Re: promoting

Ann Everett wrote:

Two things: First, the main point of shortening that long URL, is that it will prevent reviews from being removed on Amazon. All that extra stuff has info in it that tells Amazon YOU furnished that link...therefore, giving them a clue you have a personal connection to the reviewer...if they use that link to find your book to review it. So, the URL should always stop following the ASIN number. Not saying don't use Bitly or whatever...but if you don't, I think Twitter shortens it for you. Just don't use the long URL for anything!

Ann makes an excellent point about the URL telling Amazon what it doesn't need to know. I find the shortened URL more convenient - I can remember it! Rather than copy and pasting the long Amazon one. And it gives me feedback on the number of clicks I get when I post on Twitter or Facebook.

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Re: promoting

Charles_F_Bell wrote:
Nicholas Andrews wrote:

BookBub .

Has any author or publisher done even an anecdotal cost-v-benefit in paying for a site that could just be a scam of a sort?

Yes. BookBub is well-known for being the best return on investment for a self-publisher for the past few years. No one else really comes close. There's tons of anecdotal testimony from authors who made back their money on the day the ad ran and profited in the following days and weeks from sales of their other books.

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Re: promoting

Nicholas Andrews wrote:
Charles_F_Bell wrote:
Nicholas Andrews wrote:

BookBub .

Has any author or publisher done even an anecdotal cost-v-benefit in paying for a site that could just be a scam of a sort?

Yes. BookBub is well-known for being the best return on investment for a self-publisher for the past few years. No one else really comes close. There's tons of anecdotal testimony from authors who made back their money on the day the ad ran and profited in the following days and weeks from sales of their other books.

Thank you. That is good to know. Now, if they'd only have a friendlier greeting than Give Us Your Email Address...

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Re: promoting

Thanks for all the useful book-promo stitching in this thread! I'm reweaving my yarns and hope to eventually blanket social media so readers warm up and get cozy in the dreams and screams of my toss and turn fiction.

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