Every day at chilliapple is a chance to cut out the unnecessary waffle from our industry. Our no-nonsense approach means that our clients who are less well versed in ecommerce and all things digital are not confused or hoodwinked.<\/p>\n
So, we thought it helpful to share our \u2018jargon buster\u2019 to everyone \u2013 you can trust us to know our stuff.<\/p>\n
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301 redirect 302 redirect 404 not found A<\/p>\n A\/B testing Above the fold Address verification service (AVS) Admin Affiliate marketing Alt text Anchor text API Aspect ratio Assisted conversions Attribute Attribution model Authorisation B<\/p>\n Backend Banner Billing address Bounce rate Breadcrumb Bricks & mortar Broken link Bundling Business to business (B2B) Business to consumer (B2C) Buy-to-detail rate C<\/p>\n Call to action (CTA) Canonical URL Cart abandonment rate Cart-to-detail rate Cascading style sheet (CSS) CCV Chargeback Click-to-open rate (CTOR) CMS Cohort analysis Conversion Conversion funnel Conversion rate Conversion rate optimization (CRO) Cookies Cross-selling Customer lifetime value (CLV or LTV) D<\/p>\n Discount code Domain Drop-down text (or menu) Drop shipping Dynamic content E<\/p>\n Email marketing Event-triggered email Evergreen content F<\/p>\n FAQ Feed reader Frontend Fulfilment G<\/p>\n Gateway (or payment gateway) H<\/p>\n Hamburger menu Home page HTML I<\/p>\n Inventory J<\/p>\n JavaScript K<\/p>\n Keyword Keyword stuffing L<\/p>\n Landing page Layout Link juice M<\/p>\n Merchant account provider Meta tag Mobile commerce (m-commerce) O<\/p>\n Open rate Outsource P<\/p>\n Path length Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance Payment service provider Pay-per-click (PPC) marketing Point-of-sale (POS) system R<\/p>\n Recurring payment Robots.txt RSS feed S<\/p>\n Search engine optimization (SEO) SERP Shipping Shopping cart (or bag) Sidebar Sitemap Splash page SSL certificate Static content Stock keeping unit (SKU) T<\/p>\n Theme Time lag Third-party payment processor Transaction Transactional email Turnkey U<\/p>\n UI Upselling URL Usability or user experience UX V<\/p>\n Void W<\/p>\n Web analytics Widget WYSIWYG \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every day at chilliapple is a chance to cut out the unnecessary waffle from our industry. Our no-nonsense approach means that our clients who are less well versed in ecommerce and all things digital are not confused or hoodwinked. So,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecommerce"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Tells search engines and site visitors that a page has permanently moved to a new web address.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Tells search engines and site visitors that a page has temporarily moved to a new web address.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Tells the visitor that a web page no longer exists.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Display two versions of a webpage to a split audience to determine which one performs better.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Web page content that can immediately be seen without the visitor needing to scroll when they first arrive.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Used by credit card processors to verify that the billing addresses of your customers match the addresses on their credit card statements.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The secure, password protected back office of your online store where orders, catalogues, content and configurations are managed.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Where you incentivise online partners to send traffic to your website.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The text displayed instead of an image when the user cannot view it.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The literal, visible text of a hyperlink to another page or page section.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Application Programming Interface. It allows software solutions to communicate with each other.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The proportional relationship between the width and height of an image.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A Google Analytics report that ranks the importance of marketing channels in generating leads and visits to your website.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Anything that describes a product such as colour, weight, size and price.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A tool to help you understand the degree of influence and interplay of marketing channels (such as direct, organic and paid search, referral, email, social and display) on your sales.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>When your customer\u2019s credit card issuer permits a payment transaction to proceed.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Parts of your website that the customer cannot see.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Website adverts displayed on a page in a rectangular or square format at the top or bottom or left or right margins.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The address used on a customer\u2019s credit card statement.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The percentage of visitors who enter a website and then leave rather than view other web pages.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A navigation aid to help visitors keep track of their location on your website.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A retail business that has a physical location rather than just online only.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A hyperlink that fails to send the user to its intending web page.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The grouping of related products or services as a package, often for better value for money, to encourage conversion.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Online sales transactions between businesses.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Online sales transactions between a business and a consumer.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A Google Analytics metric that looks at the number of products purchased compared with the number of times the customer viewed product detail pages.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A persuasive marketing message to encourage a consumer to take action, such as \u201cbuy now\u2019, \u201cvisit today\u201d or \u201cfind out more whilst stocks last\u201d.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The URL of a page that a search engine thinks is most representative from a set of duplicate pages on your site.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The rate of potential customers who leave a site despite having items in their cart or bag compared to all shopping carts created.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A Google Analytics metric that looks at products added to a customer\u2019s cart versus the views of product detail pages.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>They are used to format the layout of web pages. They can be used to define, for example, text styles, spacing between paragraphs, table sizes and variations in display for different devices.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Credit Card Verification code to provide an additional level of payment security.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>When a completed credit card transaction is reversed because a customer disputes a charge (due to a faulty good).<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>This compares the number of unique clicks to unique opens of an email and reflects the effectiveness of its message.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Content Management System. Software that is used to create, edit and maintain content on a website.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>An analysis of the online behaviour of a segment of ecommerce customers during a specified time frame.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>When you transform an online store visitor into a paying customer (or whatever goal you set).<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The journey your web visitors will follow from entry to exit. \u00a0It resembles a funnel because at each stage of the buying process there will be fewer potential customers.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The percentage of online store visitors who become paying customers.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The action of improving a website\u2019s layout, content and design, landing pages and search engine results to optimise sales.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Small text files used for targeting online adverts and content and for saving shopping cart information. They are issued when someone visits a website.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>When a seller offers additional products that complement, enhance, or relate to the main product being sold.