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30 Helpful Blogging And Website Development Terms For Learners

1. Algorithm - This is a mathematical formulae that search engines use to rank websites online for web search results. It's based on a number of different factors that weigh a web page's importance. This usually changes regularly, for better results and best performances of results in searches.
2. Anchor Text - Anchor text refers to the visible text for a hyperlink.
For example the following will show up as "This is the Anchor Text" within the webpage and it would take you to the home page. This is the html code for it: < a href="
https://idearules.blogspot.com/" >This is the anchor text< /a >
3. Back Link - This is also referred to as an Inbound Link (IBL). These are links that come from one website to another. If you have 50 Back Links, then you have 50 links pointing to your website.
4. Bot - This is also referred to as a "Spider" or "SpiderBot". These are programs the scan (or Crawl) the World Wide Web. Their main purpose is to index web pages for the search engines.
5. Adsense - Google Adsense is a way for any website to display relevant Google ads anywhere on their web pages and earn money from clicks.
6. Ads - Google Ads is a way to advertise online. Your ads are seen in the Google Search Engine Results or on a network of other search engines and content based websites. You are charged Per Click. So it only costs you money if a visitor clicks on your ad and comes to your website.
7. Click-Through - This is just a term used to refer to the click that occurs on a hyperlink and as a result leads to another web page.
8. Click Through Rate - This is the ratio of impressions shown to the number of clicks you're getting.
9. Cloaking - This is a way to trick Search Engine spiders (it can get you banned so don't do it!).
It's a way to show or hide optimized content specifically for the purpose to make a page look good to a search engine.
10. Comment Tag - This is a tag that is only found in the "source code" in HTML. It is not meant to be viewed by visitors. It's just for the programmer.
11. Conversion - A website that is designed to sell a product or do some kind of action like filling out a form is concerned about converting their visitors. When the action of buying or filling out a form is performed, this is called conversion. It is used in combination with how much it costs to bring traffic to that page or product. You will then ultimately be able to figure out a product or website's Return on Investment ( ROI).
12. ROI is your Return on Investment. How much are you making in comparison to what you're spending.
13. Counter - This is a program or script that counts hits or visits to a web page.
14. CPA - (Cost Per Action) - This is how much you pay for some kind of action. This can be purchasing something, filling out a form, signing up for something, etc..
15. CPC - (Cost Per Click) - This is simply how much you are charged for a click on a link to your website from another location.
16. CPL - (Cost Per Lead) - How much you are charged for a lead. A lead is where someone does something like filling out a form.
17. CPM - (Cost Per Thousand) - How much you pay per 1000 impressions.
18. Crawler - It is a program used to go through a website to get information from the website and take it back to the originator.
19. Cross Linking - It's simply linking multiple websites together. Excessive cross-linking can get a website banned from a Search Engine.
20. CSS - (Cascading Style Sheets) - It is a feature that is added to HTML that helps website developers and users have more control over fonts, colors, layout, etc..
21. CTR - (Click Through Rate) - It is the ratio of impressions shown to the number of clicks. It's often used in Pay Per Click Advertising like Google Adwords.
22. Dead Link - It simply a link that doesn't work. It will normally produce an error called a "404 error (page not found)".
23. Directory - It's just a list of websites that are split into multiple categories for people to search.
24. Domain - (Domain Name) - This is a name for a website.
25. Doorway Page - This is another way to get banned by a Search Engine. These pages are not designed for the visitors. The are usually optimized for one keyword and only exist to get high rankings in the Search Engines Results Pages. They are sometimes called a Gateway Page.
26. Dynamic Page - This is a page that is generated automatically by a hosting server at the time it is requested (on-the-fly).
27. Google Everflux - It's a phenomenon that refers to the continuous changes in the Google search results pages at specific times (during the "Google Dance" for instance).
28. FFA Free For All - There is no content on these pages. They are just full of links added by visitors.
29. Fresh bot - It is a Google crawler that is known that adds pages to the Google index a little quicker than other Bots.
30. Gateway Page - This is another way to get banned by a Search Engine. These pages are not designed for the visitors. The are usually optimized for one keyword and only exist to get high rankings in the Search Engines Results Pages. They are sometimes called a Doorway Page. Have a nice day.

