Sentences with phrase «how authors ranked»

Here's how authors ranked specific items and the frequency with which they said they were important:

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Here is how the author described Ève: Ève Laurier quickly climbed the ranks, reaching the position of vice-president of strategic relationships for Richter.

If you search for the phrase «social media and SEO» you'll still be inundated with quite a few «low authority» websites that have been written by authors who know how to max out their search rankings without necessarily gaining an organic following based on their expertise.

In an interesting gauge of how fast the ranks of scientists are growing, the authors determined that in 1997, 16,877 scientists entered the scientific literature who would then maintain UCP — would continue publishing at least one new paper per year — through 2012.

The shift in opinion occurs because people are shocked when they learn how poorly their own district ranks nationally, the authors say.

The Case Against High School Sports In this article published by The Atlantic author Amanda Ripley, describes the role of high school sports in the American education system, how current resource allocations favor sports over academics and consequences as American students fall behind in international rankings and draws on Marguerite...

In this article published by The Atlantic author Amanda Ripley, describes the role of high school sports in the American education system, how current resource allocations favor sports over academics and consequences as American students fall behind in international rankings and draws on Marguerite Roza's research.

In an article in Boston Magazine (September 2014), entitled «How tests are failing our schools», author Zachary Jason reported that «rank - and - file teachers across the state hail Madeloni as a savior.

It's certainly great to know how it benefits authors (for now) in term of payout and improve category rankings.

I have included my author rank for Fantasy / Science Fiction (bottom graph), to show you how the giveaway has had no impact on that, since Smile is a children's book.

While users may not be aware, I'm a Colorado resident, and the Amazon Affiliate program is how NovelRank survives as a free service for authors to track their sales rank.

Because 99 % of Kindle authors don't know how to increase their search engine rankings in Amazon and Google.

For the latest on improving your book's ranking, read How to Sell a Ton of Books With BookBub: A Tale of Two Authors.

Robertson quite freely admits that he only looked at a very small sample for each genre compared to the total number of titles published, and unlike the Author Earnings report with its thousands of titles to base its report upon, the focus of this glimpse wasn't sales, but how publishing method affected ranking.

[Snipped section that talks about some of the affected books, and how those authors» Amazon rankings are slipping while they are raising at B&N.com.

Next time I want to talk about your author ranking on amazon, and how it can turn you into a mass murderer.

Without having clear information on how the publishing house intended to promote her book, Ward opted for the self - publishing and higher royalty route, a choice that has made her an incredibly high ranking author despite having turned down over $ 1.5 million in advances in the past year alone.

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My Amazon Author Rank, a ranking of how many sales authors have generated over the last month, is just above 10,000 and I've talked with several authors that make more than $ 5,000 a month on their books.

The comprehensive and exhaustingly complete report provides graphs on a variety of factors in publishing, all aimed at determining where the sales are taking place, how the bestseller lists are ranking works, discovering how authors have been compensated for their books, and more.

On the other hand, I wonder how we indie authors will get any visibility, if Amazon is calculating ranking based on list price, not on sales price, as it would appear they are doing.

Thanks to Amazon Book sales rankings, authors know how physical book sales through Amazon are getting affected.

The rest, as far as I can tell, is information that's more closely guarded that the Hope Diamond — and perhaps rightfully so, since authors and publishers can drive themselves crazy by staring at those numbers, hour after hour, and trying to figure out how to change them for the better, and then how to maintain their rankings.

Equally odd was how several of my other titles could sell 60 % less than a few of my fellow authors» books, and yet be ranked higher.

Readers also want to decide for themselves how many stars they're looking for in Kindle rankings, and how many reviews are enough protection against gaming the system by an author or publisher's friends and fellow booksellers.

By simply entering the URL of a book page from the Amazon Kindle store into the field below you can instantly retrieve information about that title such as the book's current sales rank, author, price, an estimate of how many sales the book is making each day, and an estimate of how much money the author makes each day from the sales of that title.

