Website Glossary

Changing your sitemap.xml link to the Automatic Default sitemap.xml is an important step in cleaning up your website.

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A Custom 404 Page enhances the appearance of your websites when users visit a non-existent or broken link associated with your domain.

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Social Plugins allow your website to communicate with social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc. through the use of pins and widgets in the header/footer of your site.

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An Auto Sitemap automatically generates a sitemap in xml form for your website. This is efficient as it automatically updates itself with Google whenever new pages are added to your site.

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Allowing images to show up in search engines can greatly increase the audience of your site. Initially your CMS will automatically block this but this can be unblocked with a few changes to your sites robots.txt.

To force www. upon websites is to automatically place www. in front of ‘naked’ links typed into a browser.

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A 404 requests manager presents the you with a list of URLs that were requested but not found on your website. It is useful as it directs you towards signs of bad links on your site and links that have not been provided automatic redirects.

The URL Manager presents the user with all search engine friendly (SEF) URLs that have created.

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A Meta Data Manager creates a list of articles to allow for easier and more managed access of meta data. Essentially it creates extra fields to let the user search, edit and update  the meta data keywords more efficiently and manage them through the use of sorting and other facilities. Read More

How long it takes the internet to refresh its cache and begin pointing to the new DNS. This process may take 4 to 48 hours. Read More

Modules are more lightweight and flexible extensions used for page rendering. These modules are mostly known as the “boxes” that are arranged around a component, for example: the login module. The footer is a module. Modules are assigned per menu item. So, you can decide to show or hide the logon module depending on which menu item the user is viewing. Sometimes modules are linked to components such as the “latest news” module which links to the com_content and displays links to the newest content items. However, modules do not need to be linked to components, as a matter of fact they don’t even need to be linked to anything and can be just static HTML or text.

Examples: Banners (mod_banners), Menus (mod_menu), Who’s Online (mod_whosonline)

Management feature: Admin head menu > “Extensions” > “Module Manager” Read More

The act of writing copy (text) for the purpose of advertising or marketing a product, business, person, opinion or idea. The addressee (reader, listener, etc.) of the copy is meant to be persuaded to buy the product advertised for, or subscribe to the viewpoint the text shares. Read More

No Terminal (Credit Card Machine) used to process payments. Payments processed solely online. Read More

A credit card machine (terminal) is defined a the electronic processing unit a merchant need in his establishment to process a payment. Customer payments are put through a website and processed through a Credit Card Machine. Read More

The funds specifically for the Search Engine Ads, .e.g. $100 to be spent on the display of ads on the Google Network. Read More

The cost required to manage the Search Engine Ads for a specific amount of time, including keyword, bids and ads monitoring and competitor ads research. Read More

The ability to accept payment through PayPal.

The ability to accept payment from a credit card. Including VISA and Mastercard.

A type of account that allows businesses to accept payments.

Upon completion of checkout using a credit card, the customers credit card details will be sent via two methods; half through email, half through your website’s backend. This is a safety measure to protect the customers credit card details.