Search Engine Marketing

Glossary

The internet and its associated industries contain a bewildering number of specialist terms. From 'affiliate marketing' to 'web spider', the Momentum glossary gives definitions of the many and varied phrases related to search engine optimisation and online marketing. If you can’t find a definition for an internet-related word or phrase that is puzzling you, simply contact us and we will endeavour to help.

Adaptive content

Adaptive content integrates with a content management system, or CMS, to enable different content to be displayed on your website to different audiences.

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Affiliate marketing

An online advertising technique in which one company will pay another company (the affiliate) a small amount whenever a person clicks through to their site from the affiliate's site

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Agile development

Agile development is an approach used by web developers working on a large and complex project.

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Alt tags

Attached to images, 'alt' is an abbreviation of 'alternative', and refers to text information that was once designed to be shown instead of an image

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Analytics

Web analytics refers to the measurement, analysis and reporting of your website’s traffic.

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Avatar / Persona

Also known as 'persona', an 'avatar' in marketing is used to denote the way in which we paint a full and realistic picture of your customers.

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Back links

These are links from other sites that are pointing to a website, or specific web page

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Bid management

Advertisers using Google AdWords have to compete with other advertisers to be able to secure either the top position

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