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message 1: by Lenore (new)

May 03, 2011 06:01PM

Does anyone know anything about tagging each others books to help build popularity for each other at Amazon?

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message 2: by Elizabeth (last edited May 23, 2011 06:00PM) (new)

May 03, 2011 06:03PM

Elizabeth Isaacs (eisaacs) | 33 comments

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message 3: by Dennis (new)

May 03, 2011 06:10PM

Dennis Sharpe (witlesslackey) | 19 comments

That sounds like an awesome idea!

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message 4: by Elizabeth (last edited May 23, 2011 07:37PM) (new)

May 03, 2011 06:34PM

Picked it up here.
http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Possessio...
http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Possessio...

http://www.amazon.com/Grave-Robbers-S...
http://www.amazon.com/RAVEN-FINCH-Cur...
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Attic-eb...
http://www.amazon.com/Apothecary-Secr...

http://www.amazon.com/Together-Again-...
http://www.amazon.com/Together-Again-...

http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Mist-Mar...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silver-Mist-T...

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message 5: by Dennis (new)

May 03, 2011 06:52PM

Okay, just to be clear... we're hitting the like button and the tags, right? That's what I've done.

Here's the links to mine:

paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Spirits-C...

kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Spirits-C...

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message 6: by Elizabeth (new)

May 03, 2011 06:57PM

Boom shakalaka! That's it! :-D

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message 7: by Brian (new)

May 03, 2011 07:03PM

I'm in.

Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/A-Chemical-Fire...

Paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Fire-n...

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message 8: by Lenore (new)

May 03, 2011 07:24PM

Wonderful! Thank you:) BTW, I've read that clicking on the book helps too. Amazon apparently keeps track of clicks and judges popularity by it:)
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Warrior-Da...

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message 9: by Lenore (new)

May 03, 2011 07:38PM

You've all been tagged and clicked. I'm becoming all your fans as well. I read that helps to drive you to the top, here, on Goodreads:)

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message 10: by Lenore (new)

May 03, 2011 07:44PM

I went looking for that Like button, and I discovered the Share button, so I have shared your books in Twitter.

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message 11: by Lenore (new)

May 03, 2011 07:51PM

But I did find the like button on your Goodreads profiles! also, if you all have Like buttons on your webpages, I would be happy to click those as well:)

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message 12: by Jennifer (new)

May 04, 2011 04:48AM

Jennifer Provost (parthalan) | 10 comments

This thread is a great idea! I've tagged and "liked" everyone above me. Here are my Amazon titles:

http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Devashi-Ch...

http://www.amazon.com/Hunters-Tales-D...

Thanks everyone. Can't wait to tag more - it's a great way we can help each other out.

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message 13: by Elizabeth (last edited May 04, 2011 05:00AM) (new)

May 04, 2011 05:00AM

Also, if you like "like on the top reviews it helps as well...should have mentioned that before ;-)

I've gotten everyone so far!

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message 14: by Sammie (new)

May 04, 2011 05:13AM

Sammie Spencer (SammieSpencer) | 5 comments

Woohoo - I've tagged and liked everyone! Here's mine:

http://www.amazon.com/Amaretto-Flame-...

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message 15: by Jennifer (new)

May 04, 2011 05:15AM

Tagged you, Sammie. I love your cover!

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message 16: by Sammie (new)

May 04, 2011 06:17AM

Thanks Jennifer!!

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message 17: by Elizabeth (new)

May 04, 2011 07:18AM

Got it! :-D

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message 18: by Elizabeth (new)

May 04, 2011 01:48PM

One other thing: I've been re-reading information, and if someone "Likes" the reviews your book has gotten, it goes up the ladder that way as well. So here's what we need to do:
Tag the Like button on the top
Tag the first page or top 5 reviews (or as many as you want, but at least 5) as helpful or like
Tag all of the tags and the trailers (if applicable).

I know it seems like a lot of clicking, but really, once you get the hang of it, tagging it all only takes a few seconds and we'll be really helping each other out!

