How go the SEO and PPC advertising efforts, Jeff? If our friend Jeff is new to the industry, he might have no idea what those two scary-looking acronyms mean. Safe Environment Operations? Particularly Painful Client? Like any other professionalised trade, there are acronyms that are intended to equal parts save time and impress clients. If you’re a Jeff, the last thing we want is for you to get EOYF (egg on your face). This DSM article takes a look at a selection common digital marketing terminology, and what each nugget of linguistic gold means:
CMS
This acronym refers to a content management system. It is commonly found being used around the drinking fountains of web development departments and is the system used to manage the wording, images, and other content on a website. WordPress is an example of a website CMS.
Copy
This word refers to online wording, found in every corner of the internet. Websites, social media posts, online adverts, and others all rely on written “copy” in headings and descriptions to transfer a message in a language that the reader understands. Copywriters, for example, are those digital professionals who write copy.
SEO
Search engine optimisation involves the use of careful actions taken on a website in order to get it ranking higher on Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines. This includes researching keywords (see below) that internet users are typing into search bars and including them on website pages.
Organic
This phrase is most commonly thrown around in website analytics circles. There are two types of website traffic: organic traffic and paid traffic. SEO involves initial investment, but yields long-term web traffic that is organic (was not paid for). Paid traffic, in contrast, is web traffic coming from paid sources (see below).
