Chapter 18 Flashcards
Affiliate Programs
A cost-per-action program, where program sponsors (e.g., Amazon, iTunes) pay referring Web sites a percentage of revenue earned from the referral.
CPM
Cost per thousand impressions (the M representing the roman numeral for one thousand).
Contextual Advertising
Advertising based on a Web site’s content.
Cost-Per-Action (CPA)
A method of charging for advertising whenever a user responds to an ad by performing a specified activity such as signing up for a service, requesting material, or making a purchase.
IP Address
A value used to identify a device that is connected to the Internet. IP addresses are usually expressed as four numbers (from 0 to 255), separated by periods.
Internet Advertising Bureau
A nonprofit industry trade group for the interactive advertising industry. The IAB evaluates and recommends interactive advertising standards and practices and also conducts research, education, and legislative lobbying.
MVNO
MVNO – Mobile Virtual Network Operator. A wireless telecommunications services provider that doesn’t own its own infrastructure. Instead, MVNOs pay a reduced price to license capacity from other providers and repackage the service under their own brand.
NFC
Near field communication; a short-range, wireless communication standard. NFC is being used to support contactless payment and transactions over NFC-equipped mobile devices.
PageRank
Algorithm developed by Google cofounder Larry Page to rank Web sites.
Turning Test
A test of artificial intelligence that, if passed, would mean a computer is indistinguishable from a human being. Originally proposed by renown computer scientist Alan Turing.
Wi-Fi
A term used to brand wireless local-area networking devices. Devices typically connect to an antenna-equipped base station or hotspot, which is then connected to the Internet. Wi-Fi devices use standards known as IEEE 802.11, and various versions of this standard (e.g., b, g, n) may operate in different frequency bands and have access ranges.
Ad Network
An effort that links advertisers to Web sites and other content providers (e.g., app firms, games) that are willing to host advertisements, typically in exchange for payment.
Botnets Or Zombie Networks
Hordes of surreptitiously infiltrated computers, linked and controlled remotely. This technique is used to perpetrate click fraud, as well as a variety of other computer security crimes.
Cache
Pronounced “cash,” and refers to a temporary storage space used to speed computing tasks.
Click Farms
A network of users and computers engaged in coordinated click fraud. Since the different computers leverage different IP addresses, click farms can be more difficult to detect.
Click Fraud
Generating bogus clicks, either for financial gain (enriching fraud), or to attack rivals by draining their online ad budget (depleting fraud).
Click-Through Rate (CTR)
The number of users who clicked an ad divided by the number of times the ad was delivered (the impressions). The CTR measures the percentage of people who clicked on an ad to arrive at a destination-site.
Colos (Colocation Facilities)
Warehouse-sized facilities where telecommunication firms and other corporations bring their fiber optic cables and networking equipment together so that they can exchange networking traffic. These are the interconnection points that help make the Internet function as a network of networks.
Content Adjacency Problems
A situation where ads appear alongside text the advertiser would like to avoid.
Cookies
A line of identifying text, assigned and retrieved by a given Web server and stored by your browser.
Dark Web
Internet content that can’t be indexed by Google and other search engines.
Deep Linking
A link that takes a user to a specific webpage (rather than the home page), or which launches an app and brings up a unique location rather than just launching the app. As an example, a deep link from Pinterest might take a user directly to the Etsy web page or app listing featuring the vendor of that item, rather than generically opening Etsy.com or the Etsy app.
Display (Or Image) Ads
Graphical advertising (as opposed to text ads).
Dynamic Search Ads
Ads generated automatically based on the content of a Web site. Dynamic ads are particularly useful for firms with rapidly updating inventory or firms struggling to keep up with new search terms that may be relevant to their product line.
Fault-Tolerant
Capable of continuing operation even if a component fails.
Geotargeting
Identifying a user’s physical location (sometimes called geolocation) for the purpose of delivering tailored ads or other content.
Global Positioning System (GPS)
A network of satellites and supporting technologies used to identify a device’s physical location.
Impression
Each time an advertisement is displayed.
Impressions
Each time an add is shown to a user.
Interstitials
Ads that run before a user arrives at his or her intended destination in a website or app.
Keyword Advertising
Advertisements that are targeted based on a user’s query.
Landing Page
The Web page displayed when a user clicks on an advertisement.
Link Fraud
Also called “spamdexing” or “link farming.” The process of creating a series of bogus Web sites, all linking back to the pages one is trying to promote.
Low Latency
Low delay.
Market Capitalization (Market Cap)
The value of a firm calculated by multiplying its share price by the number of shares.
Negative Keywords
Keywords that prevent an ad from showing up when specific terms are present.
Opt-In
Program (typically a marketing effort) that requires customer consent. This program is contrasted with opt-out programs, which enroll all customers by default.
Opt-Out
Programs that enroll all customers by default, but that allow consumers to discontinue participation if they want to.
Organic or Natural Search
Search engine results returned and ranked according to relevance.
Pay-Per-Click (PPC)
A concept where advertisers don’t pay unless someone clicks on their ad.
Plug-In
A small computer program that extends the feature set or capabilities of another application.
Proxy Servers
A third-party computer that passes traffic to and from a specific address without revealing the address of the connected user.
Quality Score
A measurement of ad performance (CTR) and ad relevance, and landing page experience. Ads that are seen as relevant and that consumers respond to have higher quality scores. The firm uses quality score multiplied by the maximum CPC to determine an ad’s display ranking.
Query
Search.
Remarketing
Lets a Web site show custom, targeted ads to a user when visiting other sites if that user has already visited a given page on the advertiser’s site. This technique allows firms to “reintroduce” products to users or target them with special messages or promotions.