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.

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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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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Black hat SEO

An umbrella term for the use of illegal, unethical, deceptive or banned (by search engines) techniques

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CMS or Content Management System

In the context of websites, a Content Management System allows website owners and administrators to upload content to their website without any need for technical knowledge of html or any

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CRM system

CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management

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