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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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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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Index.php vs. Shop.php

Thursday, March 12, 2009

I admit to being confused about the actions of many AOM users regarding the shop.php file. Specifically the need to rename it, usually to index.php. I understand why some people may choose to rename the file in this way; a directory is generally designed to display an index file during a call. So if you [...]

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