Glossary of Terms

Term Definition
Address Bar Tynt Insight provides the ability to track when people visit your site using a URL that was previously copied from the address bar of their browser. This is a Tynt Insight premium feature.
Attributed copy A text copy that includes at least 7 words. Tynt Insight will automatically add an Attribution link to this text.
Attribution Link The line of text that Tynt Insight automatically adds to copied content, containing a hypertext link back to the source of the copied material (usually your website).
AutoTweet Tynt Insight provides a service that will automatically generate Tweets on Twitter. Our Tweets use Tynt Insight's unique knowledge of what is currently the most engaging content on your site based upon people's copy behavior. Whenever someone follows the link in a Tynt Insight generated Tweet back to your site, we count that as an AutoTweet generated link. This is a Tynt premium feature.
Copies Copies refers to the total number of times content was copied from your site and includes Attributed copies, Search copies and Image copies
Generated Links

See Attributed Copies

The number of links created by Tynt Insight every time someone copies text 7 words or greater.
Generated Views The number of Page Views that resulted from people visiting your site using a link generated by Tynt Insight. The number of page views will frequently be higher than the Visits count because people will visit multiple pages on your site once they get there using a Tynt Insight generated link.
Heat Map A rendering of a web page, that uses color-coded gradients to indicate the frequency at which text is copied from the page. Red indicates the most heavily copied content.
Image Copy This is a copy from your site that contained only image data.
Increase The percentage increase in page views that resulted from people following Tynt Insight generated links.
Links Followed This is the number of links that were generated for your site by Tynt Insight and were then actually followed by people. A link created that no one clicked on is not counted.
Most Engaging Content An overview of the pages on your site that had the heaviest copy activity.
Other
(sources of links)
A count of the number of time people followed Tynt Insight generated links to your site from locations other than an Attribution link, Visualizer or AutoTweet. This could include the Tynt home page visualizer or Tynt trend portals.
Page Views

See also Generated Views

The number of times a page or site was viewed.
Search Copy This is a text copy of less than 7 words. Typically, these copies consist of proper names or terms that are then pasted into a search engine. Tynt Insight does not add attribution links to search copies.
SEO Search Engine Optimization - commonly used to refer to the process of maximizing the number of links to a given web site that are visible to the popular search engines such as Google.
SEO Links - Bronze The number of Tynt Insight generated links that have been followed where there was no referrer information, or the referrer information lists domain that will not be indexed (e.g. webmail client). This commonly occurs if the link resides in an email message.
SEO Links - Gold The number of Tynt Insight generated links that were clicked on by people and have valid referrer information in the page request. These links are certain to improve SEO ratings.
SEO Links - Silver The number of Tynt Insight generated links that were produced but have not yet been followed back to your website. They may be visible to search engines such as Google, but we will not know until they are followed.
Top Images A display of the most heavily copied images from you site.
Top Words A display of the most heavily copied words from your site.
Tynt impact on Pages A detailed listing of the pages, where Tynt Insight increased the page views to your site.
Visits, Generated Visits This is the number of times people visited your site using a link generated by Tynt Insight.
Visualizer
(sources of links)
Tynt Insight provides several different displays that provide a near real time display of what content is being copied from a site. When people see content in one of these visualizers that they want to read about, they can click on the visualizer and be taken to your website to see the original article. Each time this occurs, it is counted as a Followed Link from a Visualizer.
Where your content is going A listing of sites to which content from you web pages has been pasted.
Word Copies The total number of words copied from your site, including both Attribution copies and Search copies.