Online Web Marketing Dictionary
More than 10,126 Internet Web Marketing Terms and Definitions 

Email marketing is email marketing is the process of managing lists, developing ad campaigns, creating promotional offers, broadcasting email messages, and tracking the results. Email marketing systems generally combine advanced message broadcast systems along with tracking systems that can monitor the reception, opening, and response to email messages that have been sent.

This figure shows an example email marketing process with some sample numbers. This example shows that email marketing is the process of managing lists, developing ad campaigns, creating promotional offers, broadcasting email messages, and tracking the results. This diagram shows an example of lists that cost 1 to 10 cents per name. Names in these lists are grouped to match specific marketing campaigns. These marketing campaigns have several promotional offers. The emails are broadcast and some of the emails are returned and 1% to 20% returns is typical. Of the emails that make it to the recipient, some of the emails are never opened. Of the 25% to 80% of the emails that are opened, approximately 2% to 10% click through to the specific product or service order.

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Keyword Advertising

Keyword advertising is a marketing process that uses key words that uses key words that potential customers enter into search engines to find product or service information. Keyword advertising is usually paid for by a fixed fee or bidding process. To Keyword advertise, a list of keywords is selected and associated with a URL and a short message to accompany the listing. When the search term(s) matches the keyword, the URL and the descriptive text are displayed. These listings are called sponsored listings.

This diagram shows the basic keyword advertising process. In this example, four companies have submitted ads to a search engines that match a keyword. When a Internet user enters a search word into the search engine, the search engine provides the user with a list of URLs found along with a list of sponsored ads. The sponsored ad presentation (impressions) is organized with the highest bid on top and ads with lower bids positioned lower on the screen.

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Affiliate Links

This figure shows the basic operation of affiliate links. This example shows that affiliate links are provided to affiliate marketing partners and these links are inserted on pages that have a common interest with the affiliate's product. When visitors to the affiliate web sites click on the affiliate link, this link provides the web address of the destination page along with an affiliate ID code. When the destination page is accessed, the affiliate ID code is stored during the visitor's session. If the visitor purchases a product, the affiliate ID is stored along with the order information. This order information and affiliate commission table is used to calculate the commissions that are paid to the affiliate partner.

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Viral (Referral) Marketing

This figure shows the basic process of viral (referral) marketing. This diagram shows that viral marketing starts with a message that contains some valuable information element along with a referral message (viral message). The viral message is sent to people who have a likely interest in the information contained in the viral message. When people receive a viral marketing message, they are encouraged to forward the message to their friends. This example shows that it is likely that recipients will forward the message on to others who have an interest in the information. This multiplies the effect of the marketing campaign as many more people receive the message than was initially sent.

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