Digital Marketing Terms - Part 1 Flashcards
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What is HTML5?
HTML5 is a more comprehensive version of HTML that includes coding for features like animation and video.
What is HTTP?
HTTP is a method of transferring data over the internet.
What is implicit lead scoring metric?
Implicit lead scoring metric is information obtained from ‘digital body language’ or observation, like site browsing activity.
What is an impression?
An impression is when an ad is displayed on a website, app, or social media platform.
What is impression share?
Impression share is a measurement of the number of times an ad was shown, divided by the total number of times it was eligible to show.
What is Imp Cvr (Impression To Conversion Rate)?
Imp Cvr is a measurement of how often an impression turns into a conversion, calculated by dividing the number of conversions by the number of impressions.
What are impressions?
Impressions are the number of times an ad was shown on a website, search engine, or social platform.
What is an in-app ad?
An in-app ad is an ad that appears in a mobile app, such as standard banners, video, or rich-media ads.
What are in-market audiences?
In-market audiences are a display targeting option that allows you to show ads to people actively researching a product based on their recent search history.
What is an inactive client?
An inactive client is an element within the client lifecycle that signifies a client is no longer actively using your product or service.
What is an inbound link?
An inbound link is a link from an external webpage to your website and is a source of trust and page rank for Organic Search (SEO).
What is an inbound strategy?
An inbound strategy helps foster the conditions to attract potential customers to a brand or organization.
What is an indexed page?
An indexed page is a page on a site that has been included in a search engine’s organic database.
What is indexing?
Indexing is the process by which a search engine decides whether to use the content it has crawled.
What is individual experience marketing?
Individual experience marketing is where consumers, present at the same time, can see infinite variations.
Who are industry influencers?
Industry influencers are individuals who have positioned themselves as trustworthy authorities in a particular area of expertise.
What is industry trend research?
Industry trend research is the process of understanding your industry as a whole, identifying disruptions and advancements that could affect you.
Who are influenced customers?
Influenced customers are those being influenced by family, friends, industry experts, or competition.
Who are influencers?
Influencers are high-profile individuals who can influence the opinions or buying decisions of your target audience, often due to their social media following.
What are infographics?
Infographics are a way to present a large amount of data in a visual and easy-to-read format.
What is Information Architecture (IA)?
Information Architecture (IA) refers to the organization and structure of a website, including page structure, navigation levels, user pathways, and page URLs.
What are informational keywords?
Informational keywords are search engine queries used when the searcher is looking for information.
What is the Initiate (DMI) principle?
The Initiate principle involves using digital methods to find where your customers are interacting online.
What is InMail?
InMail is a tool by LinkedIn that allows you to send messages to any LinkedIn member, even without prior connection or contact details.
What is an insights tool?
An insights tool is a software or web application that helps indicate whether business activities are impacting goals.
How does the Instagram feed algorithm work?
The Instagram feed algorithm shows photos and videos that it thinks are most interesting to the user.
What is Instagram live?
Instagram live is a feature that allows users to share live videos with their followers and friends.
What is an Instant Experience?
An Instant Experience is a full-screen, mobile-optimized experience.
What is the purpose of a placement targeting advertising strategy?
To select the exact website or app where you wish to show your ads.
What is a point of contact?
A person or department that can be approached for information or assistance on a specific topic.
What is a primary channel in a digital marketing plan?
The channels used as the main focus in a digital marketing plan.
Define predictive analysis.
The use of data to model and forecast potential future outcomes.
What is a premium account on LinkedIn used for?
Career progression, recruitment, lead generation, gaining business insights, and learning.
What is the purpose of a print advertisement?
To use physically printed media to reach consumers and prospects.
What is the PRISM funnel used for?
To connect social media through to the bottom line (sales).
What is primary data in a business context?
Data that a business has collected themselves using their own tools and resources.
Define product development.
The various stages in creating a new product.
What is a political mapping in CRM?
A visual map of CRM contacts used to visualize influence in an opportunity or account.
What is the purpose of Porter’s Five Forces model?
