Use the Search Marketing planning glossary to give every participant a shared interpretation of planning language. Adapt wording to the organization while keeping measurement, responsibility and decision terms specific enough to prevent incompatible interpretations.
Planning horizon in a Search Marketing plan
The period in which the plan is expected to guide decisions before formal refresh. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Baseline in a Search Marketing plan
The current performance or operating condition used for comparison. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Objective in a Search Marketing plan
A business change the plan intends to influence within a defined horizon. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Key result in a Search Marketing plan
A measurable signal used to judge progress toward an objective. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth. Use the evidence in Key result in a Search Marketing plan to support the specific Search Marketing Plan: Goals, Budget, Timeline, Measurement and 90-Day Execution task to evaluate Search Marketing Plan: Goals, Budget, Timeline, Measurement and 90-Day Execution as its own acquisition decision with explicit scope, controllable variables, source evidence and accepted outcomes. The adjacent Search Engine Marketing Plan page covers a different decision.
Assumption in a Search Marketing plan
A belief that must be documented and tested rather than treated as a fact. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth. In the Assumption in a Search Marketing plan section, this check matters only insofar as it helps you evaluate Search Marketing Plan: Goals, Budget, Timeline, Measurement and 90-Day Execution as its own acquisition decision with explicit scope, controllable variables, source evidence and accepted outcomes. The adjacent Search Engine Marketing Plan page covers a different decision.
Constraint in a Search Marketing plan
A limit involving budget, people, time, policy, inventory, data or operations. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth. Within the Constraint in a Search Marketing plan step, use this point to evaluate Search Marketing Plan: Goals, Budget, Timeline, Measurement and 90-Day Execution as its own acquisition decision with explicit scope, controllable variables, source evidence and accepted outcomes. The adjacent Search Engine Marketing Plan page covers a different decision.
Dependency in a Search Marketing plan
Work or evidence that must exist before another activity can start safely. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth. Apply this point inside Dependency in a Search Marketing plan; the page-specific objective is to evaluate Search Marketing Plan: Goals, Budget, Timeline, Measurement and 90-Day Execution as its own acquisition decision with explicit scope, controllable variables, source evidence and accepted outcomes.
Milestone in a Search Marketing plan
A dated state change that shows the plan has completed a meaningful stage. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth. For Search Marketing Plan: Goals, Budget, Timeline, Measurement and 90-Day Execution, connect this point to the Milestone in a Search Marketing plan decision and the task to evaluate Search Marketing Plan: Goals, Budget, Timeline, Measurement and 90-Day Execution as its own acquisition decision with explicit scope, controllable variables, source evidence and accepted outcomes.
Accepted outcome in a Search Marketing plan
A conversion or business event that passes quality and reconciliation rules. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Diagnostic metric in a Search Marketing plan
A supporting signal that helps explain why the accepted outcome changed. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth. In the Diagnostic metric in a Search Marketing plan section, this check matters only insofar as it helps you evaluate Search Marketing Plan: Goals, Budget, Timeline, Measurement and 90-Day Execution as its own acquisition decision with explicit scope, controllable variables, source evidence and accepted outcomes. The adjacent Search Engine Marketing Plan page covers a different decision.
Learning budget in a Search Marketing plan
A capped amount of spend, time or production capacity used to answer a defined question. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Stop limit in a Search Marketing plan
Make Stop limit in a Search Marketing plan specific to Search Marketing Plan: Goals, Budget, Timeline, Measurement and 90-Day Execution by tying it to the exact workflow, audience or commercial constraint described on this page. Compare predeclared, threshold, pauses, activity, policy and operational under the same scope and review window; if one is unknown, keep that uncertainty explicit rather than filling the gap with an estimate. Set a written pass condition and a rollback condition before acting, so the team can reverse the change without rewriting the history of the test. Use FroggyAds to test the media assumption that follows from this section, not to replace the evidence the section requires. Campaign controls support the decision; they do not manufacture proof.
Scenario in a Search Marketing plan
A coherent set of conditions used to test how the plan should respond to uncertainty. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Contingency in a Search Marketing plan
A prepared action used when a defined risk or scenario occurs. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Decision gate in a Search Marketing plan
A point where evidence determines whether work continues, changes or stops. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Reconciliation in a Search Marketing plan
The comparison of platform reporting with CRM, order, product or finance records. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Incrementality in a Search Marketing plan
The additional outcome caused by an activity compared with what would otherwise have happened. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Owner in a Search Marketing plan
The person accountable for a deliverable, decision or control. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
RACI in a Search Marketing plan
A responsibility model covering responsible, accountable, consulted and informed roles. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.
Plan refresh in a Search Marketing plan
A dated review that updates assumptions, evidence, priorities and resource allocation. Record the term’s operational meaning for Search Marketing, the owner and the source of truth.