Here is our comprehensive reference guide to the most common adult web jargon! Your very own Adult Webmaster Dictionary!

Pagejacking
Pagejacking is the hijacking of a web page. A fraudster copies and saves your web page to their server. Then they add redirect codes to it and submit it to search engines as if it was theirs.

Partnership Program
Partnership or Affiliate or Sponsor Program: a revenue program that pays you a recurring percentage or fixed price for every member you send to your sponsor's site. Sample of a Partnership Program: Top Bucks. Cozy has a generous list of Partnership Programs in our Listings.

Password
A password is a special word you use to access protected documents and sites. Most services and software set-ups will require that you submit a password to protect you and them. Never forget your passwords. Write them down and put them in a safe place. Try not to store them on your computer because you never know.

Pay Per Click
Adult affiliate sponsors offer different payout programs for webmasters. One program might pay the affiliate a certain commission for each actual membership they're responsible for sending to the sponsor. Another popular payout program is the Pay Per Click program. With it, the affiliate is paid an "X" amount for each qualified banner impression his page generates. It can really add up if the webmasters's page gets a lot of traffic. TGP gallery pages are a great place to post Pay Per Click banners/text links. Cozy Pay Per Click Listings.

Pay Per Signup
When an adult webmaster affiliates with a sponsor to sell that sponsor's product, the sponsor will pay the webmaster a commission and the amount will depend on the type of payout program. One type is the Per Signup. The affiliate gets paid a fix one-time "X" amount per surfer they get to sign up for a membership to the sponsor's service. Cozy Pay Per Signup Listings.

Pay Site
An adult website where surfers have to pay a determined fee to access main content (member area) on the site.

Payouts
This is a general word applied to money paid by a sponsor to an affiliate webmaster. Some sponsors payout weekly. Most will only payout if the webmaster has reached a monetary minimum of sales for the payout period. The amount of your payout depends entirely on your sponsor and the amount of sales you generate for them.

Perl
Perl is a computer language with similar syntax to C. Many CGI (Common Gateway Interface) applications are written in Perl.

Personal Site
A personal site is another name for a Homepage. In other words, a personal site is not designed for business purposes. The free webspace your Internet Service Provider gives you would be used for a personal site. A personal site is not for making money but for showing personal interests, thoughts and hobbies.

Phishing
Phishing happens when some goofball tries to send you an email -from a fake address- which looks important. They will make it appear as if the document comes from a famous company by spoofing their real email address. Usually these folks want your personal information. If you open such an email, you took the bait, hence the fishing reference.

Phone Billing
Another term for Dialer. A dialer is a service where the user downloads a small executable file. That .exe file (software program) is basically an Internet modem connection to the servers of the dialer provider. The provider then charges the user by the minute and the user sees/pays the charge on their phone bill. Cozy Dialer Listings.

Pic Post
A site where you can submit a picture and your ad on a daily basis. They will post your picture along with your ad for their visitors to see. Check out our Pic Post Listings.

PIN
Personal Identification Number. You’ve probably got one if you have a debit or ATM card. Some sponsors will refer to your affiliate ID as a PIN.

Pixel
A pixel is a unit of measurement of color for displays and images. For instance, the average computer monitor displays a viewable area of 800 by 600 pixels.

Plug In
A plug in is a ready-made type of web "CONTENT". Content is the stuff of your site, whether it be dirty pictures or nasty fun games. Plug In content is pre-manufactured and ready to add to your page with a few HTML links. Many plug in providers will even host the content on their servers and allow you to change colors and add a logo graphic, so the plug in matches your site. If you want a complete list of Plug In Providers click here.

Plug In Pic Galleries
A plug in is a type of adult content where the plugin provider hosts the content from their server. The adult webmaster simply has to "plug it in" via hyperlink or IFRAME tag. Plugin pic galleries are galleries hosted on the servers of the plugin provider. Some providers update the galleries each day. Some update them each hour. Cozy Plug In Pic Galleries Listings.

Pop-Under
A window that loads underneath the presently open window. You'll know a pop under because it suddenly appears in the task bar. If you click the minimize button on the window you're in, you'll see the pop under. It's a subtler version of the Pop Up.

Pop-Up
A window that opens independently of the page you're already viewing in your browser. A webmaster will add a tag to their code so a new window opens after a pre-determined amount of time. As a surfer, this new window appears to "pop up" out of nowhere. Pop-ups can be big, little and with/without close buttons.

