[Mr. Sal]

Note: It took me a long time to compile this post of "Acronyms and Definitions", I hope it is a worthwhile post.

ABW - ABestWeb - The Internet's Leading Affiliate Marketing Forum!
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ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
ASP - Application Service Provider.
BHO - Browser Helper Object.
B2B - Business to Business.
B2C - Business to Consumer.
EPC - Average pay out per hundred clicks.
EPM - Earning per thousand impressions.
CR - Conversion Ratio.
CGI - Common Gateway Interface.
CPA - Cost Per Action.
CPC - Cost Per Click.
CPL - Cost Per Lead.
CPM - Cost Per Thousand.
CPS - Cost Per Sale.
CR - Conversion Rate.
CRM - Customer Relationship Management
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets.
CTR - Click Through Rate.
DMOZ = Directory MOZilla.
LTV - Loan To Value.
FFA - Free For All.
ODP = Open Directory Project.
Payment Threshold - The minimum amount of commission earned before payment is made.
PFI - Pay For Inclusion.
PFP - Pay For Performance.
PPA - Pay-Per-Action.
PPC - Pay Per Click.
PPI - Pay Per Impression.
PPL - Pay Per Lead.
PPCSE - Pay Per Click Search Engine.
PPS - Pay Per Sale.
ROI - Return On Investment.
RON - Run Of Network
ROS - Run Of Site.
RSS - Real Simple Syndication
SE - Search Engine.
SEM - Search Engine Marketing.
SEO - Search Engine Optimization.
SEP - Search Engine Positioning.
SERP(s) - Search Engine Results Page(s).
SPIFF - Additional commission on specific products.
SSI - Server Side Include.
SWF - Shockwave Flash File.
TOS - Terms of Service
USP - Unique Selling Proposition.

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DHTML - Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language.
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
Hypertext - Machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected.
PHP - Scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
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Parasite - ParasiteWare™ - is technology (including, but not restricted to, browser helpers, browser plug-ins, toolbars and pop ups/sliders) that knowingly or unknowingly undermines or removes another affiliate's ability to compete by changing, intercepting or redirecting an affiliate link. Parasiteware™ may be installed knowingly or unknowingly by the end user, altering their normal web browser functions and/or installing a third party application that works through the user's altered browser.

Cookie - A short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access some web sites.
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AM's - Affiliate Managers.
OPM's - Out Sourced Program Managers.
PM - Private Message.
CYA - Cover Your @ss
Adwhore™ - Search ABW for that one or ask, Webmaster's Mike and Charlie. ---> Answer is Here
CJ - Commission Junction ®
LS - Linkshare ®
SAS - Shareasale ®

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Haiko, Moderators, feel free to delete any of the extra info below if you think that, it may not be suitable for newbies to know yet.
Also, I post it on the Midnight Cafe' Forum so more people can see it, but if there is a better place, just move it there.
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Extra Info.

Active Users = ABW, Members and Guests on the board now.

Guests = Lurkers at the moment.

Member is on-line now. =
Member is off-line now. =

Active Users: New Link Colors.

RED - Administrators.
BLUE - Affiliate Managers.
GREEN - Moderators.
NAVY - The rest of us.

Some old Standard Titles for Members of ABW.

Newbie
Member
Full Member
Super Member
ABW Veteran

Standard Pips* for Members of ABW.

Pips* =

When you're a Newbie, you will have no Pips.
They will grow on you if you become an active member and not just a lurker.
You can work your way up by learning all you can and by helping others too.

From One as a Member to Six. as a Super Member

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Sal.

[westgroup]

[Neil]

SPIFF ? in the uk we call it.. special performance incentive fund [spif]

but i am very impressed by your effort.
you should write an e-book for beginners

[MichaelColey]

Great collection of acronyms! I've made it a sticky post and moved it to the Newbie FAQs Forum.

