Beginner's Guide To A New Internet Business
Internet Terms Explained
A Brief Definition of Internet Terms
Website - A site (location) on the World Wide Web. Each Web site contains a home page, which is the first document users see when they enter the site. The site might also contain additional documents and files. Each site is owned and managed by an individual, company or organization.
Website Hosting - Hosting (also known as Web site hosting) is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites. More important than the computer space that is provided for Web site files is the fast connection to the Internet. Typically, an individual business hosting its own site would require a similar connection and it would be expensive. Using a hosting service lets many companies share the cost of a fast Internet connection for serving files.
Domain Name - A domain name locates an organization or other entity on the Internet. For example, the domain name
www.totalbaseball.com
locates an Internet address or "totalbaseball.com" at Internet point 199.0.0.2 and a particular host server named "www". The "com" part of the domain name reflects the purpose of the organization or entity (in this example, "commercial") and is called the top-level domain name. The "totalbaseball" part of the domain name defines the organization or entity and together with the top-level is called the second-level domain name. The second-level domain name maps to and can be thought of as the "readable" version of the Internet address.
URL - A URL (Uniform Resource Locator, previously Universal Resource Locator) - usually pronounced by sounding out each letter but, in some quarters, pronounced "Earl" - is the unique address for a file that is accessible on the Internet. A common way to get to a Web site is to enter the URL of its home page file in your Web browser's address line. However, any file within that Web site can also be specified with a URL. Such a file might be any Web (HTML) page other than the home page, an image file, or a program such as a common gateway interface application or Java applet. The URL contains the name of the protocol to be used to access the file resource, a domain name that identifies a specific computer on the Internet, and a pathname, a hierarchical description that specifies the location of a file in that computer.
On the Web (which uses the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP), an example of a URL is:
Website Hosting - Hosting (also known as Web site hosting) is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites. More important than the computer space that is provided for Web site files is the fast connection to the Internet. Typically, an individual business hosting its own site would require a similar connection and it would be expensive. Using a hosting service lets many companies share the cost of a fast Internet connection for serving files.
Domain Name - A domain name locates an organization or other entity on the Internet. For example, the domain name
www.totalbaseball.com
locates an Internet address or "totalbaseball.com" at Internet point 199.0.0.2 and a particular host server named "www". The "com" part of the domain name reflects the purpose of the organization or entity (in this example, "commercial") and is called the top-level domain name. The "totalbaseball" part of the domain name defines the organization or entity and together with the top-level is called the second-level domain name. The second-level domain name maps to and can be thought of as the "readable" version of the Internet address.
URL - A URL (Uniform Resource Locator, previously Universal Resource Locator) - usually pronounced by sounding out each letter but, in some quarters, pronounced "Earl" - is the unique address for a file that is accessible on the Internet. A common way to get to a Web site is to enter the URL of its home page file in your Web browser's address line. However, any file within that Web site can also be specified with a URL. Such a file might be any Web (HTML) page other than the home page, an image file, or a program such as a common gateway interface application or Java applet. The URL contains the name of the protocol to be used to access the file resource, a domain name that identifies a specific computer on the Internet, and a pathname, a hierarchical description that specifies the location of a file in that computer.
On the Web (which uses the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP), an example of a URL is:
HTML Code - HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the set of markup symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a World Wide Web browser page. The markup tells the Web browser how to display a Web page's words and images for the user. Each individual markup code is referred to as an element (but many people also refer to it as a tag). Some elements come in pairs that indicate when some display effect is to begin and when it is to end.
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ClickBank and/or PayPal - these are service providers (like a bank) that allow your website to send or receive funds on the Internet. If someone is purchasing from your website they will use this service to purchase and you will use this service to receive the funds. These are secure ways to transfer money over the Internet.
Link or Hyperlink - Using hypertext, a link is a selectable connection from one word, picture, or information object to another. In a multimedia environment such as the World Wide Web, such objects can include sound and motion video sequences. The most common form of link is the highlighted word or picture that can be selected by the user (with a mouse or in some other fashion), resulting in the immediate delivery and view of another file. The highlighted object is referred to as an anchor. The anchor reference and the object referred to constitute a hypertext link.
