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V5.1 And The API

Thursday, August 11, 2011

V5.1 And The API

As they have for the past few years, Amazon is making changes to the way their API data feed operates. And as with previous changes, some will have a huge impact on how AOM performs. Let’s take a look at what they’re planning, and how it will (or will not) affect your stores. Also we’ll [...]

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Build Your Own Bot Trap

Monday, November 8, 2010

Build Your Own Bot Trap

With Amazon now imposing usage restrictions on their API data feed, it becomes more important than ever to make sure you’re not wasting resources on unwanted visitors to your sites. By ‘unwanted’ of course, we are referring to search engine spiders who comb your site, indexing hundreds (if not thousands) of pages, and give you [...]

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Amazon: Change Is Good?

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Amazon: Change Is Good?

In July of this year Amazon announced changes to their data feed (the API). Since then, additional changes have been revealed, and overall there will be an impact for AOM. How much it affects you will depend on which features you use, and how much traffic your sites get. Since many people will have questions [...]

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The Secret Key of Amazon

Sunday, June 7, 2009

The Secret Key of Amazon

With the release of version 4.2.0 for Associate-O-Matic, we move into a new phase. One of the landmark changes in this upgrade is a head start on Amazon’s requirement for increased security and more accountability. In order to reduce the number of server calls and general abuse of the system (which make it run slower [...]

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