Glossary of Terms and Acronyms: Microsoft

Microsoft Bing Glossary of Terms: A

Audience: The group of potential customers that you care about most and try to reach with your SEM ads.

Microsoft Bing Glossary of Terms: B

Bid: Like an auction, this is the amount you’re willing to be charged for a click on your ad. It is usually a “not to exceed” amount, so the cost may actually be quite less than your bid.

Microsoft Bing Glossary of Terms: C

Click: The action a potential customer takes when selecting a link in your ad, via a mouse-click or touchscreen, for example. The clicked link may take the person to your website, to an app store page, trigger a telephone call from a mobile device or show directions to your location.

Click-through rate (CTR): The percentage of people who clicked an ad in the search results page. Measuring CTR is a common indication of how well ads or keywords are performing.

Conversion: A desired action that a person takes as a result of clicking your ad. Conversions are most commonly defined as completing a purchase, registering for an event, making a phone call, visiting a store and subscribing to a newsletter.

Cost: In pay-per-click advertising, this is the amount an advertiser pays for their ads that were clicked. You control costs by setting budget limits and selecting a narrow group of people to "target" for your ads.

Cost per acquisition (CPA): A calculation of total cost spent divided by the number of conversions the advertiser received, such as the number of new customers or purchases occurred.

Cost per click (CPC): The price an advertiser pays for a click on an ad from a potential customer. Advertisers watch this number closely as they evaluate the effectiveness of their ads.

Microsoft Bing Glossary of Terms: I

Impressions: In PPC advertising, the number of times an ad appears as a result of a search on a search engine.

Microsoft Bing Glossary of Terms: K

Keyword: Words or phrases that potential customers use in the search engine, which are the same phrases that advertisers base their ad campaigns upon. When a searcher's keyword matches the ad campaign keyword, the ad is triggered to display.

Microsoft Bing Glossary of Terms: L

Landing page: The page on your website where searchers arrive after clicking on your ad.

Microsoft Bing Glossary of Terms: O

Optimization: The process of enhancing an ad’s performance by adjusting aspects of the campaign. A few examples of optimizing might include modifying bids, changing keywords and adding targeting.

Microsoft Bing Glossary of Terms: P

Pay per click (PPC): Also known as pay-per-click advertising, this term is synonymous with SEM and paid search. It describes the billing method for this kind of advertising.

Microsoft Bing Glossary of Terms: S

Search engine marketing (SEM): The process of advertising on search engines, which involves bidding on keywords to make your ads appear on the first page of search results. Also known as PPC, paid search and search advertising.

Search engine optimization (SEO): Tactics and strategies used to improve the position of a page in the non-paid, “organic” area of the search engine results page.

Microsoft Bing Glossary of Terms: T

Targeting: A way for advertisers to narrow the focus of their SEM campaigns to a subset of possible audiences. Targeting works like a set of filters to make your ad appear based on geography, time, age, gender or device.

Microsoft Bing Glossary of Terms: U

URL: This is more commonly known as a website address, like www.commercecanal.com . The acronym stands for Uniform Resource Locator.

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