Glossary

Don’t know your podcasting from your vodcasting? Confused as to the meaning of search engine optimisation? And what exactly is a blog? Or blogging? Or the blogosphere?

Here for the first time, in our fabulous Online PR and Social Media Glossary (phew), are our slightly tongue-in-cheek definitions for all the latest buzzwords doing the rounds.

(And writing them kept the immediate future team amused for at least a whole afternoon!)

Any definitions you want to add? Email us at info@immediatefuture.co.uk



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Term Definition
SpamSpam, spam, spam. Monty Python sang about it. We hate it. Spam refers to the unsolicited mass emails we get everyday encouraging us to buy shares, purchase pills or invest in a llama farm in Timbuktu. Aaaaaand delete.
 
SpambotA Spambot trawls the internet creating mailing lists from the unsuspecting emails it finds on web pages, newsgroups and chat rooms. These emails are then used as targets for spam. Spambot is bad. Spambot should be sent to bed with no tea.
 
SpammingCreating and sending unsolicited mass emails or spam is known as spamming. Spamming can also mean sending unwanted text messages and instant messages – often called  spimming. Just. So. Annoying.
 
SpidersSpiders, crawlers or robots work for search engines and crawl the web gathering information on new web pages, updating old pages and deleting dead pages. Spiders are like your Nan at a jumble sale: they like to have a good old poke around. 
 
SplogsSpam blogs or splogs are fake blogs which are created to increase the search engine rankings of the sites the splog points to; to display Google’s ads; and promote affiliated sites. Splogs are different to spam in blogs which is spam comment on a regular blog. Both are sleazy.
 


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