Teens Online Money Making Terms
Lets start this tutorial with some simple terms that will help you make money online. Although there are many ways for teens to make money online, we will start with the Free Money Making first. When I say "make money free", I do NOT mean without any work, but rather that you do not have to pay any money to start.Try to read through them several times so it sticks in your memory. This guide is for teenagers who are beginners in the internet marketing world.
SEO - Search Engine Optimization : this refers to getting your particular website recognized by the various search engines, namely Google (tm). If you do a search for this term, then you will find millions of websites that pop up offering countless ways to help you climb the search engine ladder. This is the most important term to familiarize yourself with as it will make or break your website. Good SEO brings in clicks whereas bad SEO brings only disappointment.
Backlink : a link on another website or web page that links directly back to your website. This term is your lifeblood and is your main influence in your overall search engine ranking. I'll speak more about this later.
CLR : - this means ' Click - Through - Rate '. This refers to the advertising that may appear on your website and is usually expressed as a percentage. It is the percentage of visitors that actually click on one of your advertisements. So if you get 100 visitors and 10 click on one of your ads, then your CLR would 10%. CLR percentages usually vary but, in my opinion, anywhere between 4% and 10% is great. I'll talk more about advertising soon.
KEYWORDS : Keywords are simply the main words that are contained within your website that describe what your content is about; the most significant words relative to your content. Search engines scan all the content of your web page and try to determine which ones point to it's main topic. This is how they classify and eventually rank your site in there searches. For example, if you make a site about fishing supplies, then somewhere within the page there will be "key" words, such as bait, fishing poles, hooks, worms, string, lures, etc. The search engines will send a automated robot to thoroughly scan your webpages and from that information they will catalog your site.
MONETIZE : To add money making potential to your website. This simply means that you add some feature to your site that enable you to convert traffic that visits the site into actual money. Popular methods of doing this vary but one of the most prevelant (and free, btw) is to use Google Adsense (tm). This is basically an automated advertising program that intuitively scans your site for content keywords and identifies your site. The program then posts pre-made advertisements onto your site. Each time somebody clicks on one of the ads, you will make a small amount of money. There is much, much more to this and many rules to follow, so be sure to search "adsense" and read up on it. Other popular ways to monetize your site include affiliate marketing, BANS sites, surveys, email gathering, etc. My suggestion is to stick to Adsense if you are a beginner. I will discuss this further in an upcoming post.
Algorithm:
The secret formula that a Search Engine uses to determine which web pages it will rank for any particular search and in what order those pages will appear in the SERPs.
Crawl:
What spiders do - they crawl the web by harvesting links leading from one web page to another in order to discover as many pages as they can.
LinkAn image or text that, when clicked on, takes you to another page on the web.
Page Rank:
Google’s measure of the relative value of a web page as compared to all of the other pages on the internet. Page Rank goes from 0 to 10, with 10 being the highest.
PPC’s :
Pay Per Click AdsA very popular form of online advertising in which the advertiser pays for each visitor who clicks on their ad and goes to his/her website.
SERPs :
Search Engine Results PagesThe pages of results that appear after a search is made.
While there are literally thousands of marketing terms and tools on the internet these days, I believe that these are the most important for teens who are beginners at internet marketing. Most of the other terms are better learned when doing.