlink areas of the image to various destinations. For example, a
map of the world may have each country hyperlinked to further information
about that country. The intention of an image map is to provide an easy way
of linking various parts of an image without resorting to dividing the image
into separate parts.
IP Address
An IP address is a unique number, akin to a telephone number, used by
machines (usually computers) to refer to each other when sending information
through the Internet using the Internet Protocol. This allows machines
passing the information onwards on behalf of the sender to know where to send
it next, and for the machine receiving the information to know that it is the
intended destination.
ISP
An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers
users access to the Internet and related services. Most telecommunications
operators are ISPs. They provide services like internet transit, domain name
registration and hosting, dial-up access, leased line access and colocation.
J
Java
Java is an object-oriented programming language developed primarily by James
Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems. The language, initially called
Oak (named after the oak trees outside Gosling's office), was intended to
replace C++, although the feature set better resembles that of Objective C.
JavaScript
JavaScript, often mistyped as "Javascript",
is an object-oriented scripting language based on the concept of prototypes.
The language is most well known for its use in websites. It was originally
developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape
Communications under the name Mocha and then LiveScript
but then renamed to "JavaScript". JavaScript has a syntax close to
that of Sun Microsystems’ Java language. But beside name and syntax the
language has more in common with Self than with Java. JavaScript was first
standardized in 1997–1999 by ECMA under the name ECMAScript.
The standard (as of December 1999) is ECMA-262 Edition 3, and corresponds to
JavaScript 1.5. This is also now an ISO 16262 standard.
K
Keyword
A word searched for in a search command. Keywords are searched in any order.
Use spaces to separate keywords in simple keyword searching.
Keyword Density
A property of the text in a web page which indicates how close together the
keywords appear. Some search engines use this property for Positioning. Analysers are available which allow comparisons between
pages. Pages can then be produced with the similar keyword densities to those
found in high ranking pages.
Keyword Phrase
More than one Keyword, searched exactly as keyed (all terms required to be in
documents, in the order keyed). Enclosing keywords in quotations "
" forms a phrase in Search Engines. Some times a phrase is called a
"character string."
L
Link Farm
Link farm is a large group of web pages created that contain hyperlinks to
one another or a specific other page. Link farms are normally created by
programs, rather than by human beings.
Link Popularity
Link popularity is a measure of the quantity and quality of other web sites
that link to a specific site on the World Wide Web. It is an example of the
move by search engines towards off-the-page-criteria to determine quality
content. In theory, off-the-page-criteria adds the aspect of impartiality to
search engine rankings.
M
Meta Tag
Meta tags are used to provide structured data
about data.
Mirror Site
Mirror site is an exact copy of another Internet site (often a web site).
Mirror sites are most commonly used to provide multiple sources of the same
information, and are of particular value as a way of providing reliable
access to large downloads.
O
Open Source
Open source or open-source software (OSS)
is any computer software distributed under a license which allows users to
change and/or share the software freely. Many programs use a specific license
agreement satisfying the Open Source Definition.
P
PageRank
PageRank is a family of algorithms for assigning
numerical weightings to hyperlinked documents (or web pages) indexed by a
search engine. Its properties are much discussed by search engine
optimization (SEO) experts. The PageRank system is
used by the popular search engine Google to help determine a page's relevance
or importance. It was developed by Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin while at Stanford
University in 1998. As
Google puts it:
Perl
Perl, also Practical Extraction and Report Language, is a programming
language released by Larry Wall on December 18, 1987 that borrows features
from C, sed, awk, shell
scripting and from many other programming languages.
PHP
PHP is a widely-used open-source programming language primarily for
server-side applications and developing dynamic web content.
POP3
Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) is an application layer Internet
standard protocol used to retrieve email from a remote server to a local
client over a TCP/IP connection. Nearly all individual Internet service
provider email accounts are accessed via POP3.
Popunder
Pop-under ads are a form of online advertising that, spawns a new browser
window in the background.
Popup
Pop-up ads are a form of online advertising on the World Wide Web intended to
increase web traffic. It works when certain web sites open a new web browser
window to display advertisements. The pop-up window containing an
advertisement is usually generated by JavaScript, but can be generated by
other means as well. A less intrusive variation on the pop-up window is the
pop-under advertisement. This opens a new browser window, but in the
background, so as not to interrupt the user's page-view.