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The predicted revenue that a customer can generate for your business during their lifetime with you.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A code that online shoppers enter at checkout for special offers or discounts. This code can also be embedded in specific links from adverts to automatically discount a price before buying.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The address of \u00a0website that the customer types in their browser.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A feature that reveals a list of options when clicked on.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>When an online store passes shipping information about each customer order to its wholesale suppliers for the products to be delivered efficiently.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A web page that displays content to reflect the user\u2019s request<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Promotion of your products and services to a targeted audience through email.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Email sent to subscribers based on specific events such as birthday or life stage.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Content with a long shelf life.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Frequently asked questions<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Software used to read syndicated content from RSS feeds<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The parts of your website that your customer can see.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The receipt, processing, packaging, and shipping of online orders.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>An ecommerce service provider that communicates with your merchant account provider to authorize and process credit card payments.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The three line icon found at the top of a modern website to hide a menu of options.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The first web page your visitors see when accessing your domain. It is considered the most important page by search engine indexing.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>HyperText Markup Language. It defines the meaning and structure of web content including text, images and video.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A retailer\u2019s products on the shelf waiting to be sold.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A scripting language used with HTML to produce dynamic effects and interactions on web pages.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A term or phrase used to search for content that is the most relevant.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A unrecommended technique that overloads a webpage with keywords, often to the detriment of user experience, to attempt to manipulate a site\u2019s search engine ranking.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A single webpage on a site, arrived after clicking a link, that has content relevant to the visitor\u2019s search query to boost conversion.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The visual and structural composition of a page.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The value and authority transferred from one web page to another via links. It affects the web page rank in search engine results.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>An online account service provider that allows ecommerce businesses to accept debit and credit payments, and temporarily holds the money, until it is transferred to the business\u2019 bank account.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Information in a web page, not seen by the visitor, but used by search engines to determine the page title, description and keywords.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The use of wireless electronic mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets to buy and sell products and services online.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The number of recipients who open an email.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The use of third-party suppliers to fulfil parts of a business\u2019 operation in order to reduce overhead costs or fill a resource gap.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The online path (however convoluted) taken by visitors to become customers.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A set of requirements to ensure you protect your customers\u2019 credit card information when stored, processed or transmitted.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>An ecommerce service that allows online stores to accept and process multiple payment methods such as credit and debit cards, direct debits, bank transfers and real-time online banking.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Where a business pays only when someone clicks an ad and is directed to its website.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Software that lets an online store accept transactions, manage inventory, add products, process payments, and send receipts digitally.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A transaction where a customer authorises an online store to automatically charge a credit card for the regular delivery of products or services.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A file placed on a website to tell a search engine which pages not to index.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Really Simple Syndication. A technology that syndicates web content and allows users to subscribe to product feeds, blogs and websites.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The improvement of a website\u2019s content to make it easier for search engines to index the site and to drive up its natural search ranking.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Search Engine Results Page<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The transfer of a product from a seller\u2019s warehouse to a customer\u2019s delivery address.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A virtual representation of a shopping cart or bag that lists the items a customer has chosen to buy.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The right or left column that appears to one side of the main content.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A page that provides search engines with an efficient route through your website.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A promotional page normally displayed before the home page is viewed.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A mechanism to validate the merchant and encrypt sensitive information such as credit cards.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Content that does not change frequently.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A unique alphanumeric identification code for each product or service in your business\u2019s inventory.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A package that contains graphics and appearance information to customise the look and feel of your website.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A measure of how long, in days, it takes your website visitors to become customers.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>An external service that helps merchants accept and process online payments even without a merchant account (such as PayPal).<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A record of the actions taken for each order.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>An automated email sent in response to a specific transaction such as an order.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A software product sold as complete and ready to operate.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>User interface. The look and feel, presentation and interactivity of a website.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A technique to encourage customers to upgrade a purchase or to buy a more expensive version of a product to maximize the value of the order.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>Uniform Resource Locator. The unique address of a web page.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The degree to which a website is easy to navigate.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>User experience on a website or any interaction the user makes.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A transaction that cancels a purchase that has not been completed.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>The collection, measurement and analysis of website data to understand the online behaviour of visitors in order to optimize the site experience and improve conversion.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>A snippet of code that adds functionality or dynamic effect to your website.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/strong>What You See Is What You Get. A program that allows a developer to see what the end result will look like during creation.<\/p>\n