# AI Side Hustles and Passive Income: Vocabulary Hub: [[Topics/AI Side Hustles and Passive Income/AI Side Hustles and Passive Income|AI Side Hustles and Passive Income]] - **Affiliate marketing:** earning a commission when a visitor clicks your tracked link and buys. Amazon calls it "Standard Commission Income" on "Qualifying Purchases" ([Amazon](https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/GRXPHT8U84RAYDXZ)). - **AI Overview / AI summary:** Google's generated answer at the top of results. Pew found it is linked to fewer clicks on results ([Pew](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-when-an-ai-summary-appears-in-the-results/)). - **Directory site:** a site listing businesses, tools or resources in one niche, usually one page per item or per location. - **Doorway abuse:** Google's term for pages made to rank for similar queries that funnel users to less useful pages ([Google](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies)). - **Internet real estate / digital real estate:** marketing slang for owning websites or domains that earn ad or affiliate income, likened to rental property. - **Long-tail keyword:** a narrow, low-volume search phrase. Easier to rank for, with less traffic. - **Material connection:** the FTC's term for a relationship (payment, free products, affiliate commissions) that must be disclosed in an endorsement ([FTC](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/disclosures-101-social-media-influencers)). - **Programmatic SEO:** generating many template pages (often by database or AI) to target many long-tail searches at once. - **RPM:** revenue per thousand pageviews, the usual yardstick for content-site income. - **Scaled content abuse:** Google's spam category for "many pages… generated for the primary purpose of manipulating search rankings and not helping users… no matter how it's created" ([Google](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies)). - **Thin affiliation:** Google's term for affiliate pages that copy merchant content without adding value ([Google](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies)).