Portal
A portal is a web site that provides a starting point, a gateway, or portal,
to other resources on the Internet or an intranet. Intranet portals are also
known as "enterprise information portals" (EIP).
PPC
Pay per click, or PPC, is an advertising technique used on websites,
especially search engines. Pay per click advertisements are usually text ads
placed near search results; when a site visitor clicks on the advertisement,
the advertiser is charged a small amount. Variants include pay for placement
and pay for ranking. Pay per click is also sometimes known as Cost per click
or CPC.
PPL
Pay per lead, or PPL, is an ad pricing structure by which the advertiser pays
the publisher according to how many leads are generated by an ad, often
determined by information submitted directly into the banner ad.
PSA
A public service announcement or PSA is a non-commercial
"advertisement" for web sites.
R
Reciprocal Link
A reciprocal link is a mutual link between two objects, commonly between two
websites in order to ensure mutual traffic.
Referrer
When visiting a webpage, the referer (sic) or
referring page is the URL of the previous webpage from which a link was
followed. More generally, it is the URL of a previous item which led to this
request - the referer for an image, for example, is
generally the HTML page on which it is to be displayed. The referer is part of the HTTP request sent by the browser
program to the web server.
Robots.txt
The robots exclusion standard or robots.txt protocol is a convention to
prevent well-behaved web spiders and other web robots from accessing all or
part of a website. The information specifying the parts that should not be
accessed is specified in a file called robots.txt in the top-level directory
of the website.
Search Engine
A search engine is a program designed to help find files stored on a computer,
for example a public server on the World Wide Web, or one's own computer. The
search engine allows one to ask for media content meeting specific criteria
(typically those containing a given word or phrase) and retrieving a list of
files that match those criteria. A search engine often uses a previously
made, and regularly updated index to look for files after the user has
entered search criteria.
S
SEO
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a set of methodologies aimed at improving
the visibility of a website in search engine listings. The term also refers
to an industry of consultants that carry out optimization projects on behalf
of client sites.
SERP
SERP was chosen as the keyword for the initial competition, primarily due to
the fact it is an acronym for Search Engine Results Page. Not a well known
word, except by SEOs, this meant it was not a
particularly competitive target, allowing for the tracking of competing sites
to be reasonably easy.
Server
Server is a computer software application that carries out some task on
behalf of users. This is usually divided into file serving, allowing users to
store and access files on a common computer; and application serving, where
the software runs a computer program to carry out some task for the users.
This is the original meaning of the term. Web, mail, and database servers are
what most people access when using the internet.
Session ID
Session ID (Session Identifier) is a value generated by a server that
identifies a particular session.
SHTML
A file name extension that identifies web pages containing SSI commands.
SMTP
SMTP is a relatively simple, text-based protocol, where one or more
recipients of a message are specified (and in most cases verified to exist)
and then the message text is transferred. It is quite easy to test a SMTP
server using the telnet program. SMTP uses TCP port 25. To determine the SMTP
server for a given domain name, the MX (Mail eXchange)
DNS record is used.
Spam
Spamming is the use of any electronic communications medium to send
unsolicited messages in bulk. In the popular eye, the most common form of
spam is that delivered in e-mail as a form of commercial advertising.
However, over the short history of electronic media, people have done things
comparable to spamming for many purposes other than the commercial, and in
many media other than e-mail. In this article and those related, the term
spamming is used broadly to refer to all of these behaviors, regardless of
medium and commercial intent.
Spider
A spider is a program which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical,
automated manner. A web crawler is one type of bot.
Web crawlers not only keep a copy of all the visited pages for later
processing - for example by a search engine but also index these pages to
make the search narrower.
SQL
Structured Query Language (SQL) is the most popular computer language used to
create, modify and query databases.
SSI
Server Side Includes or SSI is a simple server-side scripting language used
almost exclusively for the web. As its name implies, its primary use is
including the contents of one file in another.
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which
provide secure communications on the Internet.
Static Page
Static Page is a standard web page using only HTML. Static pages do not
employ dynamic technologies (like PHP, ASP, Perl...), and have standard
URL's.
