Accreditation

Accreditation is a certification process which ensures that accredited “trusted senders” can email freely, without fear of being blacklisted as a spammer.

This certification is performed by independent accreditation programs that have strict rules of email-sending conduct. You earn — and…

Affiliate

An affiliate is a person who markets another company’s products or services. Affiliates can drive traffic to a merchant’s website, or they can make sales on that merchant’s behalf, in exchange for a percentage of the profits.

There are two types…

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a type of partnership where affiliate marketing techniques earn affiliate marketers a referral fee for promoting other businesses’ products or services.

If you want to start an Internet business, but don’t have a product or service of your…

Affiliate Network

Affiliate networks are third-party solution providers that list hundreds (usually thousands) of affiliate programs in their affiliate network — all indexed and managed using their own proprietary affiliate network systems and software.

Essentially, the Affiliate Network acts as the middleman between…

Alexa Toolbar

The Alexa toolbar is a free browser add-on that reveals information about the sites you visit. With the Alexa toolbar you can find other relevant web pages, site statistics, and site owner contact information. You can use the Alexa toolbar…

Anchor Text

Anchor text is the visible part of a basic text link. The clickable, blue, underlined words on this page are all examples of anchor text. The difference between anchor text and a link is that links contain anchor text. Here’s the…

Article Directory

An article directory is an online collection of free text-based articles, usually organized by subject matter. Writers can submit their articles to the directory, and webmasters can choose from literally thousands of relevant articles to beef up their website’s content.

Article directories…

ASCII ASCII

ASCII, or “American Standard Code for Information Interchange,” is a character encoding system developed in the 1960s that is still in use today. ASCII assigns a seven-digit binary code to each alphanumeric character and punctuation mark. For example, the binary…

Auction

Auction sites are websites dedicated to online auctions. A typical auction site enables users to post listings for merchandise, and then tracks bids from potential buyers up until a predetermined closing date and time. After the auction closes, the winning…

Audioblog

An audioblog is a blog that publishes sound files instead of text files. Audiobloggers record their blog entries then post the resulting sound files on their website. Audioblog visitors can download and play these sound files using their home computers,…