Comments on: Trying out the new Amazon Recommendations widget http://andrewchenblog.com/2008/07/02/trying-out-the-new-amazon-recommendations-widget/ Essays on viral marketing, freemium, and social gaming Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:01:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ian McAllister http://andrewchenblog.com/2008/07/02/trying-out-the-new-amazon-recommendations-widget/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Ian McAllister Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:17:11 +0000 http://andrewchenblog.com/2008/07/02/trying-out-the-new-amazon-recommendations-widget/#comment-62 <p>You've got a lot of duplication in your title tags so unfortunately the recommended pages don't show much of the actual post title. May or may not help you from a SEO perspective but I'll make a suggestion to the team who built the Rec Pages widget that they allow users to filter out certain text from anchor text.</p> <p>I actually got a really great rec for a book I hadn't heard of before, "Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action". I went ahead and bought it.</p> You’ve got a lot of duplication in your title tags so unfortunately the recommended pages don’t show much of the actual post title. May or may not help you from a SEO perspective but I’ll make a suggestion to the team who built the Rec Pages widget that they allow users to filter out certain text from anchor text.

I actually got a really great rec for a book I hadn’t heard of before, “Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action”. I went ahead and bought it.

]]> By: Joe Ludwig http://andrewchenblog.com/2008/07/02/trying-out-the-new-amazon-recommendations-widget/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Joe Ludwig Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:53:23 +0000 http://andrewchenblog.com/2008/07/02/trying-out-the-new-amazon-recommendations-widget/#comment-61 <p>I think it's funny that the widget is recommending something I've already purchased from Amazon. How many USB GPS dongles does it think I need, anyway?</p> I think it’s funny that the widget is recommending something I’ve already purchased from Amazon. How many USB GPS dongles does it think I need, anyway?

]]> By: yeah http://andrewchenblog.com/2008/07/02/trying-out-the-new-amazon-recommendations-widget/comment-page-1/#comment-60 yeah Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:37:28 +0000 http://andrewchenblog.com/2008/07/02/trying-out-the-new-amazon-recommendations-widget/#comment-60 <p>I dont know. That "andrew ringtone" ad is pretty tempting.</p> I dont know. That “andrew ringtone” ad is pretty tempting.

]]> By: ian http://andrewchenblog.com/2008/07/02/trying-out-the-new-amazon-recommendations-widget/comment-page-1/#comment-59 ian Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:32:47 +0000 http://andrewchenblog.com/2008/07/02/trying-out-the-new-amazon-recommendations-widget/#comment-59 <p>You may also find a bit more monetisation as my adblock doesn't get rid of the Amazon widget, but I never even see a Google ad.</p> <p>1 year = $100 (with > 200 visits per day) = google ads... so about $0.001 per visitor ;) how could you ever beat that sweet figure huh??</p> You may also find a bit more monetisation as my adblock doesn’t get rid of the Amazon widget, but I never even see a Google ad.

1 year = $100 (with > 200 visits per day) = google ads… so about $0.001 per visitor ;) how could you ever beat that sweet figure huh??

]]> By: Devin Reams http://andrewchenblog.com/2008/07/02/trying-out-the-new-amazon-recommendations-widget/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Devin Reams Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:15:38 +0000 http://andrewchenblog.com/2008/07/02/trying-out-the-new-amazon-recommendations-widget/#comment-58 <p>Neat recommendations. Kinda scary. Kinda scary effective.</p> <p>You've gotta love the companies that know more about me than me.</p> Neat recommendations. Kinda scary. Kinda scary effective.

You’ve gotta love the companies that know more about me than me.

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