Subdomain
In the DNS hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that
is part of a larger domain name. A DNS hierarchy consists of the root-level
domain at the top, underneath which are the top-level domains, followed by
second-level domains and finally subdomains.
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TLD
A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of which Internet domain names
consist of. For example, in the domain name MyWebmasterIndex.com the
top-level domain is com (or COM, as domain names are not case-sensitive).
Toolbar
In a graphical interface on a computer monitor a toolbar is a row, column, or
block of onscreen buttons or icons that, when clicked, activate certain functions
of the program.
Traffic
Traffic is the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site.
This is determined by the number of visitors and the number of pages they
visit. Sites monitor the incoming and outgoing traffic to see which parts or
pages of their site are popular and if there are any apparent trends, such as
one specific page being viewed mostly by people in a particular country.
There are many ways to monitor this traffic and the gathered data is used to
help structure sites, highlight security problems or indicate a potential
lack of bandwidth – not all web traffic is welcome.
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Unique Visitors
Unique visitor is a real visitor to a web site. Web servers record the IP
addresses of each visitor, and this is used to determine the number of real
people who have visited a web site. If for example, someone visits twenty
pages within a web site, the server will count only one unique visitor
(because the page accesses are all associated with the same IP address) but
twenty page accesses.
Upload
When one computer sends information to another, it is called uploading.
URL
A Uniform Resource Locator, URL, or Web address, is a standardized address
for some resource (such as a document or image) on the Internet (or
elsewhere). First created by Tim Berners-Lee for use on the World Wide Web,
the currently used forms are detailed by IETF standard.
User Agent
A user agent is the client application used with a particular network
protocol; the phrase is most commonly used in reference to those which access
the World Wide Web. Web user agents range from web browsers to search engine
crawlers ("spiders"), as well as screen readers and braille browsers used by people with disabilities.
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Viral Marketing
Viral marketing and viral advertising refers to marketing techniques that
seek to exploit pre-existing social networks to produce exponential increases
in brand awareness, through processes similar to the spread of an epidemic.
Virtual Domain
Also seen as "redirecting URLs," a virtual domain is one that
exists in type, but not on an actual server. Popular redirecting services
(cjb.net, for example) will allow you to sign up for a virtual domain name of
your choice. This is useful if your actual URL is long and not easily
remembered. By typing in the redirecting URL of your choice, you are
automatically redirected by the service to your actual, longer URL.
Virtual Hosting
Virtual hosting is a method that web servers use to host more than one domain
name on the same computer and IP address.
W
Web Hosting
Web hosting is a service that provides Internet users with online systems for
storing information, images, video, or any content accessible via the web.
Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by
their clients.
Web Server
A Web Server is a computer on the World Wide Web (connected to the Internet
Backbone) that stores HTML documents that can be retrieved via a Web browser.
Whois
Whois is a protocol for submitting a query to a
database for determining the owner of a domain name, an IP network, or an
autonomous system number.
WML
Wireless Markup Language is the primary content format for devices that
implement the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) specification based on XML,
such as mobile phones.
WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, and is used in
computing to refer to the technology that makes sure the image seen on the
screen corresponds to what is printed out on paper. Today this is expected
for word processors but in other situations, like web (HTML) authoring, this
is not always the case.
X
XHTML
XHTML (short for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) is a markup language
that has the same expressive possibilities as HTML, but a stricter syntax.
Whereas HTML was an application of SGML, a very flexible markup language,
XHTML is an application of XML, a more restrictive subset of SGML. XHTML 1.0
became a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation on January 26, 2000.
XLL
Extensible Linking Language (XLL), second part of the W3C's XML specification
concerning hyperlinks. An XML extension used to insert links that can point
directly to a specific object (image, title, word, etc.) into a page.
XML
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C recommendation for creating special-purpose
markup languages. It is a simplified subset of SGML, capable of describing
many different kinds of data. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the
sharing of structured text and information across the Internet. Languages
based on XML (for example, RDF, RSS, MathML, XSIL
and SVG) are themselves described in a formal way, allowing programs to
modify and validate documents in these languages without prior knowledge of
their form.
XSL
The eXtensible Stylesheet
Language (XSL) is a set of language technologies for defining XML document
transformation and presentation
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