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The Myth of Indexing

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

A question I hear a lot from new AOM users is “Why isn’t my site indexed yet?”. People with little or no Internet-savvy may have some preconceived ideas about affiliate marketing in general, and AOM in particular. This month I would like to discuss some of the general realities of indexing, hopefully to separate fact [...]

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SEO – Bing and Yahoo Tips

Thursday, January 20, 2011

SEO - Bing and Yahoo Tips

This month we have a guest column written by AOM site owner Joe Quarta. His site ExerciseLine.com is a well thought-out store that consistently performs well. Joe is also quite knowledgeable regarding AOM and is frequently found in the AOM forum, helping new users, critiquing sites and offering insight into search engines and how they [...]

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Content for Contention

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

In any field, some themes occur over and over again. Mainly because they illustrate certain truths that bear repeating. In the AOM world (and affiliate marketing in general), one of these themes that you hear like a mantra is content is king. If you frequent any website where SEO strategy is debated, it may appear [...]

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Sitemaps, the DCP and G00gle

Monday, September 15, 2008

There was a post in the AOM forum recently about sitemaps and the dreaded duplicate content penalty. It made me stop and think that there are several conflicting schools of thought regarding these areas, and I’ve touched on my perspective a few times in the forum. Perhaps I should expand somewhat on my viewpoint here. [...]

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Traffic Report

Thursday, July 10, 2008

A recent poll on this site indicated that one of the biggest problems for Associate-O-Matic users is getting traffic to their sites. And of course, what’s the point of slaving away, getting your store just right, when nobody bothers to come see it? How’s a guy supposed to make a few bucks with no customers? [...]

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