Learning The Lingo
It goes without really saying the internet has spawned a whole new vocabulary which (if you want to make sense of it all) and when I first started online it became obvious very quickly I needed to learn the lingo - and you will need to learn too.
In an online business you need to get familiar with a lot of words.
There are literally thousands of words which relate to online business and the internet. I’m not going to list them all here, however I am going to give you some words which you will need to get to know. (Just click the links to get their wikipedia definitions) Words like:
Blog - A portmanteau of web log
RSS - Really Simple Syndication
SEO - Seach Engine Optimisation
Affiliate Marketing
Adsense
Adwords
Keywords
Social Bookmarking
Viral Marketing
Meta Tags
Web 2.0
Anchor Text
Backlinks
Web Spider - Also known as a bot or crawler
Keyword Density
Link Popularity
LPO - Landing Page Optimization
SERPS - Search Engine Results Page
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