Too many people sacrifice
the visibility of the book title or author name so they don't cover up the art.
Not exact matches
Formatting can increase the
visibility of your
book on search engines, and you want your
title to be the one that pops up when readers are shopping online for their next good read.
The more widely available a
book title is and the more publishing formats a
book has on the
book market, the higher both the
visibility and chances are
of being discovered by potential readers.
Has any
of you had the experience
of having a
book's success (or failure...) influence your
book's
visibility and / or sales / downloads due to its having a similar or the same
title?
A couple years ago, when free downloads
of books counted toward the paid ranking on Amazon when a
title reverted to paid, running a KDP Select free promotion for a handful
of days was a useful way to gain
visibility.
I personally don't find it so — it ensures that a
title at $ 14.99 will see three times the
visibility my
title at $ 4.99 will see, even if the sale price
of the
book is more like $ 9.99 or $ 7.99.
In addition to these
titles, I've also worked with a lot
of first time authors and built campaigns that got their
book a lot
of visibility.
Use the latest machine learning technology to increase
visibility of your
titles online, and to help more readers discover your
books.
Presumably, so long as I avoid certain pitfalls
of self - publishing (improper editing, crappy cover design, and lazy marketing), the only big disadvantages
of going indie would be
visibility: hurdles to jump to get brick - and - mortar locations to stock the
title, and to get Amazon and other online retailers to stick the
book cover somewhere noticeable (Hugh Howey is a very convincing pseudo-advocate for self - publishing).
And if you click on one
of the search terms, like, «Selling
books on Amazon,» it will take you to the page below where you'll see another technique for increasing
visibility: Several
of these authors have included the popular search term in their
title, which also helps with their ranking.
You still have to do enough promotion to get a
title into the Top 100
of your category, otherwise it's not getting any kind
of visibility boost, especially if it's a newer
title and isn't in many other
books» also - boughts.
By putting your print
titles in front
of the industry's most important
book buyers and decision - makers, we open doors to new sales opportunities and can broaden the reach and
visibility of your
titles.