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Mythbusting, AOM Style

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Mythbusting, AOM Style

Associate-O-Matic is the most popular Amazon affiliate script out there; there’s no doubt about that. True, there is competition, and that’s fine; a little elbowing can make for a better product. But in an effort to make some of the also-rans look better, claims are made that may not be accurate. Many times a competitor’s [...]

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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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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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Adding the Final Polish

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Adding the Final Polish

Recently there was a post in the forum with the questions below. I thought I’d expand a bit on the answers and include them here for the benefit of anyone who might have missed it the first time around. These are all questions that have to do with adding the last little bit to a [...]

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Mod_rewrite: A Users Guide

Friday, December 12, 2008

Mod_rewrite: A Users Guide

Setting your AOM site up for mod_rewrite can be a crucial step towards making your site both more user-friendly, and search engine-friendly. But to many people, especially those without much experience, it can seem like a daunting task. We’re going to break the steps down, and make this important area look like the easy setup [...]

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