To identify and analyze competitive forces affecting an industry.
What is the definition of positioning in marketing?
How a brand or business is perceived in the market in relation to competitors.
What is the purpose of a posting calendar?
To detail posting dates, content choices, social channel external links, and other details.
Define premium network buy.
An advertising option usually bought through a media house to serve ads on premium websites.
Define premium buy.
A masthead creative that runs on the top of the YouTube homepage for 24 hours.
What is a plan of action in an email strategy?
A clear road map for carrying out all the tactics necessary for an email strategy.
What is a pipeline in sales?
The sum of all open sales opportunities in a forecast period.
Define pixel in the context of touchpoints with a brand.
An invisible image file that helps determine touchpoints across different platforms.
What is the definition of pointDrive in LinkedIn Sales Navigator?
A feature to package, share, track content with customers and prospects in a professional way.
Define platform in the context of digital marketing.
An individual digital channel or social network used for business connection.
Define point of contact.
A person or department that can be approached for information or assistance on a specific topic.
What is a posting calendar used for?
To detail posting dates, content choices, social channel external links, and other details.
Define predictive analytics.
The use of data, statistical algorithms, and machine-learning techniques to forecast outcomes.
What is a premium account on LinkedIn?
A paid-for subscription used for career progression, recruitment, lead generation, insights, and learning.
Define premium buy.
A masthead creative running on the top of the YouTube homepage for 24 hours in a chosen market.
Define premium network buy.
An advertising option bought through a media house to serve ads on premium websites.
What are primary channels used in a digital marketing plan?
The main channels used in a digital marketing plan.
Define primary data.
Data collected by a business using their own tools and resources.
What does Pristine Spam Trap refer to?
An email address that never opted into any email communication.
Define processes in a business context.
A series of actions or steps taken to achieve an objective.
What is App Store Optimization (ASO)?
ASO is a branch of digital marketing focused on improving app visibility in the app store.
What is an auction buy?
An ad format where the advertiser pays when the user engages with the ad, also known as TrueView.
What is audience attitude?
A set of emotions, beliefs, and experiences the audience has towards a particular object or event.
How is audience engagement measured?
Audience engagement is measured by how a target audience interacts with brand or marketing material.
What tool in Facebook provides audience insights?
Audience Insights is a native tool in Facebook that helps understand audience engagement and performance metrics.
What is audience listening?
Audience listening is the process of monitoring what people say on digital media about your brand, products, and competitors.
What is audience behavior?
Audience behavior refers to the attitudes that affect the audience’s behavior towards a brand or category.
What are audience levels of understanding?
Audience levels of understanding indicate where your audience lies on the spectrum of knowledge about your product, service, or brand.
What does audience reach measure?
Audience reach measures the number of individual people within an audience segment who see your marketing material.
What is audience research?
Audience research is the process of determining the makeup, habits, communities of interest, and density within an audience.
What are audience segments?
Audience segments are sets of people with characteristics that distinguish them from other groups in an audience universe.
What is audience targeting?
Audience targeting is a marketing strategy to target people based on their interests and characteristics for ads.
What is an audience in marketing?
An audience, or target audience, is a specified group of consumers who are the recipients of marketing efforts.
What is an automatic bid on Twitter?
An automatic bid on Twitter allows auto-optimization of bids and is suitable for those with a flexible budget.
What is automation in marketing?
Automation is the method of controlling or operating processes through automatic means in marketing.
What does average deal size by lead source measure?
Average deal size by lead source is a sales and marketing metric indicating the most profitable channels for sales and account management.
What is average position in advertising?
Average position refers to the average ad placement on a search engine results page (SERP).
What does average order value (AOV) measure?
Average order value (AOV) measures the average amount someone spends when making a purchase.
What does average visit duration measure?
Average visit duration measures the amount of time on average visitors spend on a website during a session.
What happens during the awareness stage?
During the awareness stage, the benefits of a brand, product, event, or offer are communicated and shared.
What does B2B stand for?
