Webmaster's Glossary Index
Welcome to the PRO-Webs webmaster’s dictionary. Here we have posted a functioning dictionary for web development, SEO and other website terminology you may need to look up or become more familiar with. If you seek a related definition and cannot find it here, please feel free to send us and email and ask. After we answer your question we will post it here for others to benefit as well.
- A/B Testing
- Above the Fold
- Absolute Link
- Accessibility
- Ad Inventory
- Adaptive Selling
- Addon Domain
- Affiliate Program
- Aggregator
- AJAX
- Alexa Rank
- Algorithm
- Alt Tag
- American Marketing Association (AMA)
- Analytics
- Anchor Text - Link Text
- Anonymous FTP - Anonymous File Transfer Protocol
- Anti-Aliasing
- Apache - Apache HTTP Server
- API - Application Program Interface
- Applet
- ARIN
- ASCII
- ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- ASP - Active Server Pages
- Atom Feed
- Attribute
- Authentication
- Authority Site
- Autoresponder
- Avatar
- Backbone
- Backlinks - Inbound Links
- Bad Neighborhood
- Bait and Switch
- Bandwidth
- Banned - Blacklisted
- Banner Ad
- Banner Blindness
- Base 64
- Behavioral Marketing
- Benchmark
- Benchmarking Gap
- Beta - Beta Release
- Binary File
- Black Hat SEO
- Blacklist
- Blog - Weblog
- Blogosphere
- BOGO
- Boolean Search
- Bounce Rate
- Brand Loyalty
- Branding - Brand Image
- Breadcrumb Navigation
- Broken Link
- Browser Compatibility
- Cache
- Call To Action
- Canonical
- Cascading Style Sheet - CSS
- ccTLD - Country Code Top Level Domain
- CGI - Common Gateway Interface
- cgi-bin
- CLI - Contextual Link Inventory
- Click & Mortar
- Click Fraud
- Cloaking
- CMS - Content Management System
- Code Swapping
- Comment Spam
- Contextual Link Inventory
- Control Panel
- Conversion
- Conversion Rate
- Cookie
- CPC - Cost per Click
- CPM - Cost Per Million Impressions
- Crawl Depth
- Crawl Frequency
- Cron Job
- Cross Linking
- Cross Sell
- CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
- CTA - Content Targeted Ad
- CTR - Click Through Rate
- Cybersquatting
- Daemon
- Data Mining
- Database Driven Website
- Dead Link
- DEDI - Dedicated IP Address
- Dedicated Hosting
- Deep Link
- Default Page - Default Index
- Delisted
- Delisting
- DHTML - Dynamic HTML
- Directory
- Disk Space - Disk Quota
- DNS
- DOM - Document Object Model
- Domain Name
- Doorway Page
- Drop Shipping
- DTD - Document Type Declaration
- Dynamic Content
- Dynamic IP Address - Shared IP
- E-commerce - Ecommerce
- Encryption
- Exact Match
- Fair Use
- False Drop
- Favicon
- FFA - Free for All
- Firewall
- Flash
- Flux
- Freeware
- Fresh - Freshness
- Fresh Crawl
- FrontPage Extensions
- FTP - File Transfer Protocol
- Full Text Search
- Gateway Page
- Geographic Segmentation
- Geographical Targeting - Geo Targeting
- Get Request - Get Method
- GIF
- Gigabyte - GB
- Google AdSense
- Google Bombing
- Google Bowling
- Google Dance
- Google Juice - Link Juice
- Googlebot
- Gray Hat SEO
- gTLD
- Hardware
- Heading Tag
- Hidden Text
- Hit
- Hot Linking
- Hotspot
- htaccess
- HTML - HyperText Markup Language
- HTML Sitemap
- HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
- httpd.conf
- Hyperlink
- IANA- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- IBL
- ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- Iframe - Frames
- IIS
- Impression
- Indexed Pages
- Internal Link
- InterNIC
- IP Address
- ISP - Internet Service Provider
- Java
- Java Applets
- Java Script
- Keyword
- Keyword Cannibalization
- Keyword Density
- Keyword Matching
- Keyword Spamming
- Keyword Stuffing
- KISS
- Landing Page
- Latency
- Link Bait
- Link Command
- Link Condom
- Link Farm
- Link Love
- Link Popularity
- Link Rot
- Load Balancing
- Localhost
- Log File
- Long Tail Keyword
- LSI - Latent Semantic Indexing
- Made for Advertising - MFA
- Manual Submission
- Market Cannibalization
- Mashup
- Meta Description Tag
- Meta Keyword Tag
- Meta Refresh
- Meta Search Engine
- Meta Tag
- MFA
- Mirror Site
- mod_rewrite
- Monetize
- MySQL
- Navigation
- .NET Framework
- News Aggregator
- Niche
- nofollow - nofollowed link
- Noindex Meta Tag
- Obfuscation
- Open Source Software
- Operator
- Organic Link
- Organic Listings - Rank - Results
- Organic SEO
- OS - Operating System
- Outbound Links (OBL)
- Packet
- Packet Sniffing
- Page Age
- PageRank - PR
- Pageview
- Parked Domain
- Path
- Pay per Click - PPC
- PayPal
- PCI Compliance
- PDF - Portable Document Format
- Perl
- Personally Identifiable Information
- PHP
- Podcast
- Poison Words
- POP - Post Office Protocol
- Post - Post Request
- Progressive JPEG
- Promo Domains
- Protocol
- Query
- Query Token
- Reciprocal Link
- Redirect 301
- Redirect 302
- Referrals - Referral Traffic
- rel=canonical
- Relative Link
- Relevancy
- Reverse DNS
- Robot
- robots.txt
- ROI - Return on Investment
- RSS - Real Simple Syndication
- Sandbox
- Scraping - Scraper
- Script
- Search Engine - SE
- Search Engine Positioning
- Search Engine Spider
- Search Query
- Searchjacking
- Secondary Links
- Segmentation - Market Segment
- SEM - Search Engine Marketing
- SEMPO - Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization
- SEO - Search Engine Optimization
- SEO Professional
- SERP
- Sessions - Session
- Shell Archive
- Site Command
- SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol
- Snippet
- Social Media
- Spamdexing
- Spider
- Spider Trap
- Splash Page
- Sponsored Results
- SQL
- SSI - Server Side Include
- SSL - Secure Socket Layer
- Status Code
- Stemming
- Stickiness
- Stickiness - Sticky
- Stop Word
- Sub Domain
- Supplemental Results
- Syndication
- Tag Cloud
- Taxonomy
- Technorati
- TELNET
- Three Way Linking
- Toolbar PageRank
- Top Level Domain - TLD
- Traffic
- Unicode
- Uninterruptible Power Supply - UPS
- Unique Visitors
- Unix
- Uptime
- URI - Universal Resource Locator
- URL Variable
- URL- Uniform Resource Locator
- Usability
- Usenet
- User Agent
- User Generated Content - USG
- Vertical Search
- Virtual Domain
- VPS - Virtual Private Servers
- W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
- Web 2.0
- Web Host
- Web Server
- Web Statistics - Stats
- Webmaster
- Weighting
- White Hat SEO
- WhoIs
- Wiki
- Windows Hosting
- WYSIWYG Editor
- XML - Google Sitemap
- XML- Extensible Markup Language

