An individual or company who registers a domain with the sole purpose of later selling the domain on to the rightful owner of the company name which they have registered as a domain.

Sites which take (or ‘scrape’) their content exclusively from other sites.

Also known as Search Marketing, SEM is a cover-all phrase for marketing via search engines. It encompasses SEO and Paid Search.

See Search Engine Marketing

In techie speak spam refers to unsolicited or undesirable messages – these can come in many forms – examples include email spam, SMS (mobile phone message) spam, instant messenger spam, forum spam, comment spam etc.

A verb – meaning to spam – e.g. send unsolicited electronic messages.

See Also: Spam

A splash page is a webpage that a user sees just before the homepage, almost like a pre-homepage. Splash pages have many uses, e.g. to advertise a particular product, to warn users of adult content, to direct a user to the appropriate website for their country or language etc

A catch all term for potentially harmful software which is installed on a user’s computer without their knowledge or consent. The function of spyware programs can vary, but include the collection of personal data, can cause changes in computer settings, redirect browsers to other sites which can result in infecting the computer with further viruses etc.

Stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A URL is a unique character string which represents the location of a web page or resource on the internet.