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Plain-English definitions of every term in digital advertising, account management, and SEO. Each entry opens with a direct one-paragraph answer, followed by a deeper breakdown and related concepts. Updated continuously by the Unled Network editorial team.
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A/B Testing
A/B testing (split testing) is the practice of comparing two versions of an ad, landing page, email, or product feature against each other t...
Account Warming
Account warming is the process of gradually increasing an ad account's daily spend over 14 to 30 days so platforms learn the account is legi...
Ad Account Suspension
An ad account suspension is a platform-imposed pause on all advertising activity, triggered by policy violations, payment issues, or unusual...
Ad Rank
Ad Rank is the score Google Ads uses to determine ad position and whether an ad is eligible to show. Ad Rank = Bid x Quality Score x Expecte...
Advantage+ (Meta)
Advantage+ is Meta's family of ML-automated campaign features (Advantage+ Shopping, Advantage+ Audience, Advantage+ Creative, Advantage+ Pla...
Aged Ad Account
An aged ad account has been active for at least 6 months with consistent spend history, completed verification, and no policy violations, ra...
Agency Ad Account
An agency ad account is a Google, Meta, or TikTok advertising account issued through a certified agency partner with raised spending limits...
AI Content
AI content is text, image, audio, or video generated by large language or diffusion models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, Runway). AI...
AI SEO Strategies
AI SEO strategies are the techniques used to rank in both traditional Google Search and AI-generated answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI...
Anti-Detect Browser
An anti-detect browser creates fully isolated browsing profiles, each with its own fingerprint, cookies, WebRTC behavior, canvas hash, and p...
Anti-SEO
Anti-SEO (also called negative SEO) is the use of black-hat tactics by competitors to damage your search rankings. Common attacks include ne...
Attribution Window
An attribution window is the time period after an ad click or impression during which a conversion is credited back to that ad. Default Meta...
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CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost)
Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is the average total marketing and sales cost required to acquire one new paying customer. CAC includes ad s...
Click Fraud
Click fraud is malicious clicking on pay-per-click ads with no genuine purchase intent, designed to drain a competitor's budget or inflate p...
Cloaker
A cloaker is server-side software that shows different page content to ad platform reviewers versus real human visitors, based on IP, finger...
Conversion API (CAPI)
The Conversion API sends conversion events server-side directly to ad platforms, bypassing browser-based pixels that are blocked by iOS 14+...
Core Web Vitals
Core Web Vitals are Google's three-metric measurement of real-world user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) for loading speed, Inter...
CPA
CPA (Cost Per Acquisition) is the average ad spend required to generate one conversion: a sale, lead, signup, or other tracked action...
CPC
CPC (Cost Per Click) is the price an advertiser pays each time a user clicks an ad...
CPM
CPM (Cost Per Mille) is the price an advertiser pays for one thousand ad impressions, regardless of clicks...
Creative Fatigue
Creative fatigue is the performance decline (rising CPM, falling CTR, falling ROAS) that occurs when an ad's target audience sees the same c...
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DDoS Protection
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection is the set of network and application defenses that absorb or filter malicious traffic flood...
Demand Side Platform (DSP)
A demand-side platform (DSP) is the buying technology programmatic advertisers use to bid on display, video, audio, Connected TV and DOOH in...
DV360
Display & Video 360 (DV360) is Google's enterprise demand-side platform inside the Google Marketing Platform. It buys display, video, audio,...
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Geo Targeting
Geo targeting is the practice of serving ads only to users in specific geographic locations - country, region, city, ZIP code, or radius aro...
GMP Reseller
A GMP Certified Partner reseller is a Google-authorized agency that holds a direct Google Marketing Platform contract and resells DV360, SA3...
Google Ads Spend Limit
The Google Ads spend limit is the maximum daily amount Google allows an account to spend before requiring billing verification or manual rev...
Google Marketing Platform
Google Marketing Platform (GMP) is Google's enterprise marketing suite. It bundles Display & Video 360 (DV360), Search Ads 360 (SA360), Camp...
Google Partner Program
The Google Partner Program is Google Ads' tiered certification system (Member, Partner, Premier Partner) that recognizes agencies and indivi...
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Landing Page Experience
Landing page experience is Google Ads' assessment of how well your landing page meets visitor expectations after they click your ad. It is o...
Lookalike Audience
A lookalike audience is a custom ad audience built by an ad platform's ML to match the characteristics of a seed audience of your existing c...
LTV (Customer Lifetime Value)
Customer Lifetime Value (LTV, sometimes CLV or CLTV) is the total revenue a single customer generates across their entire relationship with ...
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Parasite SEO
Parasite SEO is the strategy of publishing optimized content on high-authority third-party domains to rank quickly in Google by borrowing th...
PBN (Private Blog Network)
A PBN is a collection of websites built or acquired by a single owner with the sole purpose of linking to a money site to manipulate Google'...
Performance Max
Performance Max (PMax) is Google Ads' fully automated campaign type that runs across all Google inventory (Search, Display, YouTube, Discove...
Prepaid Card
A prepaid card is a card loaded with a fixed balance that can be spent until depleted, with no credit line and no monthly bill. Advertisers ...
Programmatic Advertising
Programmatic advertising is the automated buying of digital ad inventory through real-time auctions on ad exchanges. Advertisers bid through...
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Remarketing List
A remarketing list is a defined audience of users who have previously interacted with your website, app, or ads, used to re-engage them with...
Residential Proxy
A residential proxy routes traffic through a real consumer device on a real ISP, giving you an IP address indistinguishable from ordinary ho...
Retargeting
Retargeting is paid advertising shown specifically to users who have already interacted with your brand, delivering 5x to 15x higher ROAS th...
ROAS
ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) is the revenue generated for every dollar spent on advertising, calculated as revenue divided by ad spend...
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SA360
Search Ads 360 (SA360) is Google's enterprise search-management platform inside the Google Marketing Platform. It manages campaigns across G...
Schema Markup
Schema markup is structured-data code (JSON-LD, Microdata, or RDFa) added to a webpage that explicitly tells search engines and AI engines w...
Search Intent
Search intent is the underlying goal a user has when typing a query into Google or asking ChatGPT - the four primary types are informational...
Smart Bidding
Smart Bidding is Google Ads' family of ML-driven automated bidding strategies (Target CPA, Target ROAS, Maximize Conversions, Maximize Conve...
Spend Limit
A spend limit is the maximum daily or monthly amount an ad platform allows an account to spend before requiring additional verification, bil...
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Topical Authority
Topical authority is the depth and breadth of content a domain has published on a specific topic, signaling to search engines and AI engines...
Tracking Pixel
A tracking pixel is a small piece of JavaScript installed on a website that fires events back to an ad platform whenever a visitor takes a t...