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Privacy: 5 Amazon obscure settings you should change now

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The items we buy say a lot about our lifestyles, our finances, and our domestic lives. If you have an Amazon account, the amount of data that the retail giant collects is astonishing. Many people don’t know you get much more just free two-day shipping with a Prime account. With these different areas collecting data about you, if you are trying to maintain some semblance of your privacy, you’ll definitely want to check these five not-so-obvious settings. 1. Remove your Amazon public profile We don't often think of our "Amazon profile." However, that's precisely what it is. Your profile is created automatically, whether you want it or not, and it contains comments, ratings, public Wish Lists, biographical information, and other site interaction. This profile doesn't include your purchases or your browsing history, but it's very informative. If you want to control what activity is visible on your public profile, do the following: 1. Put your cursor o...

Online Business: Three Free Tools From Google In 2018

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With these three, free , tools you are upgrading your website technology and online marketing to easily receive important benefits: 1) producing robust organic listings in search engine results; 2) using the most advanced security; and 3) taking advantage of an easy marketing tool .... in the busiest search engine in your community and the world.  #1 Data Structure Information - Search Engine Tool Adding this tool provides explicit clues to search bots about how to classify and categorize the meaning of your page in the Google mother lode.  Google uses structured data that it finds on the web to understand the content of the page, as well as to gather information about your business services - features and benefits.  This is a top-shelf SEO (search engine optimization) tool . This is an introduction to this search engine tool: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data #2  Google My Business Profile - Marketing Tool Google has...

SEO: 3 Steps To Buying SEO

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What Is The #1 Goal of Any SEO Effort? We always hear about SEO will get us more website visitors, but what is the best measurable result of SEO dollars? The first goal os any SEO effort is creating sustainable organic listings on the first page of search results (FPSR). Today, in 2018, Google/Bing have made great strides to display local businesses on search results pages to improve local results. Those local results are produced at the whims of algorithms. Being an organic results on the first page of search results (FPSR), using proper SEO techniques, is a highly sought after achievement and considered a marketing success. For example, the Google Local Business maps and the Bing Local Business maps display local business results at top of FPSR. But, we know that those maps do not show all local businesses today, And, Google/Bing continues to make efforts to improve those local business results. On a national basis, when searching for a product or service, the websites th...

GMAIL USERS BEWARE Developers Read Your Email Reports An Investigation

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Your private emails are being read by third-party Gmail app developers, an investigation into data privacy has revealed. Developers behind a number of popular online services designed to work with Gmail trawl through private messages sent and received from your email address, it claims. It is common practice for some of these third-party app creators to instruct employees to read personal emails. One app, which is designed to help users manage their Gmail inbox, lets employees read 'thousands' of emails, the Wall Street Journal investigation found. According to experts, this 'dirty secret' is now common practice among some firms. The revelation comes just a few months after it was revealed political data firm Cambridge Analytica had siphoned private data from third-party apps on Facebook. According to the investigation into Gmail, the hugely-successful Google email client allows third-party developers to scan the inbox of anyone who installs their app. T...