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message 19: by Jennifer (new)

May 04, 2011 03:09PM

Tagged JO

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message 20: by Elizabeth (new)

May 04, 2011 05:26PM

Whose Jo? :-D

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message 21: by Louis (new)

May 04, 2011 05:41PM

Okay.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0048EJZR8

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0048EJZR8

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message 22: by Sarah (new)

May 05, 2011 10:26AM

Here's my book, All This and Family, Too. It's a vampire comedy. :) I've begun tagging the people above me...

Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/All-This-Family...

Amazon (Kindle): http://www.amazon.com/All-This-Family...

Many thanks for all help!

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message 23: by Elizabeth (new)

May 05, 2011 11:26AM

Sarah,
You don't have any tags on your kindle book...thought you should know.

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message 24: by Duane (last edited May 05, 2011 03:02PM) (new)

May 05, 2011 02:54PM

I'm in, and tagging the books above mine. Yes, it helps to click the Like button near the top of the book's Amazon page, and to give a "Yes, helpful" vote to one of the positive reader reviews. Thanks for the thread, Lenore!

Please click a few of the tag boxes to agree with some of the tags that are already there.

http://www.amazon.com/Acorn-Gathering...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acorn-Gatheri...
http://www.amazon.com/Acorn-Stories-S...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acorn-Stories...

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message 25: by Jennifer (new)

May 05, 2011 04:24PM

I've tagged everyone, with the exception of Duane's UK links - for some reason they won't "take". I'll try again later.

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message 26: by Robert (new)

May 05, 2011 04:24PM

Oh, I totally want to play too. I love all this "plotting to take over the world" stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/WILLY-Robert-Du...

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message 27: by Doug (last edited May 05, 2011 04:53PM) (new)

May 05, 2011 04:43PM

Ok, I'm caught up to here. I didn't get the Amazon.uk stuff but I think I hit everything for Amazon.com. I'll try to figure out the .uk thing later.

Here's mine:
http://www.amazon.com/SAT-BAF-Memorie...
http://www.amazon.com/SAT-BAF-Memorie...

If you could click like on the review by J. Anderson, I'd really appreciate it. It got buried under some of the earlier reviews, and I'd like it to move up. The one by Feathered Quill should be on the front, too. If you click two, make it those two. They're my best two reviews, I think. Otherwise, give me the works!

Thanks!

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message 28: by Doug (new)

May 05, 2011 04:52PM

I've also become a fan of everybody in the thread.

Something else I've been told is that Goodreads monitors how many times your book is displayed. That's from one of the groups I'm in on here. Here's how they want all of the books mentioned anytime we mention a book:

SAT & BAF! Memories of a Tower Rat
by

Doug DePew

If you notice, that's four times I was mentioned. Everybody should display their book while we're promoting ourselves, anyway! Then we can click on each other's books on Goodreads while we're at it. They monitor that.
:-)

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message 29: by Elizabeth (new)

May 05, 2011 06:47PM

Alrighty then,
Here's what Asteria looks like. BTW, if you switch companies/covers, your first cover is the default on your front page until the other cover gets more reviews :-/
No idea how much that would effect the marketing end of things. So the lesson of the day is to make sure you own the rights to your cover and stick with it :-D

Elizabeth Isaacs

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message 30: by Darlene (new)

May 05, 2011 10:12PM

Darlene Foster (darlenefoster) | 28 comments

Great idea! I've clicked like on everyone here, plus the reviews and covers. Here are mine

http://www.amazon.com/Amanda-Arabia-P...

http://www.amazon.com/Amanda-Spain-Gi...

Thanks!

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message 31: by Elizabeth (new)

May 06, 2011 02:57AM

I didn't know you could tag more than once! Thanks so much for the info!

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message 32: by Indie (new)

May 06, 2011 10:38AM

Indie Books (indiebookibc) | 29 comments

Mod

Thanks for posting this discussion! I've tagged everyone here. Be sure to check out our bookshelves and tag those wonderful writers too! We are all here to spread the love!

Karen

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message 33: by Sarah (new)

May 06, 2011 10:49AM

Thank you for alerting me to the lack of tags on my Kindle entry... I've added a bunch.

I've also tagged more people above me!

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message 34: by Dennis (new)

May 06, 2011 12:50PM

Tagged your kindle Sarah.

