What’s the Word: 19 Digital Marketing Terms You Need to Know

The world of digital marketing, just like any other industry, has its own jargon, acronyms, and technical terms that can seem like a totally different language if you aren’t in the know. While it can potentially take you some time to become familiar with them all, it doesn’t hurt to start getting your feet wet.

Let me, your digital marketing consultant, give you the lowdown on some of the most common and important digital marketing phrases used in the industry.

The Power of Words

If you’re new to digital marketing, then you’re going to want to bookmark this blog or even print it out. There is great power in these words:

1. Audience: This is the group of people or demographic that you are targeting with your digital marketing efforts. Search engines like Google and social media platforms like Facebook offer various tools to reach these individuals that may share the same characteristics.
2. Analytics: This is the data found through your website, social media campaigns, content marketing campaigns, and email campaigns. This information can include traffic numbers, conversion rate, bounce rate, engagement, site speed, and much more. They should also be used to improve your website and digital marketing efforts.
3. Bounce Rate: Your bounce rate is the percentage of people who visit your website and leave after viewing just one page. You want this rate to be as low as possible.
4. Call-to-Action: A call-to-action – or CTA – is a piece of content designed to get your audience to perform an action. CTAs tend to contain action words and verbs such as “call now,” “click here,” “visit our website,” etc.
5. Click-through Rate: This is the number of people that have clicked on a link in your email, display ad, social ad, or on a call-to-action (CTA) in a blog post. For example, if your display ad was seen by 100 different people and only 10 individuals clicked on the ad, this would give you a 10% click-through rate.
6. Content: Content is the material that you publish online related to your business. This can include videos, social media posts, articles, blogs, and other forms of content that all build brand awareness and establish you as a quality expert.
7. Conversion Rate: This is the percentage of people who take the action that you want them to on your website or ad – but this isn’t to be confused with only sales. This can include having individuals submit their emails or signing up for a webinar.
8. Cost Per Click (CPC): Cost per click refers to the amount paid for having an individual click on your display ad. The amount you pay will vary depending on how competitive the terms are that you want to be known for, the industry you are in, and several other factors.
9. Digital Marketing: Suffice to say that digital marketing is here to stay. It’s a way of marketing and promoting brands using various digital channels including websites, social media, content, search engine, display advertising, and other forms of media. Digital marketing requires plenty of data analysis to make the most of your efforts.
10. Engagement Rate: Engagement is the number of times somebody interacts with your content, whether it be likes, shares, comments, or any other number of actions that can be performed. This term is related much more to social media marketing.
11. Impressions: Impressions is the number of times people see a specific post or content. But this doesn’t mean that they necessarily engage with it.
12. Keywords: Keywords are essentially the words that you want to be recognized for when people search for a specific service or business. You’ll have to do some research to find out what these terms are for your business (i.e. restaurant in McAllen, dentist in Austin, lawyer in Houston, etc.)
13. Landing Page: Landing pages are generally stand-alone pages that provide some sort of offer related to your business. Ideally, you CTA is clear, and your landing page content encourages visitors to take action.
14. Off-Page Optimization: These are the SEO practices you use to improve your organic search rankings but which take place away from your website.
15. On-Page Optimization: These are the SEO practices you use to improve your organic search rankings by improving internal site factors like meta tags, internal links, content, and more.
16. Organic Traffic: Organic traffic comes through when people enter the keywords related to your business and find you through the search engine results page.
17. Paid Traffic: Paid traffic is the traffic your website receives when people click on your ads. Since you paid for the add, you are essentially “paying” for the traffic.
18. Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Search engine optimization is the strategies and techniques used to get your business website on the first page of the search engine results. This includes a wide variety of practices including: content creation, link building, on-site and off-site markup, and so much more.
19. Unique Visitor – >Unique visitors are technically considered a “new” visitor to a website within a given time frame.

 

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These terms are just touch the tip of the web design iceberg. Why don’t you contact me, Mauricio Pina, at (956) 566-4998 for a one-on-one consultation where I can teach you everything you need to know about digital marketing.