Digital Marketing Terms & Definitions – The Ultimate Glossary

SEM: Search engine marketing: All Marketing Actions we do to appear on the first page of search results.

SEO: search engine optimization – the process of choosing targeted keyword phrases related to a site and ensuring that the site places well when those keywords are part of a Web search.

Organic: the unpaid digital marketing activities

Paid: the paid digital marketing activities

Quality Score: diagnostic tool meant to give a sense of how well your ad quality compares to other advertisers

Reach: the number of Facebook users who see a specific advertising campaign

Engagement Rate: the percentage of followers or viewers that engage with a post.

Open Rate: an email marketing metric that measures the percentage rate at which emails are opened

Click Rate: the percentage of people who click on an email link after receiving an email campaign

CPA: online advertising payment model in which payment is based solely on qualifying actions such as sales or registrations

Conversion Rate: the percentage of visitors who take the desired action

GDN: Google Display Network consists of a group of more than two million websites, videos, and apps where ads can appear.

CPC: the cost paid per click

Clicks: the number of times online users have clicked on a digital advertisement

Cost: the total expenditure on the digital marketing activities

Impressions: the number of times your content is displayed

CTR: the average number of click-throughs per hundred ad impressions, expressed as a percentage

Avg. Session Duration: the average amount of time a user spends on a session

Bounce Rate: the percentage of visitors who leave after viewing a single page

Pages / Session: a website’s total page views divided by the total number of sessions in a given period

ROI: the ratio of profits (or losses) to the amount invested

USP: A unique selling point (USP) refers to the unique benefit exhibited by a company, service, product, or brand that enables it to stand out from competitors

Cost per 1000 reached: the average price an advertiser spent on every 1,000 people the ad campaign reached

Cost per 1000 impressions: the cost an advertiser pays for one thousand views or impressions of an advertisement

MAU Monthly Active Users: the number of unique users who have performed some action in an app within the last month (30 days)

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