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Question: What is Web Design?

Answer: Web design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser. Web designers utilize markup language, most notably HTML for structure and CSS for presentation as well as JavaScript to add interactivity to develop pages that can be read by web browsers.

As a whole, the process of web design can include conceptualization, planning, producing, post-production, research, advertising. The site itself can be divided up into pages. The site is navigated by using hyperlinks, which are commonly blue and underlined but can be made to look like anything the designer wishes. Images can also be hyperlinks.

Question: What is HTML?

Answer: HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the main markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages.

HTML is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags, enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>), within the web page content. HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like <h1> and </h1>, although some tags, known as empty elements, are unpaired, for example <img>. The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag (they are also called opening tags and closing tags). In between these tags web designers can add text, tags, comments and other types of text-based content.

The purpose of a web browser is to read HTML documents and compose them into visible or audible web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page.

HTML elements form the building blocks of all websites. HTML allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. It can embed scripts in languages such as JavaScript which affect the behavior of HTML webpages.

Question: What is CSS?

Answer: Web browsers can also refer to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define the appearance and layout of text and other material. The W3C, maintainer of both the HTML and the CSS standards, encourages the use of CSS over explicitly presentational HTML markup.

Question: What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

Answer: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users.

SEO considers how search engines work, what people search for, the actual search terms or keywords typed into search engines and which search engines are preferred by their targeted audience. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number of backlinks, or inbound links, is another SEO tactic.

The acronym "SEOs" can refer to "search engine optimizers," a term adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees who perform SEO services in-house. Search engine optimizers may offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a broader marketing campaign. Because effective SEO may require changes to the HTML source code of a site and site content, SEO tactics may be incorporated into website development and design. The term "search engine friendly" may be used to describe website designs, menus, content management systems, images, videos, shopping carts, and other elements that have been optimized for the purpose of search engine exposure.

Question: What is Graphic Design?

Answer: The process and art of combining text and graphics and communicating an effective message in the design of logos, graphics, brochures, newsletters, posters, signs, and any other type of visual communication is the formal, short definition of graphic design. Today's graphic designers often use desktop publishing software and techniques to achieve their goals.

Question: What is Social Media?

Answer: Social media includes web-based and mobile technologies used to turn communication into interactive dialogue. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content."[1] Social media is media for social interaction as a superset beyond social communication. Enabled by ubiquitously accessible and scalable communication techniques, social media has substantially changed the way organizations, communities, and individuals communicate.[2

Question: What is ROI? (Return on Investment)

Answer: A performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare the efficiency of a number of different investments. To calculate ROI, the benefit (return) of an investment is divided by the cost of the investment; the result is expressed as a percentage or a ratio.

The return on investment formula:

Return On Investment (ROI)


In the above formula "gains from investment", refers to the proceeds obtained from selling the investment of interest.
Return on investment is a very popular metric because of its versatility and simplicity. That is, if an investment does not have a positive ROI, or if there are other opportunities with a higher ROI, then the investment should be not be undertaken.
 

Question: What is Title Tags?

Answer: The Title tag is part of the HTML code behind each Web page, and the search engines pay a lot of attention to it.  The Title tag usually gets displayed as the bold heading in a SERP result, so it should contain that page's keywords.

Question: What is Meta Tags?

Answer: Your Meta description and Meta keywords HTML tags also need to be different on every page.  The Meta description is often what shows in your SERP result as the two-lines description.  The Meta keywords tag needs to contain the keywords that are specific to the page.

Example of what Meta Tags look like in HTML on a website -

<html>
<head>
<title>Web Page Title</title>
<meta name="description" content="Web page description">
<meta name="keywords" content="Web page keywords">
</head>
 

Question: What is SERP?

Answer: A search engine results page (SERP), is the listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query. The results normally include a list of web pages with titles, a link to the page, and a short description showing where the Keywords have matched content within the page. A SERP may refer to a single page of links returned, or to the set of all links returned for a search query.

Question: What is BackLinks?

Answer: Backlinks also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links, are incoming links to a website or web page. In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node.[1]

Inbound links were originally important (prior to the emergence of search engines) as a primary means of web navigation; today, their significance lies in search engine optimization (SEO). The number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (for example, this is used by Google to determine the PageRank of a webpage). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.

Question: What is Cloud Marketing?

Answer: Cloud Marketing refers to any and all marketing efforts that take place on the Internet, aka the Cloud provided as a service.

The terminology is best understood in the context of the history of Internet marketing terminology.

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing. Over time, both abbreviations came to be slightly misleading. SEO now refers to the optimization of websites for all organic listings, or the listings for which one does NOT pay an advertising fee to the search engine. This is the section of a SERP (search engine results page) that 'organically' or 'naturally' come up when you search for a specific term. So it might be said that SEO is the art of getting the appropriate page of your website to the top of the search engines when people are looking for your products or services.

SEM or Search Engine Marketing, would seem intuitively to encompass SEO issues, but again over time, it has come to refer to the paidside of Internet Marketing, specifically PPC (Paid Per Click advertising).

In the broadest sense, one can understand the term, "Cloud Marketing" to encompass both issues, as well as a wider set of organic marketing issues, including social media marketing (SMM), mobile media marketing (MMM), banner and contextual advertising, even hosting and domain issues. If the marketing effort is performed or results in online expression and is provided by a professional in the field as a service, with detailed online reporting, it's called 'Cloud Marketing', now literally meaning 'marketing in the Cloud".

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