The internet industry, website technology and web services in general can encompass a huge range of new or previously unheard terminologies, references and acronyms. If you’re new to conducting business online or you’re starting to invest in online marketing and search engine optimisation techniques and strategies we have started to collate a list / glossary of popular website terminology and acronyms used by professionals and those of us who are familiar with talking all things web.
We’ve categorised the glossary and website terminology to further help you in understanding which circumstances the acronyms, references and terms are used.
Websites
Domain – the name of your website e.g. ending in .co.nz or .com etc
Hosting – your website is hosted on a server which is usually held at a website hosting company
Website Platform – the name given to the underlying technology a website is built on or using
WP (WordPress) – name of the most popular website platform used to build websites
eCommerce – conducting business online
Online Marketing & Advertising
PPC – pay-per-click advertising
CPC – cost-per-click
SMM – social media marketing
Blog – a page or section on a website which is used for posting new and regular content and updates
Content Marketing – a term used to describe the actions of marketing your website content using social media platforms and networks such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Google+
RSS – rich site summary – a web feed used to frequently publish updated information
Search Engine Terms
SEO – search engine optimisation
SEM – search engine marketing
Black-hat – a term given to search engine optimisation techniques and strategies which are against Google’s search engine policy
White-hat – a term given to search engine optimisation techniques and strategies which are within Google’s search engine policy
Grey-hat – a term given to search engine optimisation techniques and strategies which are questionable for or against Google’s search engine policy
Web Tools
GA – Google analytics (website statistics and marketing)
MOZ – an online tool for analysing website statistics and identifying opportunities
E-commerce
mCommerce – mobile commerce / conducting business online using mobile phones and other wireless handheld devices
We will continue to add to this post, please check back at a later date for more terms or if you have any to suggest please get in touch.
