11 essential internet marketing acronyms

CGM: Consumer Generated Media- Information that is created and shared by consumers via social media. For example, image sharing on Flickr or stories on Digg.

CPM: Cost per thousand- Typically used in banner advertising, it is an online advertising model where the advertiser pays a fixed fee for every 1,000 impressions for their ad.

CTR: Click through rate- The average number of clicks per hundred ad impressions, expressed as a percentage.

PPC: Pay Per Click-An online advertising model where the advertiser only pays when someone clicks on their ads.

PR: Page Rank- A formula developed by Larry Page, co-founder of Google. This formula rates the search engine importance of a webpage out of 10.

RSS: Rich Site Summary/Really Simple Syndication- RSS is like your own personal wire service. When a person signs up for an RSS Feed, it is usually for a webpage that is updated often. They get notified when the update is done so that they don’t have to keep going back to the site to look for them.

SEM: Search Engine Marketing-The process of marketing your website on search engines via paid advertising.

SEO: Search Engine Optimization- The process of optimizing a website so that it has a higher ranking for relevant searches on search engines.

SERPS: Search engine results pages-The results page that shows up for relevant search on search engines. Your aim should be for your website to show up on page 1.

SMM: Social Media Marketing- The process of marketing a website, cause or product in social media networks.

SMO: Social Media Optimization-Optimizing a webpage so that the content on it can be shared easily within social networks.

Using Hubpages, Social Bookmarking and Blogging to earn a high adsense income

Making money online is both easy and difficult. Allow me to explain.

Anyone can make money online, but not everyone can make a living online. It takes time and effort to make serious money online.

The above video showcases just one such method. It uses a combination of Article Marketing, Social Bookmarking and Blogging to drive traffic to your posts and increase your Adsense Income.

Here are the highlights:

• Create an article on Hubpages or Squidoo.
• Monetize your article.
• Bookmark your article using popular bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and others. This drives traffic to your article.
• Bookmark your article using some other, lower ranked bookmarking sites like SheToldMe.com and Xomba.com. These sites drive traffic, provide a high PR backlink and share Adsense revenue with you.
• Create a unique, related blog post and link to your article.
• Monetize the blog.
• Submit the blog to social bookmarking websites as well.
• Create backlinks for your article and your blog post on other forums and blogs.
• Rinse, repeat! Create other related articles and link them to each other as well.

Using this method, you can create a network of sites that are interlinked and offer you the opportunity to earn additional revenue. You will not become a millionaire overnight using this method, but your income will increase steadily.

Important Notes:

• Make sure that all your posts and backlink descriptions are unique.
• Most "get rich quick" schemes are a scam. However, if you work hard and use honest techniques, you are guaranteed to make money.
• Making money is a marathon, not a sprint. Set up a good foundation and work hard, the money will take care of itself.

Stay tuned for more ideas and methods on how to make money. Good luck in your efforts.