The world of SEO and Internet Marketing has gained considerable popularity in the last few years, and has its own language and dictionary of terms. We have compiled a list of some of the most used words in Search Engine Optimization and other Internet related terms to help you.
Select a letter to see the terms starting with this letter.
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Term and Description |
| 1. | B2BShort for business-to-business. The electronic exchange of products and services between businesses without the direct involvement of consumers.
B2B's effects on business include streamlining purchasing, accounting, and other administrative functions; lowering transaction costs; and simplifying the sale of excess inventory. |
| 2. | B2CShort for business-to-consumer. The direct electronic exchange of products and services between businesses and consumers. B2C's effects on business include improving the efficiency in delivering goods and services to consumers. |
| 3. | BandwidthThe data transfer capacity, or speed of transmission, of a digital communications system as measured in bits per second (bps). |
| 4. | Bandwidth ReservationProcess of assigning in advance a percentage of bandwidth to each user or application served by a network. Also called "Bandwidth Allocation". |
| 5. | bccAcronym for blind courtesy copy. A feature of e-mail programs that allows a user to send a copy of an e-mail message to a recipient without notifying other recipients that this was done. Generally, the recipient's address is
entered into a field called "bcc" in the mail header. Also called "blind carbon copy". |
| 6. | Benign VirusA program that exhibits properties of a virus, such as self-replication, but does not otherwise do harm to the computer systems that it infects. |
| 7. | BINDBerkeley Internet Name Domain. |
| 8. | BISDNBroadband ISDN |
| 9. | Blind Carbon CopySee bcc. |
| 10. | Blind Courtesy CopySee bcc. |
| 11. | blogTo create or maintain a Weblog. |
| 12. | bloggerOne who creates or maintains a Weblog. |
| 13. | BluetoothTechnology protocol developed to wirelessly connect electronic devices such as wireless phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and computers.
Devices equipped with Bluetooth chips can exchange information within about a 30-foot range via radio waves in the 2.45 gigahertz (GHz) spectrum.
Bluetooth was developed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, a consortium of telecommunications, computing, consumer electronics, and related industry groups. |
| 14. | body1. In e-mail and Internet newsgroups, the content of a message. The body of a message follows the header, which contains information about the sender, origin, and destination of the message. See also header.
2. In HTML, SGML, and XML, a section of a document that contains the content of the document, along with tags describing characteristics of the content, for example, format. |
| 15. | bookmark1. A marker inserted at a specific point in a document to which the user may wish to return for later reference.
2. In Netscape Navigator, a link to a Web page or other URL that a user has stored in a local file in order to return to it later. |
| 16. | bookmark file1. A Netscape Navigator file containing the addresses of preferred Web sites. It is synonymous with the Favorites folder in Internet Explorer and the hotlist in Mosaic. See also "Favorites folder", "hotlist", "Internet Explorer".
2. A rendering of such a file in HTML format, generally posted on a Web page for the benefit of other people. |
| 17. | botShort for robot. A program that performs a repetitive or time-consuming task, such as searching Web sites and newsgroups for information and indexing them in a database or other record-keeping system (called spiders); automatically posting one or more articles to multiple newsgroups (often used in spamming and called spambots); or keeping IRC channels open. |
| 18. | bozoA slang term used frequently on the Internet, particularly in newsgroups, for a foolish or eccentric person. |
| 19. | bozo filterOn the Internet, slang for a feature in some e-mail clients and newsgroup readers or a separate utility that allows the user to block, or filter out, incoming e-mail messages or newsgroup articles from specified individuals. Generally these individuals are ones that the user does not want to hear from, such as bozos. |
| 20. | BRB(I'll) Be Right Back. An expression used commonly on live chat services on the Internet and online information services by participants signaling their temporary departure from the group. |
| 21. | BriefcaseA system folder in Windows 9x used for synchronizing files between two computers, usually between desktop and laptop computers. The Briefcase can be transferred to another computer via disk, cable, or network. When files are transferred back to the original computer, the Briefcase updates all files to the most recent version. |
| 22. | Broadband ISDNNext-generation ISDN based on ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) technology. Broadband ISDN divides information into two categories: interactive services, which are controlled by the user, and distributed (or distribution) services that can be broadcast to the user. |
| 23. | Broadband ModemA modem for use on a broadband network. Broadband technology allows several networks to coexist on a single cable. Traffic from one network does not interfere with traffic from another, since the conversations happen on different frequencies, rather like the commercial radio system. |
| 24. | BrowserSoftware that lets a user view HTML documents and access files and software related to those documents. Originally developed to allow users to view or browse documents on the World Wide Web, Web browsers can blur the distinction between local and remote resources for the user by also providing access to documents on a network, an intranet, or the local hard drive. Web browser software is built on the concept of hyperlinks, which allow users to point and click with a mouse in order to jump from document to document in whatever order they desire. Most Web browsers are also capable of downloading and transferring files, providing access to newsgroups, displaying graphics embedded in the document, playing audio and video files associated with the document, and executing small programs, such as Java applets or ActiveX controls included by programmers in the documents. Helper applications or plug-ins are required by some Web browsers to accomplish one or more of these tasks. |
| 25. | Bucket Brigade AttackSee "man-in-the-middle attack". |
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