Skip to main content

Digital Marketing Terminology

The new age advertising happens on screens; viz; laptops and mobiles. Smartphone and Internet together fulfills every wish of yours. If you are doing business you need to reach to people’s devices. Often we hear different terms related advertising on internet and sometime found ourselves naïve. To help business owners and learners I gathered digital marketing terms from different sources and put those here. Hope you readers will enjoy reading across this page and leverage your knowledge.

Analytics: Also called Web Analytics Tools. This is data analysis based on people’s online behavior for example use of websites on mobile apps. This method is used for improvement of web properties and marketing campaigns.

App (Application): This is a program designed to work on small screens like mobiles and tabs.
Banner Ad: This is form of advertisement, websites and apps display normally display in image format.

Blog: This is very much like an online diary. A blog could be personal or professional or a private blog. With rise of IoT niche blogging is on the rise. Also a blog could be multi niche blog.

Browser: A browser is like driving engine to IoT. This helps us in viewing information on Internet. Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari are some frequently used browsers.

Clickthrough Rate (CTR): This is the number of clicks an ad receive on Internet in comparison to the number of times that page is viewed.

Content: The information available in form text, graphics, video or audio etc.

Conversion or Goal: You need action from your audience on your web properties. This number of times people do an action on your website is called conversion or goal.

Conversion Optimization:
These are tricks to attract visitors on your web pages to achieve your goals.

Conversion Rate: This is the ratio of conversion to visitors.

Cost per Click: The money required to generate a click on a digital ad.

Crawler or Spider:
This is a computer program that help internet surfers in finding the right information.

Desktop: Common term used for Personal Computer or Laptop.

Ecommerce: The trading of goods and services online. Amazon is leader in this field.

Email Marketing: This is method to promote goods and services.

Home Page: The Introductory page of a website through which you know all about it and further can navigate to internal pages.

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language): This is name of computer language web developers to make websites.

Impressions:
The number of times an advertisement is displayed.

Index: This is catalogue of a website used by search engines to render relevant results.

Keyword: This could be word or phrase used by internet searchers to find information. Business can make use of keywords for advertising campaigns.

Landing Page: The first page a website that viewers usually see; this could be home page or a different page.

Link: The text or image clicking on which a visitor navigate to a new page.

Mobile Device: A portable device like smartphone or tablet, capable of connecting to the Internet and running applications.

Natural Listings or Organic Listings Results: These are results from a search engine that are not paid advertisements.

Paid Listings Advertisements: This is method in which digital content owner pay to search engines to display content on search result pages or as suggestions etc.

Pay Per Click (PPC) An advertising method in which advertisers pay for users to click on their ads.

Query or Search Term: The keyword or phrase a user types into a search engine’s search box.

Ranking: A listing’s position on a search engine results page.

Search Engine: This is an internet tool which indexes and returns relevant digital content in response to users’ searches. Some examples of Internet search engines are Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Baidu,Yandex etc.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO): The method or presenting content to search engine so it may show the same to user in response to a related search term. SEO of web properties is done to gain organic traffic.

Search Engine Marketing (SEM): This is a method of advertising which help you to bid for your ad to display along with search results for keywords that people are looking for. SEM helps in getting quick traffic and most often used by businesses.

Search Engine Results Page (SERP): This is list of results displayed on search result pages in response to a typed keyword in a search engine.

Session or Visit: The interactions that happen on your website in a given time duration.

Social Media Content: This is terms for shared content on internet.

Social Network: A group of people creating and sharing content.

Traffic Acquisition: The method to attract visitors on a website, mobile app or other web properties.

Unique Visitor: A single visitor to a website in a given period of time.

URL or Uniform Resource Locator: The unique address of a page or digital content on the Internet.

Source: Google Digital Marketing Course, Wikipedia.Org, Dictionary.com

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

How to get quality traffic on a single page website that converts

Single page website? Not a bad idea. May be you want to sell your products online. You can not write too much as you are too busy in creating and modifying your product. And you need to travel a lot for promotions. Outsourcing could be one of the answer but if your budget is tight then hiring a freelancer may drain your money. And writing regular blog post would be tough. In such a situation one page website can serve the purpose. It will be easy to update especially if its cms based may be like wordpress for example. Its one page website with simple product picture, detailed description, ways to order and customer review. You are not tech savvy and don't want to invest too much on website's geeky things. One page is enough for you. Its doable, but without traffic how will you generate online sales. That is the question right? I said quality traffic that converts and make your bank account numbers increase. After all you mean sales. Its a good idea that you want to focus on you...

Cofolios help design interns in getting hired

Are you design Intern and looking for your first job? Submit your Folio now Cofolios Design App Cofolios is an app developed by Hasque to help design interns in getting hired. The Cofolios showcase design intern intern portfolios at top tech companies. Employers can see the interns working with a technology company simply by opening Cofolios website. At the time of writing this article its showcasing design interns of Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Intuit, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. You can get this app from ProductHunt

Why to hire human copywriter when AI can do the job

Good question, that many many many zombies throw at me when I discuss Copywriting. Of course Copywriting is not for zombies. If you are a person or company who has hired a Copywriter to make money then do not hire. Your goal is survival and not zoom or use change as an opportunity. Your question is pretty similar: why drink water when I have sweetlime tree in the backyard and a juicer in the kitchen. However, if you are a professional, business person, company or someone looking to make a change then a Copywriter is worth hiring. Why? If you are a beginner and truly stuck between thoughts of hiring a writer or going with AI, my suggestion is Go with both. Chose a human to use tools, chose a Copywriter to write and encourage him to use AI in creating copy. AI connects you with libraries worldwide and presents data in certain formats. It cannot add human touch. AI can not differentiate between good and bad, AI does not know who is your audience. A Copywriter can seek help from AI to fetc...