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Conversion
Successful completion of a web-based task, as defined by whoever is tracking for the conversion. Typical conversions are things like signing up for a newsletter, the sale of a particular product, or clicking on an ad.
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Email Bounce
Email Bounces are emails that don’t deliver. This can be due to several potential reasons, including deleted email addresses, those that are typed incorrectly, inboxes that aren’t monitored and are full, unable to accept new messages, or those with strict filters that block certain message types.
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Black Hat Tactics
Black Hat Tactics refer to a range of practices that increase a website’s ranking with search engines that are explicitly against the rules established by those engines.
One common example is keyword stuffing, which refers to spamming particular keywords on a page in order to try to rank for those topics. This sacrifices the user experience, since the page is not informational or useful, and is merely attempting to trick search engines.
In general, some black hat tactics may increase a site’s ranking temporarily, but will inevitably damage the site’s reputation and effectiveness long-term.
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Pagerank
Pagerank is an algorithm developed by Google that is used to estimate how important a particular page is. The primary way this is determined is through analysis of links to that page from outside sources.
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