When I reviewed How to Get Good Reviews on Amazon: A Guide for Independent Authors & Sellers here a few years ago, I noted that reviewer ranking is influenced by the number of times that site users select «yes» when asked «Was this review helpful to you?»

Now as Amazon ranking work on total earnings (no one knows fully how they work, bar someone at Amazon, and God, and neither are telling me — but dollar sales value is part of it) we can work out that some of those female authors did outsell the male competitors ranked above them.

Author ranking gives us clues how we should categorize our books on Amazon for greater discoverability and tells us what our major is.

Although not selected by Scout, Nick of Time is her highest ranked book so far, with thousands of page views on Kindle Unlimited (a subscription program that pays the author based on how many pages are read).

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How SEO Can Work Wonders for Book Authors SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the process that makes a web page earn higher rankings in search engines such as Google.

Morris Rosenthal on Kindle Sales Rankings: On another front, the guy who has done more than any other commentator to parse Amazon Sales Rankings and their meaning over the past decade, author and indie publisher Morris Rosenthal of Foner Books, has turned his attention very useful to the meaning of Kindle Store Sales Rankings in a recent post entitled How Many Kindle eBooks Are Selling Based On Amazon Sales Ranking.

Did you see the video I made on how to track your rankings through author central?

Guys, as someone pointed out above, the phrase «author» or «writer» is so bandied about these days, that you only need ask 1 question to assess how well they're really doing: WHAT»S YOUR AMAZON RANK?

If they're with a traditional small or mid-sized press, they may have an ebook, but they don't know how to get online reviews or set up an Amazon author page, so their book ranks at about # 7,891,000.

And I don't think it denigrates authors for us to rank publishers by how high they've set the bar.

To your question, for authors, I think the blog is most important, but one has to know how to make it effective (target audience, visual, etc), Twitter, Facebook, Google + (although ranking this one is tough, especially if you are focused on page rank — if so, you NEED to be active here), and then website (but again, if you are properly focused for page rank, a website can be invaluable).

I don't think the boxset authors or organizers are doing anything wrong, and I do think the idea of boxsets and working together is powerful; but I can also understand how things like gifting books to inflate rank seems like «buying your way» onto the bestseller lists (which is something many traditionally published books have done with a huge advertising budget).

Aaand on a related note, how do people feel about a major online distributor manually manipulating book rankings (and admitting it to the authors) to remove books from the bestseller list?

Denise Wakeman presents Authors — How to Use Pinterest for Dull Topics and High Search Ranking posted at The Future of Ink, saying, «Authors, don't ignore Pinterest as a source of great traffic to your book or author blog.

Will you evaluate all publicity on how it affects your Author Rank?

The biggest downside to this week's publicity for Sales Rank Express — at least, so far — is that Jeff Bezos was perusing The Times over breakfast, came across the phrase «whose Web site can tell authors how many of their books Amazon has in stock and track sales,» and freaked.

He shared great tips for authors to improve their Kindle book ranking, as well as how to get Amazon to send traffic to your book.

Ten years later, he is still traveling, and is the author of a critically acclaimed novel, ranked in the New York Times best - selling list, «How to Travel the World on $ 50 a Day.»

I see problems with: * you have to be an active promoter of yourself to get articles read * the review process (mainly there is no ability to assess why rejected articles are rejected and the time wasting because of pedantic comments) * project - based funding and treating research like consulting (if I can tell you how much a project will cost, then by definition it is not research) * since academia seems to be drifting towards consulting, researchers start to become underpaid compared to peers in consulting * the focus on the number of publications weighted by the rank of the journal * status is based on if you publish in a high - rank journal, «selected» to be a lead author, and so on, and not whether you do good and creative research, good collaborator, good colleague to peers, etc..

Google author rank, authorship, and cloud are just two examples, but there are many of how these different sites are going to weed out the fakers from the real people.