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    Amazon in Trouble Cause of Counterfeiting

    Ever since the Amazon Washington Post started attacking Trump - you knew at some point the boss was going to hit back. Here comes trouble! President Trump just issued landmark anti-counterfeiting regulations. The new customs framework addresses the problem of counterfeit goods. It will put...
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    Visa Buys Plaid for $5.3 Billion

    Plaid is a platform that allow customers to connect their bank accounts to a variety of services for direct withdrawals removing the need for the two separate micro-transactions to confirm this is your account (Stripe uses plaid to integrate bank account transfers). Plaid, co-founded by Zach...
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    Google Killing 3rd Party Cookies by 2022 (Apple and Mozilla FireFox Already did)

    Things are about to get interesting in the affiliate world: Google says an initial dialogue with the web community has left it confident that a healthy, ad-supported internet is possible without the use of third-party cookies. Google suggests instead that its open source Privacy Sandbox...
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    Google buys Pointy.com (Easy Inventory To Web Integration)

    I never knew this existed but this solves A HUGE problem with small businesses. Most small business have literally no clue how to get their inventory online. The biggest challenge is sourcing information for each item, images, and pricing. Pointy solves all of that by attaching to the bar...
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    Google limiting Stars and Self-Serving reviews

    Going forward Google is limiting the stars on reviews (ya'll were playing too many games), example of a feature snippet with stars: Specifically, we'll only display reviews with those types (and their respective subtypes): schema.org/Book schema.org/Course...
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    Google Partners With WordPress to Push AMP

    Mobile-First Indexing is taking a whole new level. Google is determined to push AMP down our throats by partnering up with Wordpress now. Currently AMP only accounts for 0.1% of the internet, whereas Wordpress accounts for 59% of CMS market share equating to 20% of ALL websites on the internet...
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    Archive.org Disregarding Robots.txt Block

    When I first read this I was baffled and thought it was a mistake, but apparently it is for real, Archive.org is no longer respecting the robots file and in the comments section a "Mark Graham" states the following: "Please know that site owners can always write to info@archive.org and request...
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    Google Chrome to Block Bad Ads - Sound, Interstitials, and Spammy-Like

    Welcome to your future... At some point enough was going to be enough. Ads ontop of ADs ontop of ADs. ADs that crash websites, Whole pages filled with ADs and little content - the end result could only be that users would get frustrated and now Ad blocker extensions rise by 30% just in the last...
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    Facebook Removing Spammy AD-filled Sites From News Feed

    Facebook will bury links to low-quality websites and refuse to carry ads pointing to them in a News Feed algorithm change announced today. Facebook defines a “low-quality site” as one “containing little substantive content, and that is covered in disruptive, shocking or malicious ads.” This...
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    YouTube Now Requires 10K views to Display Ads

    Another angle Youtube is now going down, potentially due to the Youtube AD boycott, is now whitelisting youtube channels and not promoting ADs until that youtube channel has hit 10K views: Starting today, we will no longer serve ads on YPP videos until the channel reaches 10k lifetime views...
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    Google/Youtube's AD Boycott Grows as Companies Suspend Campaigns

    JP Morgan Chase Reduces It's Reach on Display Networks - From 400,000 to just 5,000 websites When big advertisers like Chase start exiting Display Networks (Adsense) and others, it means an overall reduction in CPC costs leading to lower and lower revenue for folks running Adsense or the...
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    Google/Youtube's AD Boycott Grows as Companies Suspend Campaigns

    YouTube Stars Have Started Losing Money It's starting, youtube stars are taking a hit cause of the Advertiser exodus. As YouTube Tinkers With Ad Formula, Its Stars See Their Videos Lose Money The video site is not messing around with its ad-block button as it scrubs itself clean for...
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    Google/Youtube's AD Boycott Grows as Companies Suspend Campaigns

    Here comes censorship for anyone running Google Adsense. The golden age of the internet is truly coming to an end. Verizon, AT&T, Johnson & Johnson and over 250 brands have reportedly suspended their ad campaigns with Google aside from search. A growing number of brands have suspended their...
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    Walmart's Store No. 8 Start Up Incubator

    Goliath takes on Goliath. Amazon has been eroding retail giants for a long time (and destroying Malls in the process), now Walmart is stepping up it's efforts to not be a victim and use young entrepreneurs and emerging technologies to help compete by launching a start up incubator called Store...
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    Wet Seal's Mega Mindfuck Campaign

    Wet Seal follow up: The closing of Wet Seal’s 171 stores would come just two years after the Irvine, Calif.-based chain closed two-thirds of its locations and laid off almost 3,700 workers, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Its goals then were to retrench, focusing on its best...
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    Google Home Spam - Audio Ads For Beauty and the Beast

    The Internet of Things' spam is here... Today some Google Home owners reported hearing something extra when they asked for a summary of the day ahead from the smart speaker: an advertisement for the opening of Beauty and the Beast. Several users on Reddit have noticed the audio ad and Bryson...
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    Changes Coming To Amazon Affiliate Commission Rates

    From the page provided by @andreint :
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    Google Video: How to Hire An SEO

    Google just published a new video teaching businesses how to hire an SEO. If you provide SEO services to clients it's worth taking a look at in case you run into a potential client that's come across this video: Good luck bros.
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    Changes Coming To Amazon Affiliate Commission Rates

    This might affect some members here - "Allegedly" Amazon is moving away from volume based commissions: I had a call with an affiliate rep from Amazon, and since I wasn't asked to keep it a secret, I thought I'd relay what I was told. Starting March 1, Amazon is moving away from a volume based...
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    WordPress Rest API Vulnerability Found

    It didn't take long for the WordPress Rest API to be exploited like discussed previously (Wordpress Now Adding REST API and oEmbed Lines in the Header): While working on WordPress, we discovered was a severe content injection (privilege escalation) vulnerability affecting the REST API. This...
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