Glossary of Terms
Affiliate Program :
A program that allows other companies, or individuals, to market a company's products or services for a commission fee per item sold.
Blog :
Blog is short for weblog. Technically, a blog is a series of posts arranged in chronological order. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject, others function as more personal online diaries.
Classified Ads :
Classified advertising differs from standard advertising or business models in that it allows private individuals to solicit sales for products and services.
Domain Names:
Domain name is the sequence of letters and number determining the address of your site. A name that identifies a computer or computers on the internet. These names appear as a component of a Websites URL
Ebook :
An eBook is an electronic book, one you read digitally on your computer, laptop screen. It is often an electronic version of a previously published or printed book
Guru (Internet Guru) :
The word ‘guru’ in English is often used to describe an expert or a “know it all” in any given field. In the case of Internet Guru it is an individual who claims a high level of expertise in Internet Marketing and making money online.
Internet Scam:
A confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially. for making a quick profit, swindle, to cheat or defraud, deprive of by deceit using the Internet.
Online Marketing :
Internet marketing, also referred to as online marketing or Emarketing, is the marketing of products or services over the Internet.
Pay Per Click ( PPC ) :
This is a traffic generating method where a search engine or directory places your link in their searchable database and charges you a fee every time someone clicks on your link.
Safelists:
A safelist is a mailing list where all members can mail to each other. These emails cannot be considered as spam because every member has opted in and confirmed their email address.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) :
The act of optimizing a webpage and/or web site to perform well in the search engines The process of updating HTML code and choosing targeted keyword phrases related to a site, and ensuring that the site places well when those keywords are queried on search engines.
Traffic Exchange :
A traffic exchange is a type of website which provides a service for webmasters in exchange for traffic A traffic exchange website receives website submissions from webmasters that join traffic exchange networks The person who submitted the website then has to browse other member sites on the exchange program to earn credits, which enable their sites to be viewed by other members through the surf system. This increases the number of visitors to all the sites involved.
Web Hosting :
Web hosting refers to the process of publishing a web site so that it is available to the world on the Web. Paid web hosting also involves getting a domain name and not having forced ads displayed on your site.
Webmaster :
A webmaster is the designation given to the person responsible for designing and maintaining the coding and proper functioning of a website. In the case of a personal website, the webmaster is most often the person who owns the domain.
Website Promotion :
Website promotion is the continuing process to promote a website to bring
more visitors to the website. Many techniques such as web content development,
search engine
optimization (also known as SEO), and search engine submission, are used
increase the traffic to a site.