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Some term abbreviations for you "newbies" out ther…

By jdoepro | October 19, 2004

Some term abbreviations for you “newbies” out there:

ROI – Return on Investment

IT – Information Technology

404 – Refers to Error Pages which can often be customized (e.g. – “The page you requested was not found on this server”)

B2B – Business to Business

B2C – Business to Customer (or Consumer)

ISP – Internet Service Provider

SE – Search Engine

SEO – Search Engine Optimization

SEM – Search Engine Marketing

PR – Page Rank

PPC – Pay Per Click (a type of advertising service with some search engine where you pay a premium each time someone clicks on the link to your website)

URL – Uniform Resource Locator (a short way of saying “your web address”)

SERP – Search Engine Results Page (how far down or how close to the top your site is when you try to find it on a search engine)

IP – Internet Provider Spider – A program used by search engines to locate websites and store the contents of the pages.

BLOG – web log (online diary for posting comments)

SPAM – unsolicited and unwanted advertisements

W3C – Worldwide Web Consortium (group that sets standards for web programming languages)

HTML – Hypertext Markup Language

CSS – Cascading Style Sheets

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