Webmaster dictionary

This is the most basic stuff that probobly you all know, but just to make sure i’m going to explain meaning of some words use by webmasters.

Domain name – for example wordpress.com is domain name, and developinternet.wordpress.com is domain name too, only here “developinternet” is subdomain. .com .net .org .info .us … these are top level domain names (TLD) and they can be registred true domain name registars (most popular is godaddy.com) and they cost around 10$. You have free domain names too, like dot.tk nic.co.sr nic.co.nr and much more, but i will explain that latter.

Hosting - place where you’r data is held, and shown to you’r visitors, free web hostings are usualy free blog services.

Bandwidth - Amount of transfered data, shown to you’r visitors.

Disk storage - is affcourse amaount of free space which you can fill with images, videos and any other data you like.

Content - data on your site making the site valuable source for visitors. These can be pictures, videos, text, music, anything can be web page content. Whatever people are interested in. More You have, more You update, better for You.

CPC - cost per click, advertiser pays some amount of money for every visitor you bring him. Cost per click means the advertisers payment is based on how many visitors/clicks you can bring him, its a price of a single click on a add.

CPM - cost per milenia, some rare ads when advertiser pays some money for 1000 views on your site, don’t matter how many clicks it generates. CPM ads that really pays have ratio about 0,2 – 0,5$ per 1000 ads placment.

PPC - pay per click, simple and most efective metod, where advertiser pays for generated traffic.

PFI - pay for inclusion, advertising model where webmaster pays search engine to crawl his web site more often.

FFA- free for all, web site providing a lot of usless links, humans don’t visit them and they are not important in Search engines algoritams.

PPI - blackhat way of earning money, ppi is short from Pay Per Install, usual it you would have to deal with adware, visit PPIMoney for more info.

robots.txt - is a file which well behaved spiders read to determine which parts of a website they shouldn’t visit.

CTA - Abbreviation for Content Targeted Ad(vertising) placment of PPC ads.

Afilliate - another way for webmasters to earn cash, this programs pay you money if you’r visitors buy/use products or services of company you are advertising.

Referral - eferral is someone who registers under your referral link to some program providing you % of their money for promoting them. Referral cuts are around 10% and are taken from programs revenue, not yours referral. In common webmaster language people registered through You’r link are so called downline.

SEO - Search Engine Optimization, after content second most valuable for you’r website is Optimize it for Google and other search engines.

Spider - robot or shorter bot it refers to software programs that scan the web. Bots vary in purpose from indexing web pages for search engines to harvesting e-mail addresses for spammers.

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