The part of a web page that is visible without any scrolling. This is prime advertising space.
A partner of sorts that promotes your products and services in exchange for a set bounty for sending traffic or a share in revenue. Also known as a "publisher"
A business that sells primarily to other businesses
A business that sells primarily to end consumers
Can mean either the percentage of emails that are returned to the sender or the number of people who visit a site or specific page who proceed no further; usually also expressed as a percentage.
The process by which a business employs marketing strategies to get people to easily remember their products and services over a competitors.
What it costs you to gain a sale or subscriber. If you spend $100 on advertising and gain 10 sales, then your cost of acquisition is $10 per sale.
The percentage of people who take a desired action, usually involving a sale
Information stored on a user's computer for the purpose of tracking activity on a site or for personalizing content.
Where payment is made based on a specified action such as sales or subscription
This is the way that banners, pop ups and pop under ads are often sold. Why the "M"? M is the Roman numbers equivalent of "one thousand".
Advertiser payment based on site visitors executing a desired response e.g. subscription, survey completed, download or sale.
What it costs to have individual visitors sent to your site. In a CPM model example, if you pay $5 for 1000 impressions and an average of 10 people click through for each 1000 impression, then your CPC would be $5 per visitor under that campaign.
A rather impersonal way to describe people who visit your site or view an advertisement.
Limit on the number of times a single visitor see a certain advertisement, or the number of times an ad is generally served.
Hit is a flexible term. It can be used to describe a person visiting a site, or the number of requests to a server for an item of information - a page, an image. Each web page is made up of a number of items, so one visitor requesting a page will generate a number of hits as all the elements are loaded. It's very important that you ensure the person who uses the term to clarify what they mean by "hit".
If you're wanting to advertise on a site, they may entice you by saying that the site gets, for example, 300,000 hits a month - this may only translate into 1,000 unique visitors.
A composite of a number of advertising strategies under the same campaign e.g, CPC and CPM.
A single display of an advertisement. 100 displays equals 100 impressions. Impressions are usually sold in lots of 1 thousand.
A web site that gives some kind of reward for visitors who click on a link or fill out a form on an advertising partners site. Be very careful in using incentives sites to promote your products as they can generate a lot of garbage traffic and wasted advertising dollars.
An important word or phrase in relation to a topic that people search on.
The number of times a specific word or phrase appears on a page; usually expressed as a percentage.
A page designed as a point of entry to help generate sales or subscriptions. Usually connected to a specific marketing campaign
A type of banner, 728x90 pixels in size
The number of inbound links, i.e. those pointing into a site.
A section of a web site that demonstrates to potential advertisers the potential and user demographics of the site.
Sections of source code not seen in normal browser viewing that contain information about the page. Important in search engine optimization.
Traffic that isn't paid for; e.g. via free search engine listings
A specific request by a visitor for subscription to an ezine etc. Double opt-in means that not only does the visitor need to initially subscribe, but also confirms the subscription request. Genuine double opt-in mailing lists provide the best targeted advertising responses.
Basically, just as it states - a single view of a web page.
Marketing based on consent from a site visitor to receive promotional information.
Very popular on paid placement search engines now. Instead of paying for the number of times an ad is viewed, you only pay for clicks on the ad. PPC is an example of performance based advertising.
A payment made based on an action such as someone filling in an advertiser's contact form or survey. Term is rarely used these days.
Payment made based on a successful financial transaction occurring.
Information on advertising rates on a particular site.
An arrangement between two site owners to link to each others site.
The margin gained from a particular marketing strategy, e.g. a $500 ad campaign that returns $650 has an ROI of $150.
Many sites are members of a larger network. This option allows you to purchase ad space on all member site.
An advertisement running on many pages on a web site, not confined to a particular section.
Covers a variety of aspects of site promotion via search engines including PPC and SEO
The process of refining a site for the purposes of boosting search engine rankings
Someone that performs optimization services for other site owners on a contract basis
Vertical banner, usually around the 120x600 pixel mark.
A page that usually makes an artistic statement, contains little content and leads to the main area of the site.
The ability to hold the attention of web site visitors and to keep them returning to your web site.
Another flexible term. Unique Visitors refers to a single person who visits your web site in a set space of time, usually 24 hours. If a person visits your web site 3 times in a 24 hour period, they would only count as 1 unique. This is another statistic that needs to be clarified with the company who is quoting it - their time frame for "uniqueness" may be as little as one hour and that will inflate their statistics dramatically.
A marketing technique that encourages visitors to pass along a sales message, usually by giving away something for free.