Hi Lauren – thanks for the comment, you’re absolutely right. I’d forgotten that Author Central tracks daily sales rank as I (like many authors, I suspect) rarely log in to AC and it’s hidden behind a few steps. But now that you’ve refreshed my memory, I’ve updated the blog with the steps to find it.

And I also agree that we weren’t clear in the point that it is the borrow itself from KU that affects rank, not the actual page reads, so I’ve clarified that as well. Thanks again!

No, I don’t believe there to be any truth to that, nor have I seen any credible evidence by anyone proving that. I would guess it is simply a rumor.

Log into Author Central. Under the Sales Info tab, click on Sales Rank. That will pull up a list of your books and their current rank. If you click on the small graph image next to the book cover, the graph with your ranking history comes up. It defaults to a one month history, but you can change it to different timeframes.

Also, just to clarify – Kindle Unlimited page reads do NOT count towards your rank. When the book is BORROWED in KU, that borrow is counted as being equivalent to a paid sale for ranking purposes, whether the person reads the book or not. You get paid for pages read, but they don’t do anything for your sales rank.

I have a question about this suggestion in the post:

“each day, go to your book and log your ABSR rank.”

I have read — I don’t know if it is true — that each time a book’s page is accessed without resulting in a sale, Amazon algorithms downgrade the book’s discoverability.

If this is true, then checking the sales ranking of a book every day could hurt its sales.

Do you have any information or insight about this?