Have you ever run across a web marketing related abbreviation and not known what it means?

Use this acronyms and Initialisms list as reference and do not hesitate to point out omitted entries.

0-9

• 3GPP - Third Generation Partnership Project

A

• ABBR - Abbreviation
• ALT - Alternate
• AJ - Ask Jeeves
• AOL - America Online (Internet Service Provider)
• AOTW – Authors On The Web
• ARIN – American Registry For Internet Numbers
• ASAP - As Soon As Possible
• AVS - Age Verification System

B

• B2B - Business To Business
• BIZ - Business
• BL - BackLinks
• BRB - Be Right Back
• BURP – Banner Url Rotation Program
• BZ - Social Business

C

• CC - Carbon Copy (Emailing)
• CGI - Common Gateway Interface
• CIRA - Canadian Internet Registration Authority
• CIW - Certified Internet Webmaster
• CMR – Certified Marketing Representative
• CMD - Certified Marketing Director
• CMS - Content Management System
• CPA - Cost Per Action, Cost Per Acquisition
• CPI - Cost Per Impression
• CPL - Cost Per Lead
• CPM - Cost Per Thousand Impressions
• CO - Company
• COM - Communication, Command
• CRO - Customer Relationship Optimization
• CSE - Custom Search ENgine
• CSS - Cascading Style Sheet
• CTR - Click Through Rate

D

• DC - Data Center
• DIY - Do It Yourself
• DM – Direct Marketing
• DMA - Direct Marketing Analysis
• DMOZ - Directory Mozilla
• DMT – Digital Marketing Technology
• DNS - Domain Name System

E

• ECOM - e-Commerce
• EFMA - European Financial Management and Marketing Association
• EMAIL - Electronic Mail
• EMM - Enterprise Marketing Management
• EPC - Earnings Per Click

F

• FTP – File Transfer Protocol
• FWIW - For What It’s Worth

G

• GMAS – Global Marketing Advantage System

H

• HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
• HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol

I

• IBL – Inbound Link
  
• ICRA – Internet Content Rating Association
• IE – Internet Explorer
• IP - Internet Protocol
• IPB - Internet Business Promoter
• IRC - Internet Relay Chat
• ISP - Internet Service Provider

J

K

L

• LMA – Local Marketing Agreement
• LOL - Laugh Out Loud

M

• M&A – Marketing and Advertising
• MD - Marketing Director
• MENG - Marketing Executive Networking Group
• MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
• MLM - Multi Level Marketing
• MPR - Marketing and Public Relations
• MRM - Multi Resource Management
• MRP - Marketing Research Planning
• MS - Microsoft, Marketing Strategy
• MSN - Microsoft Network

N

• NGI – Next Generation Internet
• NM - Network Marketing
• NWN – NetWork Marketing
• NSFW - Not Safe For Work
• NSI - Network Solution

O

• OBL - Outbound Link
• OP – Operation, Original Poster
• ORG – Organization
• OWBL – One Way BackLink
  

P

• PC - Personal Computer
• PDF - Portable Document Format
• PPC - Pay Per Click
• PR - PageRank™ (Google), Press Releases

Q

• Q1 - First Quarter
• Q2 - Second Quarter
• Q3 - Third Quarter
• Q4 - Fourth Quarter

R

• REL - Release
• ROI - Return On Investment
• RON - Run Of Network (Internet Advertising)
• ROS - Run Of Site (Internet Advertising)
• RSS - Really Simple Syndication
• RSVP – Resource Reservation Protocol

S

• SE - Search Engine
• SEM - Search Engine Marketing
• SEMM - Search Engine Marketing Management
• SEMPO - Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization
• SEO - Search Engine Optimization
• SERP - Search Engine Results Page
• SMB - Small Business
• SME - Search Marketing Engineer
• SSL - Secure Socket Layout

T

U

• UV – Unique Visitor
  

V

• VNM – Viral Network Marketing
• VOD - Video On Demand
• VOIP - Voice over Internet Protocol

W

• WAOM - Web Application Optimization and Monitoring
• WMR - Web Marketing Resources
• WOMM – Word Of Mouth Marketing
• WP - WordPress
• WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get
• WWW – W3 - World Wide Web

X

• XML – Extensible Markup Language

Y

• YSM – Yahoo Search Marketing

Z

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