12 Tips for Your Professional Amazon Author Page
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Once your book goes live on Amazon you are eligible for an Amazon Author Central Account – and your very own web page on Amazon! Best of all: There is no advertising on your site, just a large image of your book(s), your reviews and your book’s description.
Not only get your Amazon website a very high page rank, Author Central tools are very effective in marketing your books and promoting yourself as an author.
Use your Author Central page to provide more information for your readers: upcoming events, a complete listing of your books, more images and videos, your book trailer and even excerpts from your blog.
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How to Set Up Your Amazon Author Central Account
Amazon explains: once published, expect to receive an email from Kindle Direct Publishing announcing the news and inviting you to create your Amazon Author Central Account. Note your book’s ASIN enclosed in the email. You will need this to locate your book later and associate it to you as the author. Just sign up for free accounts on both sites, and follow the instructions to set up your page:
Be the “Face” of Your Book:
Add a professional author photo & biography
Add all your books
Add videos (e.g. trailers for your books)
Add up to seven additional photos, e.g. you writing your books or scenes from your book
Add images or graphics from your books content
Add a biography – make sure to update it frequently
List events, such as book readings or book launches
Add your Twitter address so people can see your latest Tweet and easily follow you
Set up the “Search Inside/Look Inside” feature
Add an RSS feed, linking to your blog – a great way to get your blog in front of new people and encourage them to follow you
View and edit the list of books you have written – the Amazon system doesn’t always get it right. If you have written more than one book, it will link your titles together, and allow your readers to find all of your work.
Edit your product description and “about the author” section, add any professional reviews you have had.
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More Features
Track Your Sales – Find out where your sales are happening using the geographic location function and find out your Amazon ranking.
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One of the biggest advantages as an Amazon Kindle published Author is your own web page, complete with a URL, on a powerful Amazon website just for you!
You need a separate account, both for the UK and US versions of Amazon; you have to do everything twice, and be aware that the two versions vary slightly.
Amazon Author Central UK: http://authorcentral.amazon.co.uk
Amazon Author Central US: http://authorcentral.amazon.com
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