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    Facebook Removing Automotive Targeting??

    Actually, they are removing nearly all behavioral data from the Audience UI. This was a shock to me, as well as many others, that it's not just the auto industry getting hit by this change. Nearly every other category is being removed as well. Here's just a random sampling of other categories I...
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    How do you know if your website is up and running??

    I've been using a tool called Uptime Robot for about a year now. There is a free tier that pings your website(s) every 5 minutes, or there are paid plans for more intense uptime monitoring. Even on the free plan, you can add up to 50 URLs for it to ping. It sends me email alerts, so I know...
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    CarFetch

    Yep, we don't do national (or international, in the case of Canada) advertising, as we have other approaches to getting shoppers. As far as your specific search, I'll PM you, so I don't derail this thread.
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    CarFetch

    You hit the nail on the head, Craig! We have done those exact same things, except utilizing the Microsoft Azure cloud, rather than AWS. But it's all in the same ballpark. The key is to start with the cloud to gain all the benefits of cloud computing: access to nearly unlimited power and storage...
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    OEM Site...Fight or Submit?

    I wanted to add to the discussion here of having multiple websites. To jump right to the point: In nearly every case, having multiple websites is harmful, not helpful. With every additional website, you increase your cost, time and effort to keep the sites updated, and amount of duplicate...
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    Apple selling cars...direct to consumers?

    Am I the only one a bit confused by the poll at the top of this topic? :)
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    The Top Vehicle Listings Websites - Who's NEXT?

    That's a great idea, we'll put that onto our improvement list. Thanks for the feedback! Just to give you a little more insight into MotoMiner, vehicle changes are detected every two days. If MotoMiner detects new vehicles, they are indexed immediately. For existing vehicles, they are...
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    The Top Vehicle Listings Websites - Who's NEXT?

    Great to hear, Chris, thank you! What exactly do you have in mind when you mention an API? Do you mean something like a Google Search API that would allow searching MotoMiner's database on your own website?
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    The Top Vehicle Listings Websites - Who's NEXT?

    We linked to the "Are you Feeling a Disturbance in the Force?" blog post on our website because we think it's so true. We happened upon the article when we were in development of our service, and it happened to really solidify what we were perceiving in the online automotive classified space. So...