B2B stands for Business to Business, referring to companies that sell to other businesses.
What is B2B content?
B2B content includes white papers, industry-relevant articles, blog posts, podcasts, and infographics targeted for B2B audiences.
What does B2C stand for?
B2C stands for Business to Consumer, referring to companies that sell directly to consumers.
What is B2C content?
B2C content focuses on emotional satisfaction, targeted benefits, and demonstrating value for the price on relevant channels for consumers.
What is a backlink?
A backlink is an incoming hyperlink from one web page to another website, passing reputation to the receiving website.
What is a banner ad?
A banner ad is a display ad unit that uses simple creative assets and hyperlinks.
What are the BANT criteria?
The BANT criteria (Budget, Authority, Need, and Timeframe) assess the quality of prospects and track them through the sales qualification process.
What is benchmarking in marketing?
Benchmarking involves evaluating the performance of teams, campaigns, or performance against a set of predefined benchmarks.
What is programmatic advertising?
A type of advertising that uses AI to build audience profiles and serves the right ad format to drive higher recall, consideration, and awareness.
What are Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)?
Web pages that function like apps for a more immersive user experience.
What is a project brief?
An outline of everything a project will entail.
Who is a project manager?
The person who guides projects from start to finish.
What are promoted pins on Pinterest?
Images, videos, and content used in paid advertising campaigns.
What is a propensity model?
A statistical analysis of consumers to predict future buying behavior based on demographics, psychographics, and purchase history.
What are psychographics?
The study and classification of people based on attitude, aspirations, and other psychological criteria in market research.
What is a qualified visitor?
A user who chooses to engage with a website based on the marketing proposition offered to them.
What are quality metrics used for?
To measure potential business impact, such as close rates, time to close, and deal size.
What is a quality score?
A measure of relevance applied to an ad, keyword, or webpage.
What is a quote tweet?
A retweet with additional comments added, up to the character limit, before posting.
What is the process of ranking in search engines?
The process where search engines sort and rank content, placing high-ranking pages near the top of search results.
What are ranking factors in search algorithms?
Factors that impact how and where a webpage appears in search engine result pages.
What does reach measure in advertising?
How many people were shown your ads.
What is recall in advertising?
The prompted or unprompted remembering of a product brand promotion or ad message.
What is a recycled spam trap?
An email address that was abandoned and later reactivated by the ISP.
What is real-time bidding?
Technology that allows advertisers to bid on each ad impression as it is served based on behavioral targeting via cookies.
What is Really Simple Syndication (RSS)?
A standardized system for distributing content from an online publisher to web users.
What is a reciprocal link?
A link allowing two sites to link to each other.
What is a redirect?
A method that takes a user to an alternative page to the one they clicked on.
What is a referral?
When a third party recommends a company or salesperson to a buyer.
What is referral traffic?
Traffic to a website that originated from another website.
What is refinement in marketing?
The improvement of campaigns or strategy by making small changes.
What is remarketing?
A system that allows advertisers to continue showing ads to people who have visited a mobile website.
What is remnant inventory in advertising?
Advertising space that a publisher or operator is unable to sell directly and is sold at a discounted price through an intermediary.
What are reports used for in CRM?
To enable informed business decisions across all key areas.
What are reposts on Instagram?
The act of posting a photo from someone else’s Instagram account to your own.
What is a resource map?
A map or flowchart that provides a clear layout of all the resources required and identifies any gaps in current resources.
What is resource planning?
The process of identifying, forecasting, and allocating various types of business resources to projects at the right time.
What is responsive web design?
A style of website design that is more flexible than Adaptive Design and ensures optimized websites.
What is brand storytelling?
Brand storytelling is a marketing competency that drives engagement at an emotional level by communicating engaging and memorable stories about a business.
What are brand values?
Brand values are the principles that shape and direct the marketing ethos of a company’s overall brand.
What is brand visibility?
Brand visibility refers to the extent to which a brand’s content is prominent online.
What is a breadcrumb?
A breadcrumb is an element on a page or SERP result that shows the user journey to reach a page.
