Paydirt Design Web Glossary

Feed Reader - RSS Reader

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:45:07 MDT

There are many different types of feed readers. The ones that internet users are most familiar with are the ones they use regularly. Adding RSS feed subscriptions to My Yahoo! or My Google, or Live Bookmarks are what most people see... Read more...

RETS - Real Estate Transaction Standard

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:51:18 MDT

As a Realtor, real estate agency, or real estate agent, you want to list property information on your web site to entice real estate buyers to request a showing or make a purchase. You also want to list available properties on your real estate web site to show sellers that you can move their properties... Read more...

IDX - Internet Data Exchange

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:33:48 MDT

The MLS has been around for years, allowing real estate agents and Realtors to share information about their real estate listings, so that multiple agents in an area can work on selling a property. This is of great advantage to both real estate buyers and real estate sellers... Read more...

Search Ranking - Results Ranking

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:07:12 MDT

Search ranking matters to most site owners, because many web site visitors will first find your web site through a search engine... Read more...

Country-Code Top-Level Domain Name - CCTLD

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:49:04 MDT

If you are targeting users in a particular country, or if you particularly want to identify the country your business or organization is operating in, you may want to choose a domain with a CCTLD, rather than a Global Top-Level Domain Name. For a multi-national organization, having specific web sites for the specific areas the organization serves that are localized including a local domain name with the proper country code can help promote the business in that region... Read more...

Global Top-Level Domain Name - GTLD

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:18:53 MDT

The Global Top-Level Domain Names are the most popular choices for companies in the U.S., and in many locations around the world for organizations when selecting a domain name. The most common of these is ".com," which is intended to indicate that a web site is for commercial purposes... Read more...

Top-Level Domain Name - TLD

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:57:04 MDT

When you register a domain name for the web site for your business or organization, choosing a top level domain name is part of that decision process... Read more...

Mashup

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:12:09 MDT

Your business may have multiple web sites, may have information stored in different systems within your web site, or may need to display information provided by a partner or third-party vendor as part of a central web site... Read more...

Web User - User

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:46:16 MDT

Web users are an important consideration in any web site design or web development project... Read more...

Feed - RSS Feed

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:00:53 MDT

Just as various wire services will syndicate news to different newspapers and media outlets, a RSS feed can syndicate your web site content onto other web sites, or into people's feed readers... Read more...

Server Log - Log Files

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:54:44 MDT

The most obvious use of log files is tracking web site traffic: how many people come to your web site, and how many pages do they look at. The server logs are not the only way to track your web site traffic, but log file analysis is used by many small businesses and organizations to track how much traffic they receive... Read more...

Search Results - Results

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:19:36 MDT

Many people will find your web site, at least initially, by searching at their favorite search engine and then seeing a link to your web site from those search results... Read more...

PageRank

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:42:15 MDT

PageRank is an important term in SEO (Search Engine Optimization)... Read more...

Keyword Relevance - Relevance

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:24:10 MDT

For most business owners and organization directors, having their web site available from the search engines is very important. The keyword relevance of each web page on your web site is directly related to the likelihood that a page on your web site will be displayed in the search results for any particular search... Read more...

Contextual Links - Embedded Links

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:26:52 MDT

All links have some positive impact on your web site's ranking in the search engines - your SEO. Contextual links have the added benefit of the search engine being able to better understand the meaning and relevance of the target page by the context in which the embedded link is found in the content of the web page. From a SEO standpoint, organic links which are also contextual links are the best links to get... Read more...