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Digital marketing & website development lists of ideas, links and resources

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Meta descriptions

Page meta descriptions refer to an HTML tag on a webpage that search engines use as the description on search results.

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Exit rate

A webpage's exit rate is the rate at which visitors who are on the website leave that specific page to go elsewhere.

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Audience insights

Audience insights is a Facebook ad tool that helps you select and target specific groups of people for your ad.

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Facebook Live

Facebook offers a "Facebook Live" video feature that users can leverage to live stream directly to other users on the platform.

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Feature snippets

Feature snippets refers to content that Google pulls from your website to display directly on search engine result pages. There are different types of snippets such as quick answers, lists and more.

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Algorithm

An algorithm refers to a software program or function that performs a specific function, such as Google search's algorithm which takes in a search query and returns a list of results.

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Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free software platform that can be added to your website to track visitor data.

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Google Business Profile

Google Business Profile (formerly "My Business") can be leveraged by business owner's to display helpful information about your business (e.g. location, hours, services) in SERPs.

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Google Search Console

Google Search Console is a free tool that website owners can use to submit their websites and website sitemaps for faster page indexing, and review search engine metrics.

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Sitemap

A sitemap is a list of URLs belonging to a website. A visual representation of a sitemap might be just a list of text links on a webpage. A search engine-friendly sitemap is an XML file that should include all URLs and be submitted to search engines for indexing.

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Indexing

Indexing is the process of a search engine adding a URL to their database of pages.

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SSL

An SSL certificate (represented by HTTPS in a full URL of a webpage) protects and encrypts the data shared on a webpage. They used to be a security upgrade, but today it's expected that all sites have an active certificate.

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Keyword density

Keyword density refers to the number of times a certain keyword or keyword phrase appears on a webpage compared to the page's total words.

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Long-tail keywords

Long-tail keywords are an SEO strategy that refer to longer versions of main keywords that you'd like to target. For example, it would be very difficult to rank highly for "cookie", but it would likely be much easier to rank for a phrase such as "cookie tins for holiday parties".

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Keyword research

Keyword research refers to the practice of identifying best keywords to target based on competition, volume of searches and relevancy to your business.

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Related keywords

A good SEO strategy is to target related keywords instead of just one main keyword. This would mean that you'd use synonyms for your keyword in your content instead of just repeating your main word. This strategy helps to add authenticity to your post as well as expand the number of queries the page might rank for.

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Leads

Leads are prospects who have taken the next step toward becoming a paying customer by indicating at least some level of interest.

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Prospects

Prospects are potential customers. They haven't necessarily indicated any interest (yet) in your products or services, but they meet the criteria for your target audience.

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Link profile

The link profile refers to a website's backlinks and the sites they're coming from. If a site's link profile contains other high-quality sites, then it will be looked at more favorably by search engines then if it contains low quality, spammy sites.

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Local SEO

Local SEO refers to search engine optimization for local businesses. It's the process of marketing your website to users looking for local solutions (i.e. pizza delivery near me).

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Meta tags

Meta tags are HTML tags added to websites and used by search engines and social media websites for descriptions and images.

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Mobile advertising

Mobile advertising refers to targeting mobile devices with paid ads via SMS, websites or applications.

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Mobile-first indexing

For users performing search queries on mobile devices, Google keeps a mobile index of webpages and uses that to return results. If a webpage displays well on larger, desktop devices but not on smaller, mobile devices then the page likely won't rank as well on mobile searches.

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Niche marketing

Niche marketing refers to marketing activities performed on small, extremely targeted groups of your audience.

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PPC

Pay-per-click (PPC) is a paid advertising campaign type that charges the advertiser every time a click is performed on one of their ads.

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Position

A position on a search engine results page is where the search result is currently ranked for a specific query.

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Optimization score

An optimization score is a Google Ads metric that is updated regularly based on how well Google determines that your ad is set up.

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Referral traffic

A website can receive referral traffic by leveraging their network of customers, partners and employees to send traffic to their website.

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Robots.txt

The robots.txt file is a text file that websites should contain to communicate how web crawlers are to use your site - free to crawl, only allowed to crawl certain page, or not allowed to crawl at all.

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Schema markup

Schema markup or metadata refers to HTML or JSON used to add context to your webpages for search engines. They help to identify the content contained within a webpage and are often used in feature snippets.

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JSON

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a text format often used in data storage.

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Search network

The search network refers to the group of websites that have enabled Google Ads to appear on their sites.

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Search operators

Search operators allow you to perform smart searches on Google by querying for exact phrases, removing negative keywords, searching specific domains, and more.

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Session

A session starts when a user visits a website and ends when the user leaves. A session remains alive, even between pages, as long as the user is still active on the website.

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Technical SEO

Technical SEO refers to the optimizations made to the website's server and code to make webpages more search engine-friendly.

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Snippets

Snippets typically refers to small sections of code that are added to websites to enable advanced functionalities such as tracking and analytics, lead generation or other functionalities.

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Time on page

The time on page refers to the amount of a time that a visitors remains on a webpage before moving away or closing the tab.

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Title tag

The title is an HTML tag that can be set on an individual webpage to set the text in the browser tab for the page. It is also used by search engine's to set the header of a search result.

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Unique value proposition

A unique value proposition describes what makes a certain product or service the best choice for the user.

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Webinar

A webinar is like an online seminar. It's typically a live, online video presentation where the audience can ask questions to the presenter.

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Wireframe

A wireframe is used in the website development process as a draft of the proposed design for the site or specific pages.

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Click map

A click map refers to a geographic representation of where visitors click on your webpage.

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Competitive analysis

Competitive analysis refers to the process of researching and analyzing your companies competitors - strengths, weaknesses, demographics, strategies and more.

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Content marketing

Content marketing refers to the creation and distribution of material online. Content can include assets such as blog posts, social media posts, charts, ebooks and more.

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Crawler

A web crawler refers to a bot on the internet that scans websites. Search engines like Google have crawlers that are scanning the internet 24/7. Other sites that have an interest in internet data crawl the internet often as well.

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Customer pain point

A customer pain point refers to a specific problem or issue that potential customers of a business are experiencing.

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Digital marketing

Digital marketing refers to marketing techniques that are purely online as opposed to traditional marketing methods such as print, billboards and direct mail.

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Acquisition source

The acquisition source of a user is where the user came from when first visiting your website. This could be a social media post, a search engine, coming to the site directly, paid ads, another website or something else.

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Attribution model

Attribution model (or modeling) is a framework for analyzing which touch points, channels or assets receive credit for a conversion.

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Ad campaigns

Ad campaigns refer to a collection of ads and targeting settings. In an ad account, you can often have multiple campaigns - each one designed to target different groups of people.

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