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Making Money Online: Glossary

1. Affiliate Marketing: Online business model where the revenue is shared between publisher and merchant, where compensation is made based on performance measure such as leads generation, sales, and etc.

2. Affiliate network: A network of merchants and affiliate marketers.

3. Anchor text: Clickable text in a hyperlink which is visible to visitors. Also referred to as text link.

4. Autoresponder: A web application that sent out automated email message to subscribers or members such as subscription confirmation, newsletters and etc.

5. Bandwidth: Denotes the data transmission of a service, measured in bps (bits per second). Nowaday, this amount as increased a lot and can be known as MB, GB or TB (mega bytes (1024 x 8 bits), giga bytes (1024 x 1024 mega bytes), tera bytes (1024 x 1024 giga bytes))

6. Click through rate (CTR): The ratio of clicks on the number of times the ad or email is viewed (click/view).

7. Conversion rate: The rate of which the click through is converted into actual sales or actions (sale/click).

8. Cookies: Small files that collects information about visitor, such as date, time, username and etc.

9. Drop Shipping: Online business model where the individual orders is shipped by the supplier directly to the end-user.

10. eZine: Standard electronic version of magazine or newsletter distributed on the internet.

11. HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language): “Programming language” designed to create webpage.

12. IP Address (Internet Protocol Address): Numeric address used to identified each computer that is connected to the internet.

13. Keyword: A word or keyword phrase that is relevant to a targeted group of audience or niche.

14. Link exchange: Swapping links between two websites. Also known as reciprocal linking. This can improve visibility in the search engine and increase page rank.

15. Opt In: The consumer voluntarily choose to allow the webmaster to collect and disseminate information.

16. Page rank: A measure of quality back links and relevancy of a website (by Google) .

17. Podcast: Video or audio files posted on website that can be downloaded for playback.

18. RSS (Rich Site Summary): Distributing and sharing content among different sites. Serve as alerts on new information on a syndicated website, blogs and other internet services.

19. Server: Computer station used primarily to store and share files over a network, at the same time, allowing clients access to the files.

20. Squeeze page: Landing page that collect opt-in emails from prospective subscribers.

21. URL (Universal Resource Locator): World Wide Web address to locate a website.

22. Viral marketing: An effective marketing effort that propagates itself. Recipients are encouraged to pass along the marketed message.

23. Web hosting: Data storage space that is accessible via the internet, collections of websites hosted on web servers.

24. Webmaster: Individual who is responsible to administering, updating and maintaining a website.

25. WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get): generally means that what you see on the monitor screen is the same that will appear as the final output, be it a webpage, hard copy print out and etc.

Advertising on your blog, why isn’t it working?

It hasn’t took long until I felt I knew pretty much everything about advertising online. With the number of e-book on the subject accessible online as well as in hard-covered book you get at a bookstore, you soon realise that everything comes down to a single aspect: Content. NO, I won’t be talking about content in this post cause I’m sure that if you’ve read my previous articles, you understand what you have to do with content. Instead, I’ll tell you why people aren’t coming to your website and why you’re not getting a high CTR.

Traffic

  • You offer what others offer, thus not being unique
  • You don’t have a good SE placement
  • You have a good SE placement for “random” keywords, keywords that don’t (if ever) get searched
  • You’re not frequently spidered, thus your website not so often updated -> No new content = No No
  • You do not have enough content to attract the masses > More content = More visitor

CTR

  • You have a too broad niche, thus the advertisement on the page doesn’t match the subject
  • Your articles are not calling to action (enough)
  • The subject you’re writing is not meant for advertisement, ex: cows
  • You have bad ad placement (did you know that ads in the middle of the page don’t work as good as you thought?)
  • The ad format is not good (ugly banner work best, they kill ad blindness)

How to improve? Well, do (or get) the opposite of every line and you should get a really better result.