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4 December 2007
Here's a glossary of terms I used on this website. Each entry is linked to the page where the term appeared.
Above the fold : Area on the webpage immediately visible after the page is loaded.
AdSense : A program from Google for website publishers to display advertisements.
AdWords : A program from Google for businesses to advertise their products and services.
Article Directory : Websites that host free-to-use articles.
Below the fold : Area on the webpage not immediately visible after the page is loaded; area visible after scrolling.
Crawl : Browsing webpages for their content using automated program.
Deepbot : Google spider that tries to follow every link on a webpage. Compare with freshbot.
Domain Name : the hostname in a website's URL, ie www.happyjoblessguy.com.
Earned Income : Money received from activities that require direct personal engagement.
Freshbot : Google spider that crawls the web looking for fresh content. Compare with deepbot.
FTP Software : Software to upload and download files from the Internet.
Google : Company specialising in Internet search and online advertising.
Googlebot : Web crawler program owned by Google.
Hosting : Service allowing individuals and organizations to provide their websites accessibility on the Internet.
HTML : Computer language used for webpages. It stands for Hypertext Markup Language.
HTML Codes : Instructions to the computer on what to do.
HTML Editor : Software to write webpages.
Link Broker : A person or website engaged in the buying and selling of links.
Multi-level Marketing : Business model combining direct marketing with franchising using unsalaried salesforce to sell products/services.
Organic listing : Search result listing based on relevancy of keyword.
PageRank : Ranking system for websites devised by Google.
Paid listing : Search engine listing achieved through keyword-targeted advertising.
Passive Income : Money received from activities that do not require direct personal engagement.
Spider : See under Web Crawler
Web Crawler : Program used by search engines to browse the content of webpages, to compile and index them, also called spider and web spider.
Web Hosting : see under Hosting.
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