Digital Marketing Glossary

Need to know your sessions from your sources? Digital marketing is full of terms that can confuse the unwary. If you are running any digital campaigns, we’ve put together a glossary of terms that you’re likely to encounter.

You can take a look below, or download our Digital Marketing Glossary here.

KHL Digital Marketing Glossary

Bounce rate

The percentage of visitors to a website that leave immediately without clicking or interacting with any portion of the page. For example, if 100 people visit a website, and 50 of them immediately leave, the website has a bounce rate of 50%.

Call to action (CTA)

The part of the advert or marketing content that attempts to persuade the viewer to take an action.

Click (email)

Every time a link, advert or promotional email is clicked on. 

Click rate (email)

The number of clicks in an email campaign divided by the total number of emails delivered.

Click-through rate (CTR)

A metric showing how often people click on an ad or search result after they see it. It can be calculated by dividing the number of clicks, by the number of impressions (how many times the ad or search result was seen). This ratio can be useful when determining whether the messaging matches what the consumer is searching for, and if it resonates with them. A higher click-through-rate means more engagement, which generally leads to more quality conversions.

Conversion rate

The percentage of website visitors who take a desired action.

Impression

An impression is counted every time an advert or search result appears on someone’s screen.

Keyword

A word or phrase indicative of the major theme in a piece of content. When you search for something in a search engine, you type in a keyword and the search engine gives you results based on that keyword. One major Goal of SEO is to have your website show in searches for as many relevant keywords as possible.

Landing page

The destination webpage a user lands on after clicking on a link.

Open

Every time an email is opened. 

Open rate

The number of times emails from one campaign are opened divided by the total number of delivered emails.

Pay-per-click (PPC)

An online advertising model in which advertisers are charged for their ad once it is clicked. The PPC model is commonly associated with search engine and social media advertising.

Query

The term given for what a user types and searches using search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

Referral

A medium denoted in Google Analytics that represents a website visit that came from another website (as opposed to coming from a Google search, for example). When users click on a link to another, external webpage, they are said to have been “referred” there.

Search engine optimisation (SEO)

The practice of increasing the number of relevant people that come to your website and are exposed to your brand through non-paid, organic search engine results.

Sessions

A term in Google Analytics that helps webmasters classify where traffic is coming from (ie. the “source” of the web traffic). Source can be a search engine (for example, Google) or a domain (website-example.com)

Source

A term in Google Analytics that helps webmasters classify where traffic is coming from (ie. the “source” of the web traffic). Source can be a search engine (for example, Google) or a domain (website-example.com)

Unique click

The number of times an individual clicked on a link in an email campaign. Repeated clicks are not counted.

Unique click rate

The number of unique clicks on one email campaign divided by the total number of delivered emails.

Unique open

Number of individuals who open an email campaign.

Unique open rate

The number of individuals who open an email campaign divided by the total delivered emails.

Users

A metric used in web analytics to show how many different, unique people view a website over a period of time. Unique visitors are tracked by their IP addresses. If a visitor visits the same website multiple times, they will only be counted once in the unique visitors metric.