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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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CSS
Stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is utilized in website design. CSS is used to establish visual parameters for coded elements of a website that are written in other coding languages, such as HTML or XML. Stated more plainly, CSS primarily relates to how your website looks. Many of the layout and graphical elements on sites are designed using CSS parameters.
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Dofollow
A tag applied to a hyperlink on a website to indicate to search engines that the destination link is one of quality. Dofollow links can be a great way to build your website’s authority with search engines, since they indicate that many other websites trust yours for information related to a specific topic.
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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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