# A B C D E F G H I J k L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Use this Jargon Dictionary as a tool to find the meanings of words or terms that relate to Sponsors or their programs. Even the most veteran webmasters eventually find a term or abbreviation for something which they don't understand.

Examples of Usage
Searching using the letter links will result in terms or words that begin with that letter.

Many adult webmasters make their money by selling memberships to adult paysites of some description. It might be an adult membership site that they own themselves, some kind of AVS site, or one that they are promoting a sponsor. When surfers buy memberships to adult sites, they will most likely be charged on a recurring basis. That means that when they join a paysite, they will be allowed a certain amount of days to look around the site and charged for the privilege. If they do not cancel their membership by the end of that initial period, their credit card will be automatically charged again (or rebilled). This rebilling will continue each month until the surfer cancels his or her membership to the site. Rebilling is a perfectly normal procedure and is the way the adult web goes round. Terms on the sign-up page clearly state if rebilling will occur, and the surfer is under no circumstances tricked out of any funds. It often surprises new webmasters to learn that a lot of the time surfers are perfectly happy with rebills. While some surfers will leave after only a few hours on a site, others will allow their cards to be rebilled years. Partnership or '50/50' programs allow webmasters to benefit from recurring sales (rebills) that originate from their surfers.

Many adult webmasters make their money by selling memberships to adult paysites of some description. It might be an adult membership site that they own themselves, some kind of AVS site, or one that they are promoting a sponsor. When surfers buy memberships to adult sites, they will most likely be charged on a recurring basis. That means that when they join a paysite, they will be allowed a certain amount of days to look around the site and charged for the privilege. If they do not cancel their membership by the end of that initial period, their credit card will be automatically charged again (or rebilled). This rebilling will continue each month until the surfer cancels his or her membership to the site. Rebilling is a perfectly normal procedure and is the way the adult web goes round. Terms on the sign-up page clearly state if rebilling will occur, and the surfer is under no circumstances tricked out of any funds. It often surprises new webmasters to learn that a lot of the time surfers are perfectly happy with rebills. While some surfers will leave after only a few hours on a site, others will allow their cards to be rebilled years. Partnership or '50/50' programs allow webmasters to benefit from recurring sales (rebills) that originate from their surfers.

A redirect is where a surfer requests one webpage, and is sent away automatically to another. It's a bit like the hostage movies: where the cop goes to one phone box with the ransom money, and is told to get his ass over to one on the other side of town. (In this case, the cop being the browser). There are a number of ways that a redirect can be performed. One possibility is that a special bit of code can be placed on the server to redirect and "missing page" errors. This is done with .htaccess. Or, the webmaster could put some code in their head tags which waits a certain time and then bounces the viewer off to a designated page. Another less common (but actually more effective) method is to use a PHP or CGI script to do the redirect. This short computer program will redirect the surfer so efficiently that he or she will never even see the join.

Every time someone or something (more on that in a second) visits one of your webpages, that information is recorded. It's recorded by a computer program at your website automatically. This information is stored in a vast document on your webspace, or series of documents called referrer logs. Now, I mentioned 'someone or something'. Let's not forget that your website will be visited by more than just human beings. You'll also get visits to your website from web spiders gathering information. Every time anything accesses something on your webspace, it's recorded in the referrer logs. Referrer logs can be viewed in a number of ways: You can simply download these MONSTER-SIZED files and pour over the data, which can be very hard work! Or you can use some kind of tool to break the information down into more readable segments.

Recip is short for 'Reciprocal' and is used to describe the way two sites exchange visitors with one another. If you have an adult site, and you want to have a link to your page from someone elses, then they will normally require you to return the favour. Adding a link back to them or 'recip link' means that they can send you surfers, and you can send some back. This is how the internet works - websites providing links to other areas of interest. If a link list or TGP is 'recip', that means it requires a link from your site to theirs in before they'll list your site. If it is 'no-recip' - that means you can add your site without giving them a link back. If a webmaster says, "I added the recips on my front page" - they are saying that they added the links back to a link list or TGP their website's front page. Recip links can be simple text links, a small graphic, or (less commonly) a mix of both.

This is known as your Referral Code. This is the code, or webmaster ID you insert into your links so sponsor programs can track and credit your sales.

Total amount of clicks to a particular link or website. This includes unique and repeat visitors and will often times be higher then unique clicks