Plus, even WITH AMS ads, the ROI is getting worse and worse.
One thing I noticed just yesterday is that the bid range for keywords in the AMS ads I run for clients has jumped by twenty cents. Where before the low end of the range for a lot of keywords was $.10 or even less, now there are NO keywords in our lists that start any lower than $.34 — and these are the same keywords we’ve used before.
Has anyone else noticed that, or is it just a statistical anomaly at my end?
]]>I am being specific and yet sometimes my item never appears even pages later. By the way, I don’t search the pages anymore. If I try twice and do not get what I want, I am gone and many times I never return.
Plus, I have been having a rash of problems with orders through Amz lately that I really do not want to shop there anymore.
I have started getting Epubs so I do not have to deal with Amz so much. My Kindle hardly sees the Internet since it takes me days to get my Kindle operating again to where I can find my books. I only load 100 at a time but Amz just hijacks my Kindle and loads it down making it so slow I think it died. My default for books is a bogus computer.
So I am steady looking for other sources for my needs and Amz lost my business. As for free books, there is a gamut of other sources but I will post my reviews on Amz.
]]>Try BookBub. It’s so good that your visibility will jump over the problem. I’ve never paid for an Amazon ad, but I can see what you mean about all this – I remember when having a Facebook author page was worth doing, then, a few years back, it became ‘pay to promote’, and suddenly no one was seeing my posts anymore. I also agree with you about the problem of strapped-for-cash authors spending money on ads rather than editing and proofreading. They’ve been spending it on glorious covers that do not mirror the standard of what is inside, for years, alas.
]]>It’s ridiculous that authors have to now pay for their own books to show at the top of a search specifically for their name.
Even if they just moved the Sponsored books more toward the middle of the page (which I think they used to do? I might be misremembering), that would be a big improvement.
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