If you’re new to the digital marketing world, you may not be familiar with the jargon that comes with it, particularly the acronyms. To help you catch up, we’ve put together a short glossary that’ll help – and keep you from continually searching for definitions as you read posts.
Acronyms
- A/B testing – running concurrent marketing campaigns to measure which one performs better.
- CPA – Cost per acquisition. Pricing model based on companies being charged only when leads, sales or conversions are generated.
- CPC – Cost per click. A pricing model that charges companies for every click a user makes on an ad that leads them to your website or landing page.
- CPM – Cost per thousand. Helpful for increasing brand awareness, companies are charged according to the number of times its ad appears per 1,000 impressions.
- CTR – Click-through rate. Reports the percentage of people who click in relation to the number of impressions.
- Meta Description – The first few lines of text that appear on a SERP.
- RSS – Really simple syndication. Technology that lets people become content subscribers and get automatic alerts for updates via an RSS reader such as Feedly.
- SEM – Search engine marketing. Companies bid on search terms in order to get higher placement on search engines.
- SEO – Search engine optimization. Optimizing a webpage with keywords to rank higher on SERPs, which results in more targeted traffic.
- SERP – Search engine results page. The list of results that appear on a search engine, such as Google, after a query is made.
Digital Marketing Terms
- Backlinks provide a link from one specific website or page to another. Quality back links can increase your website’s SEO standing.
- Conversion is when a visitor to your site takes a desired action, such as email sign-up, a purchase, etc.
- Impressions defines the number of times your page or ad appears to your targeted audience. For example – one visitor viewing five pages would create 5 impressions.
- Keywords are the single terms or phrases your potential leads use to search for information.
- Keyword stuffing is a now discouraged – and unhelpful – practice of using too many keywords in content to gain viewers. Stick to valuable, relevant content.
- Landing pages on a website are optimized to be the first page visitors see when they arrive at your site.
- Organic traffic is traffic generated by a search engine such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing to your website. It’s free traffic, making it the best traffic to strive for.
- Paid traffic includes paid advertisements that point directly to your website, or keywords your brand has bid on that appear in ads to be displayed on search engines.
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