What does broad match refer to?
Broad match refers to a keyword match type for PPC advertising that offers the broadest reach and widest range of targeting.
What is broadcast?
Broadcast is the primary revenue generator for commercial television and radio stations and is also known as on-air advertising.
What is a budget in marketing?
A budget is the allowable monetary investment for creating and running a marketing campaign.
What is a bumper ad on YouTube?
A bumper ad is a non-skippable video ad of up to 6 seconds that must be watched before a video can be viewed.
What is a business listing?
A business listing is information about a business that is listed on websites and platforms like Yelp, Google My Business, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
What are business objectives?
Business objectives are the outcomes that a business plans to achieve.
What is a Business Value Proposition (BVP)?
A Business Value Proposition (BVP) is the modern expression of solution selling, focusing on selling the business value or end user benefits rather than the components of a product/service.
What does B2B stand for?
B2B stands for Business-To-Business, describing a business that normally provides products/services to other companies/organizations.
What does B2C stand for?
B2C stands for Business-To-Consumer, describing a company that normally provides products/services directly to consumers, as opposed to other companies.
What is a buyer persona?
A buyer persona is a semi-fictional representation of an ideal customer based on market research and real data about existing customers.
What is a buying cycle?
A buying cycle is the typical decision and behavioral pattern that a potential customer goes through before committing to a purchase.
What is a buying signal?
A buying signal is any cue from a sales prospect, direct or indirect, that indicates an intention to make a purchase.
What is calendar sharing?
Calendar sharing integrates with multiple calendars, allowing prospects or leads to choose a preferred date and time that automatically books the seller’s diary.
What is a Call-To-Action (CTA)?
A Call-To-Action (CTA) is a text prompt on a webpage, email, or advertisement that tells the user to perform a specific action, such as clicking a button or a link.
What are call ads?
Call ads are a type of advertisement used on mobile devices that allow users to click or tap to directly call a business through the ad.
What is a Call Tracking Number (CTN)?
A Call Tracking Number (CTN) is a phone number on a website used for tracking purposes, such as determining how consumers found the business or recording their reason for calling.
How is advertising on digital platforms organized?
Advertising on digital platforms is generally organized into campaigns and ad groups or ad sets, with each campaign having its own budget and targeting preferences.
What is a campaign?
A campaign is a marketing project that you want to track or manage.
What does the CAN-SPAM Act control?
The CAN-SPAM Act controls the assault of non-solicited commercial email.
What is a search engine algorithm?
A formula or set of rules that search engines use to determine which websites to show on search engine results pages.
What are search engines?
Programs that search for and identify items in a database that relate to keywords or search queries.
What is Search Engine Marketing (SEM)?
Using search engines to market to your target audience, either through SEO or paid methods such as PPC.
What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
The process of optimizing a website or web page to improve its visibility and gain high rankings in organic search engine results.
What are Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs)?
The pages of results that appear when you search for a keyword or key phrase on search engines like Google and Bing.
What is search intent?
The motivation of a user’s search query in relation to a specific goal, task, or need they wish to resolve.
What is a Second Price Auction?
One type of auction where the winner pays only $0.01 more than the second-place bidder for ad placement.
What is secondary data?
Data that has already been collected through primary sources.
What is segmentation?
The act of distinguishing between different groups of subscribers based on demographics or learned preferences.
What is sentiment analysis?
The analysis of feelings using natural language processing tools to score words for neutral, negative, or positive sentiment.
What is an SEO Audit?
A review of a website’s performance in relation to SEO best practices and tactics.
What is session duration?
The amount of time an average user spends on a website during a visit.
What are sessions?
A group of interactions or hits that occur when someone visits a website.
What is the meaning of ‘shares’ as a metric?
A measure of the number of times a social post or content was shared by an audience.
What are short-tail keywords?
Keywords consisting of one or two words that are often an industry’s generic keywords.
What is Share Of Wallet (SOW)?
The maximum revenue return of a customer, indicating how much revenue can be extracted from a single customer.
