Amazon is hoping to make fake reviews on Amazon a bit harder by suing over 1000 people who were selling fake Amazon reviews via Fiverr. In April this year, Amazon sued multiple website owners who sold reviews via “buy Amazon reviews” type websites, successfully shutting most of them down. Now it is targeting sellers who […]
Amazon Mining Relationships Between Authors & Reviewers
For authors, building up a social media presence is key. You want your fans to know when you have a new book coming out or to provide updates on your projects. It is good marketing sense, especially for authors who self publish or who publish with smaller publishing houses that do not have much of […]
Amazon Improving Review Algorithm With Machine Learning
Amazon has one of the most robust review systems for products, and the reviews – especially for popular products – can be extremely valuable. So valuable that many people read Amazon product reviews even when they do not plan on purchasing the product through Amazon. However, for lesser known products, it can be a bit […]
Google Showing Specific Product Answer Box with Amazon Link for Generic Product Searches
We have seen Google display answer boxes for some highly competitive search terms before, but now they are showing specific products with a commercial link to buy the product, but for when searchers aren’t searching for that specific product, but when searching for a general product query instead. CognitiveSEO was the first to spot the […]
Amazon Sues Companies Selling Fake Product Reviews
Amazon is fighting back against companies that sell fake product reviews for products on their site. Amazon has sued Jay Gentile, who runs the website buyazonreviews.com. They are also going after the unknown owners of buyamazonreviews.com, bayreviews.net and buyreviewsnow.com, according to GeekWire. “While small in number, these reviews threaten to undermine the trust that customers, […]
Amazon Testing “Make an Offer” Feature; Internet Retailers Should Be Worried
If you are an Internet retailer, you need to be very concerned about a new sales tactic that Amazon is currently testing out. Instead of simply purchasing an item for a cost the retailer chooses, a potential customer can now essentially bid, or make an offer, for the product instead. While this is great for […]
Amazon Beats Google, Purchases .buy Top Level Domain for $4.6M
There were two interesting players in the fight over who would own the new .buy TLD when Amazon beat out Google to the purchase. Amazon won the bid for the .buy domain with a bid of $4.6M It is unknown what Amazon will be doing with this TLD. Will they use it strictly for their […]
Amazon Launching Their Own Online Advertising Program
In a move that is seen as a direct challenge to Google, Amazon is planning to launch their own online advertising program, which includes replacing all of Google’s ads from Amazon with their own in-house advertising. The new advertising program, simply called “Amazon Sponsored Links” at this time, is already reaching out to potential advertisers […]