Internet Glossary
1. Add URL
An add url service is offered, usually by the search engine themselves, for you to add a URL to the submission queue.
2. Alt Tag / Alt Attirbute
The alt attribute is use to provide a short text description of an image. This can be an important for accesibility in case the user cannot view images, such as the blind or those on text only browsers.
3. Anchor Text
Anchor text is the actual display text of a link.
4. Automated Submission
Automated submission is carried out by software, which submits your website to a number of add-url services.
5. Back Links
Back-links are links from another site to your own.
6. Bandwidth
Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data that can travel a communications path in a given time, usually measured in seconds. If you think of the communications path as a pipe, then bandwidth represents the width of the pipe that determines how much data can flow through it all at once.
Hosting companies and ISP's measure the traffic flow in bandwidth terms and the reason its measured is because bandwidth is in fact not free.
Some companies offer unlimited bandwidth and other charge for a certain amount of data flow.
7. Black Hat SEO
Black Hat SEO is the use of SEO techniques that fall out with the terms and conditions of major search engines.
8. Bot
Bot is the abbreviation robot. A search engine spider can be called a bot.
9. Bulk Submission
Bulk submission is the process of using software or a service to submit to multiple search engines in one action.
10. Buy It Now
This term is also known as "BIN". In general its a term used when you want to quickly buy an item with having to do anything else. Mostly the term Buy it Now is used on auction sites like ebay. It means that in order to buy the product you simply buy it straight away rather than have to wait for the auction to close. Quite often sellers will put a slightly higher price on BIN items especially if buyers want to get the product.
11. Cache
A cache is a store of something in order to save it from being generated again unnecessarily. An example would be when you are looking at a web page, a copy of the page is saved (cached) to your computer. This means if you need to look at the site again, the page will load quicker.
12. Cache
When you download a web page, the data is cached, meaning it is stored temporarily on your computer. The next time you want that page, instead of requesting the file from the web server, your web browser just accesses it from the cache.
That way, the page loads quickly. But if the web page is updated frequently, as may be the case with news, sports scores or financial data, you won't get the most current information. By using the Reload button (or CTRL + F5) on your browser, this timely data is updated by downloading fresh data from the server.
13. Ciper Key
A cipher key is a code used to unlock an encrypted cipher.
14. Cipher
A cipher is a message written in a hidden code and usually needs a key (cipher key) to unlock the message.
15. Clickjacking
This is a term used to describe a cross browser vulnerability which affects all and any web browser. Clickjacking gives an attacker the ability to trick a user into clicking on something only barely or momentarily noticeable in order to run a malicious script on your computer.
16. Cloaking
Cloaking is the process of selecting what content to display depending on who is looking. For example, in order to trick a search engine spider, you may cloak a page so that the spider sees one thing and a normal person sees something else. Its a trick commonly used by Black Hat SEO's and can get you banned from most search engines.
17. Cookie
A cookie is a small file sent to your web browser by a web server that is used to record one's activities on a web site.
For instance, when you buy items from a site and place them in a so-called virtual shopping cart, that information is stored in the cookie. When the browser requests additional files, the cookie information is sent back to the server. Cookies can remember other kinds of personal information like your password, so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit the site.
It can remember your preferences, so the next time you return to a site, you can be presented with customized information. Some people regard cookies as an invasion of privacy, others think they are a harmless way to make web sites more personal.
Most cookies have an expiration date and either reside in your computer's memory until you close your browser or they are saved to your hard drive. Cookies cannot read information stored in your computer.
18. Debit Card
A debit card is a charge card used to buy items either in shops or on the internet. Debit card do not have the same level of fraud protection for the card like normal credit card do. For example, if your debit card is fraudulently used, then its quite possible that you will not be able to reclaim the stolen funds. Always check the small print on your bank agreements.
19. Deprecated
In software terms, deprecated simply means that the feature has been superseded or should be avoided. Features that are deprecated remain in the current version but their use may cause issues or errors.
20. Digital Signatures
A term referring to signatures for electronic documents. They establish identity and therefore can be used to establish legal responsibility and the complete authenticity of whatever they are affixed to, in effect creating a digital tamper-proof seal.
