Technical terms

There are a number of technical terms and abbreviations in the field of marketing and advertising that it can be useful to have explained. Here is an overview of abbreviations, words and terms in advertising and marketing.

A

AdWords

Affiliate marketing

Ad design

Algorithm

AMP – Accelerated Mobile Page

Anchor text

A/B Testing

Alt text

B

B2C – Business to customer (Customer)

B2B – Business to business

Branding

Bing search engine

Image search

Ease of use (UI)

Black hat SEO

Blog

Breadcrumbs – Breadcrumbs

Backlinks

Bounce Rate: Bounce rate

C

CRO (Conversion rate optimization)

CRM – Customer relationship management system

CSS

CMS

Core Web Vitals

Canonical tag

CTR: Click through rate (Click through rate)

CTA: Call to action

CR: Conversion rate

CPC (Cost per click)

CPA (Cost per Action)

CPM: Cost Per Mille

D

Data-driven marketing

Digital education

Digital communication

DM – Direct Mail – Advertising in the mailbox

Dropshipping

Digital strategy

Differentiated marketing

Design

E

Employer branding

Email marketing

E-A-T Content

F

Consumer behavior

Business development

Progress plan

FTP

G

GDPR

Ghostwriter

Graphic design

Googlebot

Google search

GA4: Google Analytics 4

GSC: Google Search Console

GTM: Google tag manager

GA: Google Analytics

H

HDR

Hashtag (hashtag)

H1 tag

HTML

HTTPS

I

Identity

Content analysis

Internal competing pages

Internal linking

Indexing of pages

Content marketing

Inbound marketing

Information cookies (cookies)

K

Communication strategy

Purchase funnel

Cold leads

Conversion

Customer segments

Customer loyalty

Customer value

Competitor analysis

Artificial intelligence

Customer journey

Customer Satisfaction

KPI – Key Performance Indicator

L

Loyalty program

Lead scoring

Lead nurturing

Profitability

Long tail keyword

Landing page

Lead generation

Leads: MQL and SQL

M

Brand awareness

Merkel loyalty

Marketing mix

Marketing strategy

Media plan

Market plan

Micro level

Macro level

Brand building

Target group

Measurement of results

Meta description

Meta title

N

Online store supplier

Newsjacking

Noindex tag

O

Outbound marketing

Organic search

P

Positioning strategy

PPC

Publication plan

Publishing platform

Programmatic advertising

R

Relationship marketing

Rebranding

Remarketing

ROAS

Robots.txt

Responsive design

ROI: Return of investment

S

Sales and marketing activities

SoMe – Social media

SEO for 2024

SEO tools

Short tail keywords

Security updates

Keyword

SERP

Segmentation

SEO

Search engine

Strategy

Sitemap.xml

Keyword cannibalization

Page structure (SEO)

SSL certificate

Structured data

Search intent

T

TikTok

Tone of voice

Top of mind

U

URL structure

UI design (User Interface)

Undifferentiated marketing

UX (User experience)

Universal design

Clipping tools

V

Hot leads

W

Web hosting

Web Crawling

White hat SEO

WebPageTest

Y

YMYL: Your Money Your Life