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Marketing terms, defined plainly
Core Web Vitals: Google’s user-experience metrics (LCP, INP, CLS) that influence search rankings and conversions.
EEAT: Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trust. Google’s rubric for how credible a page is, especially in YMYL topics.
ROAS: Return on Ad Spend, or revenue divided by ad spend. The key profitability metric for paid campaigns.
tROAS: Target ROAS, a Google Ads bid strategy that optimizes bids to hit a specified return target.
Performance Max: Google’s automated campaign type spanning Search, Shopping, YouTube, Display and Gmail.
SERP: Search Engine Results Page, the page Google returns for a query, including ads, organic results, the map pack and other features.
Local Pack: The 3-result map cluster Google shows for local searches.
Schema markup: Structured data (JSON-LD) that helps Google understand a page and enables rich results.
LSA: Local Services Ads, Google’s pay-per-lead product for eligible service businesses.
Attribution: The rules used to credit conversions to marketing touchpoints across the buyer journey.
CAC: Customer Acquisition Cost, total marketing spend divided by new customers acquired.
GA4: Google Analytics 4, the event-based analytics platform that replaced Universal Analytics.