Marketing and Website Acronyms You Need to Know Now

Have you ever heard an acronym in a client meeting or in your own office and quickly jumped to Google to find out what it stood for? You are not alone.  

• B2B: Business to Business- Sales or marketing efforts focused from business to another business.

• B2C: Business to Consumer– Sales or marketing efforts focused from business direct to consumer.  

• SMB: This refers to small and medium sized businesses usually between 5 and 200 Million in revenue.  

• CRM: Customer Relationship Management, this is referring to some type of platform or software that manages your client relationships. 

• CMS: Content Management System. This is usually referring to what system your website is built on, for example, WordPress.  

• PPC: Pay-Per-Click, the charge to advertisers for each person who clicks on their ad.  

• CPC: Cost Per Click-The average price you pay for each click your ad receives. 

• CPL: Cost Per Lead- this is the total cost of all advertising efforts to convert a lead into a sale.  

• CR: Conversion Rate- The calculation of conversions by taking the number of conversions and dividing by the total number of ad interactions.  

• CPM: Cost Per Thousand- This refers to a payment method by advertisers, this method charges per 1000 impressions. M is the Roman numeral for 1000.  

• CTR: Click Through Rate- The metric that measures the number of clicks your ad received per number of impressions. Here’s how to calculate: clicks/impressions = CTR.  

• CTA: Call to Action- This is a piece of content on your site or ad that encourages an action, for example, “Shop Now” or “Get the deal today!”.  

• UX: User Experience- The overall experience a consumer has with your website, platform or profile. Usually focusing on how easy or user friendly it is.  

• KPI: Key Performance Indicators- metrics that are used to measure and evaluate the success of marketing efforts and ad campaigns. 

• SEO: Search Engine Optimization- the digital strategy of optimizing your website for search engine rankings. 

• SERP: Search Engine Results Page- the page on the search engines that showcases the results of a search.  

• PR: Page Rank- The ranking of a web page per Googles ranking algorithm. 

• DNS: Domain Name System-   The name of your IP address. Your DNS translates your IP address into a memorized name.  

• UGC: User Generated Content- This content is referring to any content on your website or social platforms that is not created by your organization.  

• XML: Extensible Markup Language- A markup text-based language that allows users to share data on the web.  

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