What does SMS stand for?
SMS stands for ‘Short Message Service’, typically used to describe text messages sent to mobile devices.
What are similar audiences in Google Ads?
A Google Ads audience type comprised of internet users with characteristics similar to a business’s existing audience lists, used for retargeting.
What is single opt-in?
An email process where an individual subscribes to emails through a form on a web page.
What is a site map?
A page or structured group of pages on a website that link to every page accessible to users.
What is site traffic?
The volume of visitors to a website.
What is a situation analysis?
The understanding of an organization’s activities through research and analysis of the market, competitors, customers, and territories.
What is a skyscraper in Google Display Network?
A type of ad size with dimensions of 120 x 600 pixels.
What is SlideShare?
LinkedIn’s content-hosting platform for uploading and sharing presentations, videos, infographics, and PDFs.
What is a slideshow in the context of Facebook?
A content offering on Facebook where multiple images or videos are displayed in a sequence.
What is social selling?
The process of using social media platforms and tools to develop meaningful relationships with potential and existing customers.
What is the Social Selling Index (SSI)?
A measure of a salesperson’s social selling skills and execution, measured across four pillars: Brand, People, Insights, and Relationships.
What is social sharing?
Reposting content from other sources using the relevant share feature on various social channels.
What is socio-economic data?
Data used to measure population distribution and demographics.
What is a soft bounce in email?
An email process where the email server cannot deliver the message, but continues to try for a limited period of time.
What is Software as a Service (SaaS)?
A web application that charges a subscription fee for an automated system or application that performs specific tasks.
What is the Source in Google Analytics?
The origin of a user’s visit to a website, usually the platform name like Google, Facebook, etc.
What is a Source report in Google Analytics?
A report that tells you where your website traffic is coming from.
What is spam?
Unsolicited bulk email.
What is a spam complaint in email?
An email process where the recipient clicks the Spam or Junk button on your email in their email client.
What is sponsored content?
Content included in paid advertising campaigns on social channels.
What is an SSL certificate?
A small data file that enables encrypted connections between a web server and a browser to ensure site security.
What is a stakeholder?
A person or organization with an interest and a say in the direction of a particular action or subject.
What is a story in social media?
Ephemeral short-form content that shows in the home feed and on a user’s profile for 24 hours.
What is storyboarding?
The process of creating a compelling business story to leverage sales opportunities.
What is a strategic statement?
A succinct description of a firm’s core strategy in exploiting opportunities and avoiding identified risks.
What is strategic writing?
A writing process that emphasizes engaging successfully with clients and leads based on a well thought out strategy and plan.
What are strategies?
The general approaches taken to achieve specific objectives.
What is a strategy?
The general approach businesses take to achieve objectives.
What is structured data?
Code written in a specific way that allows search engines to understand content more clearly.
What is a style guide?
A set of standards that specify guidelines for writing and document design to ensure brand consistency in communication.
What does it mean to subscribe on YouTube?
Agreeing to receive notifications from a particular YouTube channel or user when they post new content.
What is a subscribed audience?
A set of people who have provided their email address to a business in return for newsletter, marketing, and sales updates via email.
What is the sweet spot?
The point at which a customer’s interests align with a company’s expertise.
What is a SWOT analysis?
An analytical exercise in identifying a company’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.
What does SWOT stand for?
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.
What are tactics?
The specific actions, decisions, and resources required to implement predefined strategies.
What is a tag in social media?
A way to contact someone over social media, helping content reach relevant audiences by adding specific categories.
What are tangible assets?
Physical assets.
What are barriers to entry?
Regulatory or competitive reasons that make it difficult to do business within a market, location, or industry.
What is behavioral analytics?
An analytic tactic that provides insight into the actions of your audience and customers.
What is behavioral data?
Data about how people use your product or how they use the different media that you want to use as your marketing channels.
What is the best case?
The total revenue amount if everything closed for the forecast period.
What is a 12 bid auction?
A process where all the different advertisers who are bidding and competing for clicks are entered into Google’s black box system.