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You should get Doug's opinion/recommendation or Melindeloo. They were both in the top 500 at one time (Doug might be even higher. I think he was top 100 at one point).A lot of it is scam. People have their friends go on and upvote their reviews. Doug had quite a few stories in the past of shenanigans that go on with reviews.
Doug also has a facebook page for reviews where he posts the link to his review on amazon and asks for likes/upvotes if his facebook friends find the review helpful.
I used to review on Amazon and will still occasionally if I get a rare ARC (its only happened like 4 times). I prefer to review on goodreads, its not as strict or painful to post a review.
One of LAB's reviews was used in a book! I think that's better than a bazillion likes.
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Thanks, Doug, for your insights. I only buy Kindle books from Amazon US, stuff that needs shipping I get from Amazon Germany.I've wondered about my reviews with comparably many helpful votes that get buried on page 13 and thereabouts and just assumed that maybe I also got a lot of unhelpful votes for some reason (unfortunately they are not shown anymore, so it is difficult to tell).
Along with AVP I think another factor is also getting your review up early, so that people see it when they visit the product page and that's where I had problems with the AVP: you have to wait a certain amount of time after purchase before it appears, even if the books is already on your Kindle.
And you are right, I have observed that I moved up in rankings simply by posting reviews even if I didn't get any helpful votes...
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Does anyone here know how to follow a reviewer? I wanted to add a reviewer to the handful that I follow and couldn't figure out how to do it.
Doug... I recently received an ARC for The Winter of the Witch.
I posted my review as soon as Ammy would take it. My review is at the bottom of page 5. Behind such glorious declarations like-- "What an amazing, magical story. So well written and a perfect ending to Vasya's story."
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"Extremely well written"
Both of which were written days after my review, and appear on page 2. I don't know what their process is, but I have never been a page 1 or even a page 2 reviewer.
HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "Does anyone here know how to follow a reviewer? I wanted to add a reviewer to the handful that I follow and couldn't figure out how to do it."Sorry, just saw this post now. Go to their profile page and just beneath the banner on the right side there should be a button saying [+Follow]. If you don't see that button it's because the reviewer has opted out of being followed, which you can do on your profile page under [Edit privacy settings] (at the bottom) you can uncheck this option...
Monadh, thanks for responding. The person I wanted to follow had probably opted out.
Its also really annoying when there are obvious bogus reviews and Amazon does nothing about it. I was looking for headphones for my husband for valentines day. This one came up at a solid 5* rating, but if you look at the reviews, they are all dated February 12 and all by "Amazon Customer" or the same people over and over again. 565 reviews! Its annoying because I tried to post a review and amazon rejected it because I complained too much about the seller (amazon) and they said the review was not enough about the product.https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Bluet...
Grace Burrowes's new book has at least one review that is for a different book.
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I am trying to get among the top 10'000 reviewers (still a ways off) and it's kind of frustrating not getting any helpful votes, partly because buyers don't get to see my reviews.
Sometimes I also look at those reviewers that are somewhere in the 9900+ slot to find out what I have to do differently for my reviews to get more helpful votes. And there I discovered a reviewer with less than a hundred reviews but over 1500 helpful votes, so I went to look at their profile. They got over 1500 votes for one review and it said "Love, love, love". Gah!