Friday, August 24, 2007

Amazon "Movers & Shakers" Feeds

When I started this Blog, I intended to use it primarily to share some of my discoveries about Google's page-crawling and ranking systems, and perhaps improve the traffic to some of my obscure, dusty websites. Well, it seems that Google changes their algorithms so fast that anything I might deduce about their inner workings is obsolete the minute it's published.

Presently, I am working with Amazon Web Services to create what I feel is extremely useful content, although Google seems generally to disagree. For the foreseeable future I will be posting links to some of my favorite feeds here, with breif explanations.

Most of my feeds are based on Amazon Web Services, which apparently leads Google to deem them "thin affiliate" links. Some of the better ones are "screen scraped" because they are base on Amazon features that aren't available via AWS (at least not presently. Let's begin with those:

These "Movers & Shakers" feeds are a daily digest of the products in 29 categories that have shown the greatest percentage increase in sales over the last 24 hours. They are great for spotting trends and keep in content fresh. Google seems to be ignoring them completely.

  1. "Movers & Shakers" in Apparel @ Amazon.com
  2. "Movers & Shakers" in Automotive @ Amazon.com
  3. "Movers & Shakers" in Baby Products @ Amazon.com
  4. "Movers & Shakers" in Beauty @ Amazon.com
  5. "Movers & Shakers" in Books @ Amazon.com
  6. "Movers & Shakers" in Cameras & Photography @ Amazon.com
  7. "Movers & Shakers" in Cell Phones & Service @ Amazon.com
  8. "Movers & Shakers" in Computer & Video Games @ Amazon.com
  9. "Movers & Shakers" in Computers & PC Hardware @ Amazon.com
  10. "Movers & Shakers" in DVD @ Amazon.com
  11. "Movers & Shakers" in Electronics @ Amazon.com
  12. "Movers & Shakers" in Gourmet Foods @ Amazon.com
  13. "Movers & Shakers" in Grocery @ Amazon.com
  14. "Movers & Shakers" in Health & Personal Care @ Amazon.com
  15. "Movers & Shakers" in Home & Garden @ Amazon.com
  16. "Movers & Shakers" in Industrial & Scientific @ Amazon.com
  17. "Movers & Shakers" in Jewelry & Watches @ Amazon.com
  18. "Movers & Shakers" in Kitchen & Housewares @ Amazon.com
  19. "Movers & Shakers" in Magazines @ Amazon.com
  20. "Movers & Shakers" in Music @ Amazon.com
  21. "Movers & Shakers" in Musical Instruments @ Amazon.com
  22. "Movers & Shakers" in Office Products @ Amazon.com
  23. "Movers & Shakers" in Outdoor Living @ Amazon.com
  24. "Movers & Shakers" in Software @ Amazon.com
  25. "Movers & Shakers" in Sporting Goods @ Amazon.com
  26. "Movers & Shakers" in Tools & Hardware @ Amazon.com
  27. "Movers & Shakers" in Toys & Games @ Amazon.com
  28. "Movers & Shakers" in Unbox Video Downloads @ Amazon.com
  29. "Movers & Shakers" in VHS Video Cassettes @ Amazon.com

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