How To Blog For Profit With Display Advertising And Affiliate Marketing

If you like to write, blogging just might be a profitable business model for you. The key with blogs is having both high-quality content and the implementation of solid monetizing features. The most profitable blogs use a mix of Advertising and affiliate marketing.

Take a look at my blog over at Freeopenworld Can you spot the money-makers? First, I've got Advertisements running across the top as a menu.

On the Right-hand side of the page, I have Ads to mix things up a bit, and then there's another block of  ads below the articles. Now, take a look at the actual blog posts. I have banner ads running at the top and I'm earning revenue from those advertisements. I also earn revenue by linking to my own sites in the resource box of each article. Finally I collect leads using the ad for a free report.

The real fuel, though, is content. I focus on posting helpful, useful content, with an eye on making my articles keyword rich, and optimized for both the search engines and Adverts. 

This is very important because Ads are contextual, and culled from the keywords in the surrounding content. The more relevant the ads, the more clicks you're going to get. Blogging can be a profit yielding business if well managed.

1. Displaying adverts on your blog is another way to make money from your blog showing ads on your blog means you are selling your blog ads space of your blog to an advertiser.

Then the advertisers begin to bid for your blog ads space, you make money when your blog users start to see the ads and eventually clicks. 

Here is a list of the best ad networks to get started with. Showing ads on your blog doesn’t require you to do anything; you just have to drive in legally or naturally from search engines. 

Displaying ads from ads companies show you give them the right to show ads to your blog users whenever they visit your blog web page.

There are types of ways which the ads company pays for the shown ads
a. CPC – Cost Per Click

This CPC involves your blog users seeing the ads they like the ads by clicking on it based on genuine interest. You are only paid when the user clicks on the particular ads.

b. CPM – Cost Per Impression

This involves your blog user seeing the ads you place on your blog only resulting in impressions. You are paid based on miles of impression meaning 1000 impression results to some amount.

c. CPI- Cost Per Install

This involves your blog user installing apps or using some service that is based on installing. You only get paid when your blog user installs.

d. CPA- Cost Per Action

This involves your blog users clicking on an ad on your site and performing an action after clicking on the ads. 

For example, when the user clicks the ads, it redirects the user to a page to register and the user register and begins to use the service.

You only get paid when the user does an action after clicking the ads you show on your blog. There are lots of sites that offer you the opportunity to serve ads on your site through the process of bidding by advertisers. 

Some of the site that offers ads serving are: Google Adsense, Infolinks, Propellerads and others.

2. Now Affiliate marketing is a sure way to make money from blogging. It has been proven that this money earning method is quite the best of all, as the method is most used by top bloggers to accumulate a great deal of income. 

Affiliate marketing has been in the game for years and will continue to be in-game as a top website that has been created solely with the aim of affiliate marketing.

It ‘ is about you promoting other people’s company’s products and services, while in the process you get paid a certain percentage whenever a user buys the company’s product through your link to make money blogging. 

The rate of your earnings cannot be predicted because this depends on the price of the product you are promoting for sale and the rate of commission the company as to offer you for each product.

You can make as high as $200 off a product that is being bought through your affiliate link. You see this affiliate thing can be very profitable, if it is compared to ads clicks then it is much more profitable. 

If affiliate marketing is done right, it is enough to cover all your bills expenses and to earn a living off it.

If you take affiliate marketing seriously, you can increase your blog income in one click. It doesn’t take much time for you to start earning if you are thinking about your low traffic, it doesn’t matter because traffic means nothing if you are targeting the current user of your blog.

Even if you have a blog that’s receiving higher traffic, you may not earn a dime if you are not using your affiliate links the right way. 

Writing the right article for your affiliate product or service gives you the power to higher outreach and conversion rate resulting in more sales and more money.

You can learn about the Good and Bad aspects of affiliate marketing. Using post as affiliate means When you write a detailed and useful article for your affiliate link it will result in more money for you.

Note, always be sincere whenever you are writing on a product or service, make researches to make sure you are passing the right information about the product or service. 

Never write a post with false information just to promote your product sale because if it backfires you might never gain the trust of your blog users anymore and this will result in sales crash and also giving your blog a bad reputation.

Have a wonderful day and stay safe.