AI Marketing Glossary

AI Marketing Terms

Search-Everywhere Optimization

An evolution of SEO that optimizes for all discovery surfaces—AI, voice, maps, social, and traditional search.

Schema Automation

Automatically generating and updating structured data (JSON-LD) so websites stay machine-readable without manual coding.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

A method where AI retrieves real facts from a database before answering, improving accuracy and context.

Prompt-Templating / Prompt-Chaining

Techniques for structuring and linking AI prompts so results stay consistent and multi-step workflows run smoothly.

Model Drift & Evaluation Pipelines

Monitoring and testing AI models to detect when performance or accuracy declines over time due to changing data.

Knowledge Distillation

Teaching a smaller AI model to mimic the behavior and insights of a larger, more capable one.

Instruction-Tuning

Teaching an AI model to better follow human-style directions, improving its understanding of prompts and responses.

Fine-Tuning (LoRA / QLoRA)

A lighter, faster method to adapt AI models to specific data or tone using Low-Rank Adaptation techniques.

Embedding Vector Databases (FAISS, Chroma)

Databases that store meanings as numerical “vectors,” letting AI search by concept instead of exact words.

Digital Karma Metrics

A Real SEO™ scoring framework measuring a site’s Presence, Authority, Activity, and Health across human and AI ecosystems.

Dataset Engineering

The process of collecting, cleaning, labeling, and organizing information so AI models can learn from it effectively.

Dataset Distillation

Compressing a large dataset into a smaller, smarter version that still teaches an AI effectively.

Data Versioning (DVC / lakeFS)

Tracking and managing changes to datasets over time so every experiment or model can be reproduced with exact data versions.

AI-to-AI Communication

Direct data exchange between machines using structured formats so AIs can verify, summarize, or quote each other’s information.

AI Audit Dashboards

Interactive panels that measure how AI-ready a website or dataset is by checking schema, endpoints, and Digital Karma health.