Authors: Wanna boost your book sales?

[sierra09]

I have to catch up on October's listings myself but usually try to wait until the end and just do one long go at it so I don't get confused.

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

I hadn't realized how many I had missed... I've caught up on the August and September posts in this thread. I'm up to 150 some products tagged now, I believe most of those are books from Kindleboards authors.

I've gotten most of my tags from KB'ers and this thread.  I did most of mine through "tag you're it" and have over 600 products tagged. 

I have to catch up on October's listings myself but usually try to wait until the end and just do one long go at it so I don't get confused.

That's a good idea.  I go to the end of the listing and work my way up. 

[JimC1946]

Elmore, I tagged your new book. It looks like an interesting read!

[Elmore Hammes]

Elmore, I tagged your new book. It looks like an interesting read!

Thanks Jim, I tagged you yesterday. I hope others also find it interesting.

Gertie, I will continue to try to catch up on those I've missed, but it may be awhile before I get to 600! I just need to remember to hit a few books a day as part of my regular forums/e-mail/online activity.

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

Thanks Jim, I tagged you yesterday. I hope others also find it interesting.

Gertie, I will continue to try to catch up on those I've missed, but it may be awhile before I get to 600! I just need to remember to hit a few books a day as part of my regular forums/e-mail/online activity.

It's a lot of tagging, Elmore.  It probably took me two months to go all the way back to August of last year, and I started in May.  There have been a lot of books added since then.

[Dave Dykema]

The tagging does go a lot faster if you don't read the descriptions! 

Of course a lot of them you get sucked into. Those are the interesting ones...

Depending how many there are, I can do a month's worth in about 15-20 minutes.

[JimC1946]

The tagging does go a lot faster if you don't read the descriptions! 

And therein lies the problem, although it's a good problem!

I've downloaded a lot of Kindle books from reading about them while tagging.

[sierra09]

The tagging does go a lot faster if you don't read the descriptions! 

Of course a lot of them you get sucked into. Those are the interesting ones...

I try not to read the descriptions so it goes faster but more times than not I get stopped reading descriptions and then groan when it's only available on Kindle. 

[Chris J]

Hey guys, I've tagged most of you now.....still have some catching up to do though.  But I have a question about these tags.  Do they really help sales.  The reason I ask is because they don't appear to raise a book's rank at Amazon when a search on the keywords are performed.  For example, my book pops up close to top when I click on the keywords from the books page, but if I do a search on the keywords from the search bar, my book shows up several pages back.  It looks like amazon displays the books by default, according to the number sold, instead of the number of tags.  Does anyone have any insight on that?

[MariaESchneider]

I don't know if anyone knows...tags seem to help more when your book is first out--with no or few sales (then there is not much to go on besides the tags.)  After that, I agree, sales ranking seems to make a difference---BUT if the search is ranked by price, then sales rank doesn't matter so much.

I think you need to have some tags and it helps to have a few people agree with you.  After that, can't say.