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Apartment Locators,
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AIM Relocation offers advertisers the
opportunity to deliver messages to consumers at a time when consumers are making
the biggest purchases of their lives. There are many
forms of promotion, advertising and sponsorship opportunities
available on AIMRelocation.com.
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Glossary
- Animated GIF:
An animation created by combining
multiple GIF images into one file. The result is multiple images,
displayed one after another which give the appearance of movement.
Animated GIFs are very useful for attracting or distracting Web
surfers.
- Banner:
Typically a rectangular graphic
element which acts as an advertisement on the Web and encourages the
viewer to click on it for further information, typically on the
advertiser's Web site.
- Click-Streams:
The electronic path a user follows
while navigating from site to site, or within a site from page to
page.
- Click-Through
The act of clicking on a banner or
other ad, which takes the user through to the advertiser's Web site.
Used as a counter point to impressions to judge the response-inducing
power of the banner.
- Click-Through Rate (CTR):
The response rate of an online
advertisement, typically expressed as a percentage and calculated by
taking the number of click-throughs the ad received, dividing that
number by the number of impressions and multiplying by 100 to obtain a
percentage: Example: 20 clicks / 1,000 impressions = .02 x 100 =2% CTR
- CPA:
Cost Per Action. The price paid by
an advertiser for each "action" that a content site
delivers. "Action" may be a sale, a lead, a successful form
fill-out, a download of a software program or an e-commerce sale of a
product. Both the action, price and terms of a CPA purchase are
mutually agreed upon by the advertiser and content site, and such a
purchase typically involves a backend tracking system provided by the
advertiser that allows the content site to view clicks and actions
every 24 hours if they choose to do so.
- CPC:
Cost Per Click. The price paid by an
advertiser to a content site. When buying on a Cost Per Click model,
the advertiser and content site have mutually agreed that the content
site will continue to display the advertiser's ad creative until X
number of clicks have been delivered - the amount purchased. This
pricing model typically ranges between 10 cents CPC up to $2 CPC and
as with other forms of online advertising, is dependent on content,
audience reached and targeted delivery. Untargeted delivery is lower
priced, while ad creatives targeted to an affluent audience are at the
high end of the rate scale.
- CPM:
Cost Per Thousand (Roman Numeral)
impressions. The price paid by an advertiser for a content site
displaying their banner 1,000 times.
- CPS:
Cost Per Sale. The price paid by an
advertiser to a content site for each sale that results from a visitor
who is referred from the content site to the advertiser's site. This
type of buying model is typically tracked with cookies [http://www.cookiecentral.com/],
where the cookie is offered on the content site and read on the
advertiser's site at the success page after successful completion of
one transaction/sale. Typical rates/bounties range between five
percent and 25 percent of the retail price of the product or service
being sold. See also CPA above.
- Copy:
The printed text or spoken words in
an advertisement.
- Creative:
The concept, design and artwork that
contribute to a given advertisement.
- Daughter Windows:
See Interstitial Ads or pop up
windows.
- Demographics:
Common characteristics that allow
for population segmentation, typical demographic data points include
age, gender, postal code and income.
- Exposures:
See Impression.
- GIF:
The most common file compression
format for banner ads and most other images on the Web.
- Gross Exposures/Gross Impressions:
The total number of times an ad is shown,
including duplicate showings to the same person.
- Hits:
Every time a file is sent by a
server, be it text, graphic, video and so on, it is recorded as a hit.
Not a reliable gauge to compare different sites, as one page with five
graphic elements will register six hits when viewed, while a page with
no graphics will only register one hit.
- Impression:
The Opportunity To See (OTS) a
banner or other ad by a surfer. When a page that includes a banner is
viewed, it is considered an impression.
- Interstitial Ads:
Web pages that pop up between what
the viewer is looking at and what they are expecting to see. More like
a TV commercial than anything else on the Web (at the moment).
- Inventory:
The amount of available space for
banners on a Web site that can be delivered in a given time period.
Also known as the amount of gross impressions per month (or clicks if
the publishers is selling on a Cost Per Click rate model) available
for sale to advertisers by a Web publisher.
- IP Address:
Internet Protocol Address. A unique
number assigned to every computer on the Internet, even if only
temporarily.
- Link:
A hypertext connection between two
documents, image maps, graphics and the like.
- Opportunity To See (OTS):
A page view is an OTS, but not
necessarily an impression. The page can be downloaded but if the
banner is located at the bottom of the page and the visitor does not
scroll down, the banner is not seen.
- Page-View:
when somebody through a browser
requests a Web page. Page-views are often used to track the number of
impressions a banner gets.
- Pop-Up Window:
Web pages that pop up between what
the viewer is looking at and what they are expecting to get. More like
a TV commercial than anything else on the Web (at the moment).
- Psychographics:
Common psychological characteristics
that allow for population segmentation. Typical psychographic data
points include opinions, attitudes and beliefs about various aspects
relating to lifestyle and purchasing behavior.
- Reach:
The total number of people who will
see a given ad.
- Sell-Through Rate:
The percentage of banner or other
ads sold as opposed to traded or bartered in an ad network.
- Session:
A completed visit to a Web site by a
surfer/viewer/visitor. A session can start at the home page and last
anywhere from mere moments to hours, depending on the interest the
visitor has in the information, games and so on at the site.
- Spam
Originally posting an ad to multiple
newsgroups, now used to describe unsolicited email advertising. Named
after a skit by Monty Python, spam is one marketing and advertising
technique to avoid at all costs.
- Traffic:
The number and types of people who
come to a Web site. Measured in many different ways.
- URL:
Uniform Resource Locator - the address of any particular page on the
World Wide Web.
Example: http://www.aimrelocation.com
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