[Kend]

AWESOME, thanks Sal, been wanting something like this for months.

I always have trouble remember acronyms...the IT world, in general, has TONS of acronyms.

[Chocolate_Chicken]

What's a Spam Wank Duper Cookie Cannon B-A-H&O Trick for Clickster?

[Lectrickitty]

Thanks again Sal. I already said that on the other thread, but want to add it here also.

[asr_guy]

Thanks Sal. That cleared up a lot of nagging questions I had.

One is missing: TLA = Three Letter Acronym

Cheers,
Peter

[Dawn]

Wow that's great - it definitely helps. I saved it into my personal files.

[SSanf]

I think you need to add some standard definitions.

A newbie will have a real need to know what an adwhore is!

[Lectrickitty]

Did you forget PR or did I overlook it on your list?

[Mr. Sal]

Originally Posted by Lectrickitty

Did you forget PR or did I overlook it on your list?

Lectrickitty,

I don't forgot PR, but feel free to use any of these for PR.

PR - Public Relations - Like in: That Network needs some good PR - to get out of this one.

PR - Page Rank - Like in: You have a good PR in the SE - but, you're not making money.

PR - Payment Report - Like in: That Network screwed up the last PR - again.

PR - Partial Results - Like in: That Network is only showing some PR - but, most are reversals.

PR - Parasite Ranch - Like in: That Network is a PR - but, who's leaving it?

PR - Puerto Rico - Like in: San Juan, PR - San Juan is the capital and largest city of Puerto Rico.

So you see?

It all depends on what is in the content of the paragraph.

Now, give me your PR on this post. But this time PR is your Personal Review.



Sal.

[Lectrickitty]

Good one! Now I understand why you left it out of the original post. LOL

[nish]

you may also add DRM, PSC.. It took me a while to figure these out.

-nishith

[Lectrickitty]

oK NISHITH, I've been waiting for days and nobody has come in here to say what DRM & PSC are... It's DRM (down right mean) of you to leave me wondering for so long... so spill the beans already!

[Lectrickitty]

Another question. I keep reading about SSI - Server Side Include, What the heck is it? What does it do? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Leader]

PSC = Product Showcase Creator

[Mr. Sal]

Originally Posted by Lectrickitty

Another question. I keep reading about SSI - Server Side Include, What the heck is it? What does it do? Inquiring minds want to know.

Read more here: WHAT IS SSI? from the BigNoseBird.Com's Server Side Include Page (SSI)

[Mr. Sal]

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DRM = Dynamic Rich Media
PSC = Product Showcase Creator ... PSC Directory
DPSC = Dynamic Product Showcase Creator.
IPC = Instant Page Creator ... irvs tool
FDSE = Fluid Dynamics Search Engine ... FDSE

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[ecomcity]

Originally Posted by Chocolate_Chicken

What's a Spam Wank Duper Cookie Cannon B-A-H&O Trick for Clickster?

That's an Adwhore!

[Ron Bechdolt]

Now I finally know what RON stands for.

RON - Run Of Network

Hmmm, sounds impressive.

[Mr. Sal]

After I was confused today with this Acronym "IPO", I decided to include that Acronym here.

Yes, I confess, "IPO" and "IPod" are two different animals, so kill me now!
iPod = A brand of portable digital media player designed and marketed by Apple Computer.

Anyways, there are more new members here since the previous post on this thread, so maybe someone else new, may find an Acronym that they don't know yet.

IPO = Initial public offering.

Sal.

[Rexanne]

Mr Sal. The original list is impressive and a wonderful effort. Good idea to bump it.
I've pretty much figured out most of them after hanging around ABW for 6 months or so but a few were "aha" moments.
Thanks for your super effort!

[Kevin]

Let's get this into Wikipedia... They'd love it....

[Kevin]

Better yet, we could just have Haiko install the mediawiki software here and build are own...

You mods looking for something else to mod?

edit: Yay! 400 posts...