Although most links do not offer the user a choice of types of link, it would be possible for the user to be provided a choice of link types, such as: a definition of the object, an example of it, a picture of it, a smaller or larger picture of it, and so forth. Links are what make the World Wide Web a web.
Search Engine - A program that helps users find information displayed on Web pages or other text files. A typical example of a search engine would be Google.com or Ask.com which most of us have used. Search engines are absolutely key to establishing your presence on the web, if you're not listed on a search engine you don't exist on the Internet ... it's that important.
Google AdSense - is a fast and easy way for website publishers to display relevant, unobtrusive Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money. Because the ads are related to what your users are looking for on your site, you have a way to both monetize and enhance your content pages. It's also a way for web site publishers to provide Google search to their site users, and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages. The program is free, and combines pay-per-click and pay-per-impression advertising - meaning you get paid for valid clicks on the ads on your site or search results pages as well as impressions on your content pages. This is a great way to add credibility to your website and ... of course ... it's free. Visit Google Adsense to sign up for free.
IP Address - Every computer that communicates over the Internet is assigned an IP address that uniquely identifies the device and distinguishes it from other computers on the Internet. An IP address consists of 32 bits, often shown as 4 octets of numbers from 0-255 represented in decimal form instead of binary form. An example of an IP address would be
168.212.226.204
ClickBank and/or PayPal - these are service providers (like a bank) that allow your website to send or receive funds on the Internet. If someone is purchasing from your website they will use this service to purchase and you will use this service to receive the funds. These are secure ways to transfer money over the Internet.
Link or Hyperlink - Using hypertext, a link is a selectable connection from one word, picture, or information object to another. In a multimedia environment such as the World Wide Web, such objects can include sound and motion video sequences. The most common form of link is the highlighted word or picture that can be selected by the user (with a mouse or in some other fashion), resulting in the immediate delivery and view of another file. The highlighted object is referred to as an anchor. The anchor reference and the object referred to constitute a hypertext link.
Although most links do not offer the user a choice of types of link, it would be possible for the user to be provided a choice of link types, such as: a definition of the object, an example of it, a picture of it, a smaller or larger picture of it, and so forth. Links are what make the World Wide Web a web.
Search Engine - A program that helps users find information displayed on Web pages or other text files. A typical example of a search engine would be Google.com or Ask.com which most of us have used. Search engines are absolutely key to establishing your presence on the web, if you're not listed on a search engine you don't exist on the Internet ... it's that important.
Google AdSense - is a fast and easy way for website publishers to display relevant, unobtrusive Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money. Because the ads are related to what your users are looking for on your site, you have a way to both monetize and enhance your content pages. It's also a way for web site publishers to provide Google search to their site users, and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages. The program is free, and combines pay-per-click and pay-per-impression advertising - meaning you get paid for valid clicks on the ads on your site or search results pages as well as impressions on your content pages. This is a great way to add credibility to your website and ... of course ... it's free. Visit Google Adsense to sign up for free.
IP Address - Every computer that communicates over the Internet is assigned an IP address that uniquely identifies the device and distinguishes it from other computers on the Internet. An IP address consists of 32 bits, often shown as 4 octets of numbers from 0-255 represented in decimal form instead of binary form. An example of an IP address would be
168.212.226.204
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These terms are presented here to hopefully give you a little more information than you had before you read them. Knowing these terms and having a working understanding of them will help you particularly in the creation, setting up and continuous development of your website. Some of the descriptions are somewhat technical and may make this all seem too complicated but ... don't worry, once you start working on your site these terms will become commonplace to you and will virtually become a second language, don't be intimidated, you can always use this page as a reference and for terms not listed you can do an Internet search (using Google, or whatever search engine you prefer) and find just about anything you might need. One definition finder I use is http://www.webopedia.com/
These terms are presented here to hopefully give you a little more information than you had before you read them. Knowing these terms and having a working understanding of them will help you particularly in the creation, setting up and continuous development of your website. Some of the descriptions are somewhat technical and may make this all seem too complicated but ... don't worry, once you start working on your site these terms will become commonplace to you and will virtually become a second language, don't be intimidated, you can always use this page as a reference and for terms not listed you can do an Internet search (using Google, or whatever search engine you prefer) and find just about anything you might need. One definition finder I use is http://www.webopedia.com/
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