Premium Hosting
Web hosts offer different packages for different webmaster needs. If you only need a little bit of space and bandwidth, then it's probably not a good idea to pay the big bucks for a leased server where only your account resides. Premium hosting can refer to leased server space or it can refer to shared space with a larger allotment for bandwidth, storage and email accounts. It really depends on the terminology of the specific hosting company. Read the hosting packages of any provider to find out their particular services and costs. Premium Hosting Listings.

Pro Bono
This is a term meaning free service. Usually you hear this term applied to lawyers who take charity cases where the client doesn’t have to pay. Legal work done for the public good. A service that you provide at no charge.

Ratio
A ratio like this refers to banner clicks and actual sales produced from them. When a webmaster says they got a 50:1000 ratio, they mean that out of 1000 people who clicked on his sponsor banner, fifty surfers paid for memberships. Fifty out one thousand is a pretty high sales ratio. Unfortunately a ratio of three sales out of one thousand is a more realistic norm.

Raw Hit
Successful downloads of actual web pages not including images or file downloads.

Rebill
A rebill happens after you have gotten one of your surfers to sign up and pay for a membership at either your paysite or that of a sponsor. The first time your customer pays, their credit card is billed. Each time they pay for an additional month of porn access, their card is rebilled. Rebills are good because most sponsors will pay you a percentage of those rebills in addition to paying your initial sign up commission. We have a generous amount of Sponsor Listings that will make you some decent money.

Reciprocal or Return Link
To reciprocate means to respond in kind to an action. A reciprocal link is a return link. As example, when you submit a gallery to a TGP, many TGP webmasters require you to post a reciprocal link to their site on your gallery. They list you. You reciprocate by linking to them.

Record Keeping Requirements
There are certain responsibilities with running an adult website. If you host content of nude models, then you have to provide TITLE 18 information on your front page. If you register a domain name, you have to provide your name, phone number and address in your registration. If you make money selling anything on the web, you have to declare that income in your taxes. Look in the Cozy Frog Legal Help Guide for more information about record keeping requirements.

Referrer
Most surfers don't type a URL into the address box of their browser to get to your web page. Most of your surfers come from somewhere else, be it a search engine, a TGP or from another webmaster's site. A referrer is the site that sent you the surfer.

Refresh
Sometimes a page or a file changes but the change doesn’t show up. There are a lot of reasons for it but the cure is always easy. If you’ve created a new file in your My Documents folder and it still appears at the bottom of the list, then go to Menu>View>Refresh and click. If a web page you’ve just uploaded isn’t displaying your changes, then go to your browser Toolbar and click that two-way arrow Icon. This action Refreshes your page, it basicaly reloads the page for you.

Reseller
A reseller is a business where the owner sells other people’s products. There are content resellers, design resellers and even hosting resellers.

Retail Content
In the physical world a retail price is the total of wholesale cost plus markup. In other words, an item costs less when bought directly from the manufacturer than it costs when purchased from a retail store. The retailer adds a certain amount to a price tag in order to help cover operational expenses and to obtain a profit. In the adult Internet, the word "retail" is usually applied to tangible/shippable goods such as vibrators and CDs.

Retain Membership
When a paysite member continues to pay their monthly fee, they are retaining their membership. Member retention is similar to the repeat customers so desired by brick-and-mortar vendors.

Rivers
This is a term used when designing a web site. Rivers may appear if you set your type justified. A river is word spaces that appear near each other on subsequent lines of text. It is better to edit the text than to change the word spacing on a line by line basis to correct rivers. Rivers may also be a symptom that your line length is too long or too short.

ROI
Return On Investment. ROI is a calculation of what you get back from what you spend. If you spend money for a site designer, you do it because the improvement should help you make more money. If the new design doesn't help garner more sales, then you didn't get much of a return on your investment.

Row
A Row is a part of a Table. A Table is an HTML tag that lays out square cells on a web page. A one-cell Table is comprised of one column and one row. Columns run vertically. Rows run horizontally.

Royalty Free
Believe it or not, there are products, software and images that cost no money. When a person sells a picture or a story they receive a little percentage payment with each sale. That payment is called a royalty. Royalty Free doesn’t necessarily mean condition free. Most Royalty Free providers set limits of where and how you can use their free items. Look for those limitations in the TOS (Terms of Service) page so that you don't get into trouble.

RSS
RSS stands for RDF Site Summary. It's an XML application. RSS allows you to broadcast text bites of your site to a wide network of users. Many of today's bloggers use RSS feeds to broadcast their text content.

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