Glossary

Absolute Link
A whole link that contains the domain name and extension of your website normally used when linking to other
websites.

Accessibility
Making your website accessible to everyone so it can be accessed by disabled people and also search engines.

AdWords
Sponsored advertising on Google using pay per click adverts to generate targeted traffic to your website.

Algorithm
Google's secret equation or criteria that it uses to analyze websites and define their search engine ranking position.

Alt Tags
Alt tags are used to describe the images on your websites to the search engines and screen readers.

Anchor Text
Text on a webpage that contains a hyperlink that directs you to another page.

Article
Information or news story containing a hyperlink to a relative site.

Back Link
Links from another website linking to your website with no return link.

Blog
A Weblog is an online diary containing information on a specific subject or person.

Browser
A program used to view websites. Examples: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera.

Cached Page
Copy of a web page stored within a search engines database.

Campaign
A group of AdWords ad groups in your Google AdWords PPC account.

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
An external style sheet used to control the design and look of a website.

Content
The information and text contained within a website.

Conversion Rate
The percentage of traffic viewing your website that then leads to a sale or purchase.

CPC
the cost incurred or price paid for a click through to your Adwords landing page

CTR
The percentage of time your ad is clicked on compared to how often it is shown.

Directory
A website displaying a list of other websites that are separated into specific categories.

Domain name
The name of your website. For Example www.cravenplan.co.uk

Dreamweaver
Software used for designing and editing web pages.

Dynamic Website
The content is created dynamically from a database instead of being stored in a static web page.

External Links
Links from your website to other websites.

Flash
Technology that uses a free plug-in to allow your browser to display animations and flash movies.

Form
Used to collect information from your visitors and send it to a specified predetermined location.

Forum
A place where users can share information and discuss various topics.

Frames
Outdated technology used to create websites.

Froogle
A product search engine that displays photos and product information relating to search phrases.

Header Tags
An HTML tag that is often used to denote a page or section heading on a web page.

Home Page
The main page on your website also known as the index or default page.

Hosting Provider
A company that provides space on their server to enable you to make your website accessible to all on the World Wide
Web.

Human Computer Interaction
The way humans interact with what is displayed on a webpage.

HTML Hyperlink
A link that when clicked on will display the website specified in the link.

Internal Links
Links that allow users to navigate to other parts of your website.

KEI
Keyword Effectiveness Index-This number is calculated using the number of times a search phrase is queried
compared to the competition for that search phrase. The higher the number the more effective that search phrase will
be.

Key Words/Key Phrases
The key words and search phrases targeted when optimizing your website.

Keyword Competition
The number of companies targeting a specific keyword phrase that you want to target.

Landing Page
The page you have designed specifically for PPC and will deliver your visitors to.

Link Farm
A large quantity of websites that all link to each other to gain links back for the process of spamming the search
engines.

Meta Description
The description shown in the search engines to describe your website.

Meta Tags
The tags used to describe your website to the search engines.

Meta Titles
The tag shown in the search engines to describe your website and also shown at the top of the page.

Natural/Organic Listings
The results shown in Google below the paid for sponsored links.

Off Page Optimisation
The optimisation of links and content on other websites that relate to your website.

Online Competition
The top listed websites for your chosen keywords.

On Page Optimisation
The optimisation of your website's content, links and html code.
Page Rank
The Page Rank Google gives your webpage depending on the quantity and quality of your inward links.

PPC (Sponsored Listings)
The pay-for-performance pricing model where advertising cost is priced based on the number of clicks rather than the
number of times shown. These adverts are displayed within the search engines and on other websites.

Reciprocal Link
When you link to another website in exchange for a link back to your website from the site you're linking to.

Sandbox
Term used to describe the effects seen with new websites in Googles search results.

SEO
Search engine optimisation, the process of optimising your websites content with the aim to appear higher for the
natural search engine listings.

Search Engine
Internet Search Engines help users find web pages related to their specified search term.

Spiders/Bots
The program search engines send out to crawl the web by going from website to website via links.

Sitemap
A page on your website that includes a list to all of the pages on your website to enable good navigation.

Site Submission
The process of submitting your website to the search engines.

Source Code
The code used to create your website and the code analysed by the search engines.

Spamming
Any technique used to falsely try to increase a websites position in the search engines.

Split testing
The testing of ads or landing pages against each other to increase efficiency.

Static website
A website is updated manually via the use of software or HTML.

Traffic
The amount of visitors and search engine spiders to your website over a given amount of time.

URL
Uniform resource locator. The address of a page on a website that identifies it on the World Wide Web.

Web Page
Page contained within a website.