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Internet Marketing Acronyms



Being that we work in an industry defined by acronyms (SEO, PPC) and have trouble sometimes determining the difference between SEO and SEM, SEM and PPC, or PPC and CPC; over at DP, KP started a thread listing SEO acronyms which I feel are quite useful (espcially for newbies or prepping before a meeting) and worth sharing. I took the liberty of adding a few of my own as well.

  1. BL = Backlink
  2. CPC = Cost Per Click
  3. CSE = Comparison Shopping Engine or Custom Search Engine (Google)
  4. CSS = Cascading Style Sheet
  5. DC = Data Center
  6. DMOZ = Directory - Mozilla
  7. HTML = HyperText Markup Language
  8. IBL = Inbound Link
  9. IPB9 = Internet Business Promoter
  10. LSA = Latent semantic analysis
  11. LSI = Latent Semantic Indexing
  12. OBL = Outbound Link
  13. ODP = Open Direcrory Project, See DMOZ
  14. OWBL = One way back link
  15. PPA = Pay Per Action
  16. PPC = Pay Per Click
  17. PR = PageRank
  18. RI = Regular index
  19. RSS = RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication
  20. SE = Search Engine
  21. SEM = Search Engine Marketing
  22. SEO = Search Engine Optimization (Optimisation)
  23. SERP = Search Engine Results Page
  24. SI = Supplemental Index
  25. SSE = Yahoo! Search Submit Express
  26. SSP = Yahoo! Search Submit Pro
  27. SWL = SiteWide Link
  28. TBPR = Toolbar PageRank
  29. TR = Trust Rank
  30. VIPS = Visual-block Page Segmentation
  31. WP/WP4 = Web Position/Web Position 4
  32. XML = Extensible Markup Language
  33. TLA = Text Link Ads
  34. GWO = Google Website Optimizer
  35. PFL (Paid For Listings)
  36. P4P (Paid For Placement)
  37. CTR (Click Through Rate)
  38. CPM (Cost Per thousand)
  39. CPA (Cost Per Action)
  40. SMM - Social Media Marketing
  41. SMO - Social Media Optimization
  42. GAP = Google Advertising Professional
  43. LPO: Landing Page Optimization
  44. GWT: Google Webmaster Tools
  45. CMS: Content Management System

Have I missed anything? Be sure to share your favorite SEO acronyms in the coments below:)


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