Glossary of Internet Web Terms
Registrar: Network Solutions, Go Daddy, Register are all domain registrars and host providers
Domain Name: Your domain is your website address but more specifically the yourdomain.com part, not including the http://www. part. People typically register their domains from 3-10 years at a time. Be sure to know where your domain is registered and what email they have on account for you.
Host Provider: The people you pay to publish your website, not necessarily your website designer or your registrar. Typically hosting can cost anywhere from $50-$500 per year depending on speed and bandwidth needs.
Search Engine: Google and Bing are search engines. Lycos, Ask.com, altavista.com; SearchMe.com; are all search engines driven by robots or crawlers.
Robots, Spiders or Crawlers: are automated computer programs that scan through the internet finding relationships between keywords and content as per search terms queried on Search Engines.
Portal: Yahoo! is a portal. Comcast.net is a portal. Aol.com is a portal.
Directory: DMOZ.org is a directory, Business.com is a directory. Some directories are free and most are not. But finding an industry-focused one to join can help your search rank over time.
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Internet Acronyms
ASP: active server page usually found on large shop online sites as their products are pulled actively from a database and displayed on-the-fly.
CNAME: Canonical name e.g., I need to add a CName record to my domain like http://qqq.domain.com
CSS: cascading style sheets e.g., I want my website to be driven by CSS; upgrade me
DNS: domain name server e.g., I need to repoint DNS to my new host provider
FTP: File Transfer Protocol e.g., what's your FTP login information
HTTP: hyper text transfer protocol
HTTPS: hyper text transfer protocol secured
HTML: hyper text markup language
IP: internet protocol e.g., what's your IP address?
ISP: internet service provider
POP: Post Office Protocol, this is your incoming mail server address e.g., mail.domainname.com
SEO: Search Engine Optimization
SEM: Search Engine Marketing
SEF: Search Engine Friendly, e.g., URLs
SERP: search engine results pages or positions
SSL: Secure Sockets Layer e.g., do you have an SSL certificate for your online store?
SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, this is your outgoing mail server address
URL: uniform resource locator e.g., "what's your URL?" can be the same as asking "what's your website address?"
XML: extensible markup language
