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B2B
B2B stands for Business to Business. It refers to businesses whose services or products are intended for other businesses, rather than direct to individual customers (B2C). Some industries, such as financial services, can be both B2B and B2C depending on the type of services being offered.
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e-Commerce
Any consumer good or service where the transaction takes place online. Some sites, such as Amazon, are almost exclusively dedicated to e-Commerce.
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HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, or HTTPS, indicates the use of specific encryption on web browsers. It is used by numerous websites and is considered a best practice for encrypting your site against certain types of malicious attacks.
You can see whether or not a site is using HTTPS by viewing the full URL of a webpage, which is often either http:// or https:// with the latter using the encryption.
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Crawl
In web terms, crawling refers to minimally invasive programs that scan webpages and entire websites to catalog their content. Websites should be crawlable and easily interpreted by these programs so that your site is properly represented on search engines like Google and Bing.
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