If you or your business are entering the world of digital marketing, it’s important to be familiar with and understand the lingo. If you’re not so new, there’s always a lot changing in the digital marketing space, and brushing up on your terminology is necessary for your business to stay on the cutting edge. Get informed with these need-to-know digital marketing terms.
- Acquisition – when a website visitor becomes a customer or produces a lead.
- Content Marketing – any text, image, audio or video produced for an online audience to obtain a new customer or sale.
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization) – a collection of strategies and techniques used to increase the amount of website visitors through search engines. This includes selecting the best keyword or phrase for your website page content and a series of ‘back-end’ work such as developing metadescriptions for your page content and images.
- Impressions – the amount of people who have come into contact with your website, tweet, advertisement, etc.
- Social Media Marketing – advertisements created and shown on social media platforms to redirect target audience to a website.
- Conversion Rate – the amount of users who take the desired action of the advertisement.
- SEM (Search Engine Marketing) – blogging, keywords, etc. Actions taken to influence SEO.
- Keyword – word or short phrase used on websites to increase SEO by relevance to what the customer is searching for.
- Organic Search – search engine results that appear because of the actual search terms and not because of boosted or paid marketing.
- CPA (Cost Per Acquisition)- online marketing tactic used by advertisers paying for each acquisition.
- Referral Traffic – Often viewed in Google Analytics, it shows how many visitors from your site visited and where from.
- Bounce Rate – the website visitors who stray away from the site after only viewing one page.
- Segmentation – a marketing strategy that divides a broad target audience into a subcategory with similar interests or needs.
- Responsive Design – website development focused on being user-friendly and adaptable no matter the device used to view it. This is especially relevant for websites viewed on mobile phones and tablets.
- Sentiment – the tone of a certain market based on price representation.
- Customer Persona – a tool used to create strategic content that appeals to your target audience based on their interests and demographics.
- LTV (Lifetime Value) – the prediction of the net profit that will potentially contribute to the future relationship with a customer.
- Landing Page – the page of a website that was accessed by clicking on a link from a different website, typically focused on a specific message or call to action. It can be used to capture leads and to send people deeper into your website.
- A/B Testing – tool used to compare two versions of your website or email newsletter to see which one has a higher performance. For email marketing, you may want to test subject lines, list segments, or time of day the email is sent. For websites, you may test different landing pages.
- Hyperlink – a link from a hypertext file or document that leads to another location or file.
- Local SEO – targeting search engine optimization to a specific geographic region, using tools such as Get Local Listed.
- Mobile App – a software application designed for smaller wireless and mobile devices, typically used to increase customer retention, brand loyalty, or higher conversion rates.
- Marketing Automation – software that assists in automating marketing actions, usually used in email marketing and social media marketing.
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