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Curation and Personalization: How (Not) to Compete with Amazon

Convert

Back in May, with the world reeling from the first wave of the pandemic, Amazon quietly leaked an extremely important piece of information: they had changed the date of Christmas. billion in profit for Amazon, was that the holiday season started early. Amazon and Total World Dominance. Amazon and Total World Dominance.

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ELI5: brand combination searches

Kevin Indig

You search for “amazon”; Google shows you results from amazon.com. The same principle also works for brand combination searches, like “amazon bar soap” It’s a combination of a brand and a generic keyword. You’re surely aware of brand searches. Its organic traffic has exploded.

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Should you block GPTbot?

Kevin Indig

790 of the top 1,000 sites have a business model that’s not incentivized to give generative AI their data. Since then, I found more sites, like Amazon, blocking Chat GPT in their robots.txt. Giving it away for free to generative AI means foregoing most if not all, ad revenue. 84% of sites are likely to block ChatGPT.

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What makes content valuable in an AI world?

Kevin Indig

OR: JetOctopus JS Tools - the most advanced JS crawler for pro users. What does the AI answer provide that users can’t get on a website? This is a common misconception about LLMs and generative AI. As a result, the user experience suffers. The page might look fine but the problem can exist!

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How to Use Schema Markup to Improve Your Website's Structure

Hubspot

Schema markup is code you can add to your website that helps search engines return better results for users. According to Wikipedia , “microdata is an HTML specification used to nest metadata within existing content on web pages. However, the one from Amazon includes ratings and reviews. What Is Schema Markup?

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9 brands prove vulnerability is good for business

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. AMAZON : Remotely deleted George Orwell’s “1984″ from Kindle devices. Jeff Bezos posted an apology admitting the act was “stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with [Amazon''s] principles.” It functioned poorly and misdirected users. See for yourself.

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How to Start an Online Course pt.1 – Research and Tools

Method and Metric

Online courses are a terrific way to generate passive income. This free keyword research tool offers autocomplete results from Google, Yahoo, Bing, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Amazon. The classic, go-to for screen and video capturing for Mac users is Quicktime. Everyone’s an expert in something. What’s your thing? (

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