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There's been a lot of scandal about the sock puppet reviews but reviews are still critical because they give your sales page social proof and they feed into the book site algorithms.

Even though Amazon and others have tried to tighten up against sock puppet reviews, they still happen.

Now if they would just do the same about the sock puppet reviews...

Not exact matches

How does that compare with making a sock puppet account or paying a review service?

Amazon has certainly become a much more crowded space since then, and the sock puppeting that went on this summer (and news such as John Locke and other authors paying for reviews) has also made the credibility of Amazon.com reviews much lower IMHO.

The freak out at sock - puppet reviews.

I don't look at 5 - star reviews for indies, too many sock puppets.

One thing I want to emphasize, is that in no way was I looking to get bullshit sock - puppeted reviews.

Perhaps it was a bigger problem before Amazon's program started removing and blocking most of the shill reviews and sock puppets.

It turned out that Duns — author of the Paul Dark series of spy novels for Simon and Schuster — had done some investigative work on a few Amazon reviews (godspeed, sir, in that abode of the damned) and come up with conclusive proof that bestselling thriller writer R. J. Ellory had engaged in sock puppeting: using aliases to write positive reviews on the site for his own books, whilst slamming those of his rivals.

Like that thriller writer who wrote himself 100s of sock - puppet reviews.

Let's look at these three areas of policy change: Sock - puppet reviews, paid reviews, and author - to - author reviews.

Coincidental with the recent sock - puppet scandal, Amazon began quietly marching a number of reviews off the site and into the darkness.

We think of sock - puppet reviews as those written by someone using multiple accounts set up under false names for the purposes of generating numerous positive reviews of his own work, or scathing reviews of a competitor's work.

Readers are looking for something to help separate the good from the bad and, yes, they know if reviews are posted by sock puppets and challenge those reviews.

Forbes again does a good job in outlining the underlying issue this has created, affectionately known as «sock puppet» reviews.

Reviews, especially good ones that aren't obvious sock - puppet reviews will bring in more rReviews, especially good ones that aren't obvious sock - puppet reviews will bring in more rreviews will bring in more readers.

Some authors have also used «sock puppets» — false identities that they create themselves — to post good reviews they wrote for their own books.

The sock puppet crap is really what annoys me, some get people with 40K amazon accounts to buy and review 1000 times over and then buy competitors and post negative reviews.

Almost any author who is trying to sell books these days has run into the trolls and sock puppets who seem to spend their days leaving nasty or idiotic reviews (for books they obviously haven't read) for no particular purpose except to wield the power they probably don't have in their real lives.

In response to my query on how it has handled «sock puppet» reviews, Amazon sent me a link to its review guidelines with no other comment.

It's a violation of the Terms of Service to attempt to artificially inflate a book's review rankings by creating sock puppet accounts to leave fake reviews, or hiring or bartering with others to do the same.

So far, 56 authors — including Laura Lippman, Michael Connelly and Lee Child — have signed this statement vowing they'll never create «sock puppet» reviews.

Not to mention the recent hoopla about sock - puppet reviews on Amazon and authors buying reviews (like John Locke supposedly did — all 300 of them or so people say...)

The paid review and sock - puppet review scandals that rocked Amazon this summer after revelations by Locke — and an embarrassing number of others — have resulted in a draconian crackdown on all Amazon reviews.

They claim this is because their TOS guidelines ban reviewing by a «competitor,» and this protects against attacks on rivals by sock puppets.

That's rich coming from a guy who phoned in his Steyn review with nothing to back him up but an ugly misogynist sock puppet.