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message 35: by Duane (new)

May 06, 2011 02:44PM

Thanks, Jennifer! Tags for particular book seem to disappear sometimes, but they come back intact.
Duane
http://www.amazon.com/Acorn-Gathering...

Jennifer wrote: "I've tagged everyone, with the exception of Duane's UK links - for some reason they won't "take". I'll try again later."

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message 36: by Doug (last edited May 06, 2011 06:57PM) (new)

May 06, 2011 06:56PM

Ok, I think I'm caught up. If somebody clicked the J. Anderson review, thanks!! I'm not sure if it was somebody from here or somebody really liked it.
:-)

Doug DePew

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message 37: by Dennis (new)

May 06, 2011 08:59PM

I clicked the review as requested. :)

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message 38: by Darlene (new)

May 06, 2011 09:59PM

Thank you to everyone who tagged and liked etc my books on Amazon. What a wonderful support group writers are!
http://www.amazon.com/Amanda-Arabia-P...
http://www.amazon.com/Amanda-Spain-Gi...

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message 39: by Marcia (new)

May 07, 2011 06:43AM

Marcia Colette (marcia_colette) | 6 comments

Whew! I got through the list and tagged and clicked on everyone so far...and found some really cool stuff along the way. ;-)

Here are my tags:
Ebook: http://www.amazon.com/Bittersweet-ebo...

Print: http://www.amazon.com/Bittersweet-Mar...

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message 40: by Doug (new)

May 07, 2011 06:48AM

Dennis wrote: "I clicked the review as requested. :)"

Thanks, Dennis!

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message 41: by Dorlana (new)

May 07, 2011 06:42PM

Hi!
Okay, I just got finished going through the list and tagged and liked everything. Thanks for setting this up.
Here are mine:
http://www.amazon.com/Jaclyns-Ghost-e...

http://www.amazon.com/Silverweed-supe...

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message 42: by Chris (last edited May 08, 2011 02:54AM) (new)

May 08, 2011 02:54AM

Chris Strange (chrisstrange) | 7 comments

Tagged and liked everyone :)
Here's my book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Converted...

C.R. Hindmarsh

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message 43: by Joyce (new)

May 08, 2011 01:17PM

Here's my book, "Unheard Cries". I've begun tagging and liked everyone. Thanks for the advice.
here are my links;
EBOOK
http://www.amazon.com/Unheard-Cries-e...

SOFTCOVER
http://www.amazon.com/Unheard-Cries-1...

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message 44: by Joyce (new)

May 08, 2011 01:45PM

I've went through and "liked" everyone above with the exception of CR Hindmarsh's links - they just won't take! Tried several times.

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message 45: by Elizabeth (new)

May 08, 2011 03:03PM

Hey Joyce,
I just liked you book, but I couldn't tag it because there were no tags there. Did you create some tags and I just didn't find them?

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message 46: by Patricia (new)

May 08, 2011 03:24PM

Patricia Williams (triciatypes) | 4 comments

I'm game!
Below is my e-book, Wasteland:
http://www.amazon.com/Wasteland-The-K...

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message 47: by Patricia (new)

May 08, 2011 04:25PM

Just got finished tagging and liking everyone! Thanks for posting, Lenore! :)

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message 48: by Joyce (new)

May 08, 2011 05:51PM

Thanks....I'll check it out. Just finished LIKING three more.

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message 49: by Chris (new)

May 08, 2011 08:18PM

Sorry my links didn't work for you Joyce. Maybe these ones will work better:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Converted-e...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Converted...

Joyce: I noticed you don't have any tags yet for us to vote up. If you leave a list of tags you want here, separated by commas, I'm sure me or someone else would be happy to start tagging.

It's easiest if you do it in the format:
family, marriage, indie author, ... etc so we can just copy and paste.

Cheers :)

C.R. Hindmarsh

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message 50: by Sarah (new)

May 09, 2011 10:48AM

I added several tags to your softcover, Joyce. I didn't see any.

I've also been tagging the people above this post. If you haven't tagged my book yet...

Print:
http://www.amazon.com/All-This-Family...

Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/All-This-Family...

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