A - GLOSSARY Flashcards
404 page: what is it?
A URL that tells the visitor that the webpage does not exist
A/B testing: what is it?
A method of testing where two versions of content with a single differing variable are compared to determine which yields better results
Abandoned cart: what is it?
When a potential customer adds an item to their cart, but doesn’t complete the purchase
Abandoned cart email: what is it?
A follow-up email sent to customers who added an item to their cart but didn’t complete the purchase
Accessibility: what is it?
Considering the needs of people with disabilities when products, services, and facilities are nbuilt or modified, making them usable by people of all abilities
Acquisition email: what is it?
An email sent to acquire new customers
Ad auction: what is it?
A process that determines the best ad to show to a person at a given point in time
Ad extension: what is it?
A Google Ads feature that shows additional information about the business, such as website links, a phone number, or address
Ad formats:
Elements such as text, videos, images, digital content ads, and more that make up a Google Ad
Ad group:
A group of ads that is organized by a group of keywords
Ad spend:
How much a company spends directly on advertisements
Agency:
An outside partner that fulfills a company’s digital marketing and advertising needs
Alt text:
A brief, written description of an image with the primary purpose of assisting individuals who are visually impaired
Anchor text:
The visible text in a hyperlink
Applause rate:
The number of approval actions—such as likes, mentions, Retweets, or favorites—that a post receives relative to the total number of followers
Area chart:
Represents data in the same way as a line chart, but with the space under the line filled in to
form a visual area
Attribution:
Assigns credit for conversions from ads, last clicks, or other touch points along a user’s path
to conversion completion
Attribution project:
Organization for macro and micro conversions in Google Analytics
Automated bidding strategy:
A Google Ads feature that automatically sets a bid for an ad based on an ad’s likelihood to result in a click or conversion that helps achieve a specific goal
Autonomous marketing:
Uses real-time analytics to automate marketing activities
Average daily budget:
The average amount set for each ad campaign on a per-day basis
Average order value (AOV):
The sum of individual order amounts divided by the number of orders
Average session duration:
Reported in seconds, a calculation that divides the total duration of all sessions by the number of sessions
Awareness stage:
The first stage of the marketing funnel, when a potential customer first becomes aware of the product or service
Backlink:
A link that points to a website from another site
Behavioral data:
Refers to information about the actions a customer takes—or doesn’t take—when it
comes to shopping on a website
Best sellers report:
A report in Google Merchant Center that provides information about the most
popular brands and products used in Shopping ads and free listings
Bid:
The amount a marketer is willing to spend each time a potential customer clicks their ad or calls
their business
Bid modification:
Bidding a percentage more or less than a starting bid
Bidding strategy:
Tells an advertiser how much to pay for each user action related to an ad
Big data:
A field in analytics that systematically mines and extracts information from very large datasets
for insights
BigQuery:
Google’s cloud-based data warehouse solution
Blog:
A discussion or informational website published on the internet consisting of discrete, often
informal diary-style text entries
Blogging:
Refers to self-published writing that lives online
BOPIS:
An acronym for “buy online, pick up in store”
Bounce rate:
The percentage of website visitors who view one page and then leave the site
Brand:
How a business or organization is perceived by the public
Branding:
To promote a product or service by identifying it with a particular brand
Brand advocacy:
Measures the number of customers who promote a brand through word-of-mouth
marketing or other methods
Brand awareness:
How familiar people are with a particular business or product
Brand awareness metrics:
Metrics that measure the attention a brand received across all social media platforms during a reporting period
Brand equity:
The value consumers attribute to one brand’s offerings when compared with similar products from another brand