- Audience
the group of people that an email promotion or campaign targets.
- Click-Through Rate
is the number or percentage of recipients who achieve a campaign's ultimate goal... which is generally the most important measure of a campaign's success.
- Conversion
is the number or percentage of recipients that complete a promotion's ultimate goal. Conversions are also defined as the number of actual sales derived from a promotional sales campaign, which is generally the most important measurement of a campaign's success.
- Cookie
is a file on your computer that records information of where you have been while surfing the internet. The browser stores this information, which allows a site to remember the browser in future transactions or requests. Since the internet's protocol has no way to remember requests, cookies read and record a user's browser type and IP address (your IP address), and store this information on the user's own computer. The cookie can be read only by a server in the domain that stored it.
- CPM
is an abbreviation for "Cost Per Thousand." The "M" in the abbreviation is the Roman numeral for one thousand. The Cost Per Thousand simply stands for the amount for one thousand of a particular advertising method.
- Domain
the part of the DNS (Domain Naming System) name that specifies details about the host. A domain is the last 3 letters after the final dot, and it tells you what kind of organization is hosting the website. There are six top level domains commonly used in the U.S. They are: .com (commercial); .edu (education); .net (network operations); .gov (U.S. Government); .mil (U.S. Military); and .org (organization). There are other two-letter domains which represent countries, such as: .uk (United Kingdom), and so on.
- Download
is copying information or files from a server or another source to a computer or network.
- GIF
is an abbreviation for "Graphic Interchange Format." GIF is a graphics format that can be displayed on almost all web browsers. It is a common compression format used for transferring graphic files between different computers. Most of the "pictures" you see online are GIF files. GIF images are the most common form of banner creative.
- HTML
is an abbreviation for "Hyper-Text Markup Language." This is a coding language used to make hypertext documents for use on the internet. HTML allows text to be "linked" to another file on the Internet.
- HTTP
is an abbreviation for "Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol." HTTP is a standard method of publishing information as hypertext in HTML format on the internet. HTTP is the format of the World Wide Web. When a browser sees "HTTP" as the beginning of an address, it knows that it is viewing a WWW page.
- Hyperlink
also called a "link," is the clickable link in text or graphics on a webpage that takes you to another place on the same page, another page, or whole other site.
- Keyword
is a word or phrase to focus an online search.
- Opt-in
means to agree to receive promotional e-mails when registering on a particular website from the site owner and other companies to whom he or she may rent your e-mail address to. At AD-Site.com we only use "opt-in" lists. We do not spam, period.
- Opt-out
to request that an email list owner take your name off of the list or at least make sure you are not sent any promotional e-mails.
- SPAM
is the use of email lists to blanket groups or private emails with indiscrimination, and unsolicited messages of a promotional nature, and is also ILLEGAL. AD-Site.com takes special measures to ensure that we are NEVER spamming!
- Targeted Marketing
is advertising which is being undertaken to "target" a specific demographic, market, or audience that is interested in the specific product you are offering. Targeted marketing is one of the most effective methods of advertising.