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[Nancy]

Hi Todd,
It wasn't a complaint, just a question. You deserve a vacation with all the effort you put into the site. We all appreciate it.

[Carole]

S.A. wrote:
Mine needs more! :-)

http://www.amazon.com/Infernova-S-Ale..."

Hi S.A. I've just tagged your Infernova -- ticked all of them. If you would like to reciprocate you will find my Ferryman at: http://www.amazon.com/Ferryman-Carole...

[Carole]

I have checked all addresses given above and see I have tagged them all, S.A. being the last. If you all have kept up with Todd's TMBOA I'm sure you will have already tagged my Ferryman --- But I do have a problem on the Amazon.co.uk site. Where I have 60-70+ tags on the US site, I only have 4 tags on the uk site. I would be very grateful if somebody could bump this up a bit for me! If you are willing to have a go, you will find the site here:
http://tinyurl.com.au/x.php?1ve7

[S.A.]

Carole:

Consider yourself tagged, on both sides of the pond!

[Susanne]

Nice to see this idea is spreading! (Hi, Rowena!) Here is my info:

Title: Dance Macabre

Lily Rafferty is a dancehall girl in 1897 London. Caught in a web of poverty and injustice, she thinks her luck might finally be about to change.

Rhys Trevan Morgan, Viscount Talfryn suffers under a terrible curse. Is Lily the answer to his prayers … or his doom?

Tags: paranormal romance, kindle romance, vampire romance

http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Macabre/d...

[Nancy]

Hi Susanne,
I tagged you and would appreciate the favor.Thanks.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?...

[Robert]

Susanne wrote: "Nice to see this idea is spreading! (Hi, Rowena!) Here is my info:

Title: Dance Macabre

Lily Rafferty is a dancehall girl in 1897 London. Caught in a web of poverty and injustice, she thinks ..."

Susanne I tagged you. Here is mine:
http://bit.ly/s6eQd
http://bit.ly/Qwj2z
http://bit.ly/8oTmX
http://bit.ly/kmhOi

[Susanne]

Gotcha! I am going through the Tag You're It on the website...will be much easier when I'm caught up! :)

[Todd Fonseca]

Kevis wrote: "Hi Todd,

I have a question. Is it too late to change one of my requested tags? I would like to use the tag "ya fantasy" instead of "Young Adult fantasy". But of course, I would need your help in t..."

Kevis,
I'll change it when I update the site. If for some reason you don't see it, let me know!
T

[Todd Fonseca]

Nancy wrote: "Hi Todd,
It wasn't a complaint, just a question. You deserve a vacation with all the effort you put into the site. We all appreciate it.
"

Nancy, no worries! I'm glad folks are using the site!

[Kevis]

Todd wrote: "Kevis wrote: "Hi Todd,

I have a question. Is it too late to change one of my requested tags? I would like to use the tag "ya fantasy" instead of "Young Adult fantasy". But of course, I would need ..."

Thanks Todd. It will help me out a lot!

[Alice]

Hi Everyone, I'm sort of new to this group and don't know about the "Tagging" that you all comment about. What is it all about?

[Carole]

S.A. wrote: "Carole:

Consider yourself tagged, on both sides of the pond!"

S.A. You could say I was floundering at one end of that pond, :>) thanks for the lifejacket!

[Dr]

Todd, here is an idea that you and our other friends here might use to promote their work. I use it and it works for me. Take a look at Triond.com and check out how you can write for pay. (Now, you won't make much that's for sure) But, here is the good part. You can link your own professional work to your submission. You can submit as many articles as you like. Triond sells them to various advertising agencies who in turn advertise for other companies and you get paid for hits. Honestly, it is not complicated. There are various ways to link your major work to this outlet and one way is through your profile and another is through the word links in your submission. You can also submit an article on your book, poetry or whatever. You can submit on just about anything imaginable. Here is my latest and if you like it, click the "I like button at the bottom"..
http://gomestic.com/personal-finance/...
One other thing I do and you might do as well, in the tags, put things that relate to your submission, but also put the complete name of your book or other works and also your professional name. If you don't believe it works, Google my name and you will see bunches of articles that I have submitted.

I hope this helps boost everyone over the top in sales.
Dr Robert E McGinnis

[Todd Fonseca]

Robert,
Thanks for the idea - I'll check it out!
Todd

[Todd Fonseca]

Kevis,
I updated your post to "ya fantasy" and tagged both kindle and paper back.

Wow all, I've got a lot to update on the site - this is going to take some time...
T

[Todd Fonseca]

Kevis,
I updated your post to "ya fantasy" and tagged both kindle and paper back.

Wow all, I've got a lot to update on the site - this is going to take some time...
T

[Todd Fonseca]

Okay all, I've updated the site with a number of new books - enjoy!

http://tagmybookonamazon.wordpress.com/

[Nancy]

I got all of you in Todd's latest batch tagged except Infernova. For some reason only a photo would come up, no tags.

Nancy
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?...

[Carole]

Hi Todd, Well done getting that lot up and sorted. I too have tagged them all. I had the same problem as Nancy with The Infernova, but it was no problem for me as I had already tagged that one in the last couple of days.

Nancy wrote: "I got all of you in Todd's latest batch tagged except Infernova. For some reason only a photo would come up, no tags.

Amazon UK
Still no real joy on the Amazon.co.uk site. My tags still show only 4 each, and one of those must be mine! If anybody wants to help the UK site is here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Caro...

[Kevis]

Todd wrote: "Kevis,
I updated your post to "ya fantasy" and tagged both kindle and paper back.

Wow all, I've got a lot to update on the site - this is going to take some time...
T"

Thank you so much, Todd. It's already making a difference in my tag score. Cheers!

[S.A.]

Thanks for getting me on the main page, Todd!
But as pointed out above, it is just going to an image. The url link shouyld be:

http://www.amazon.com/Infernova-S-Ale...

Thanks for your efforts in doing your great site.

[Todd Fonseca]

S.A. - it's fixed!

[S.A.]

Thank you, Todd. Will do another tag-fest tonight. (Still working through the archives)

[Kevis]

Currently tagging all the July submissions. If I don't get them all today, I'll finish tagging them tomorrow.

[Kevis]

All done!!! :)

[Todd Fonseca]

Hey all - I updated all July posts. Happy tagging:

http://tagmybookonamazon.wordpress.co...

[Carole]

Thanks for the latest list for July, Todd! I have completed my tagging today. I see Ferryman on the UK site has received a couple more tags. I live in hopes for more as time goes by.

Matt Thomas -- I tagged your book on the Amazon UK list today, and left you a message there.

Cheers everyone.

[Rowena]

Hi, everyone!

I didn't get an email reminder while I was in Europe for all July, but will now go and do some tagging.

By the way, I'd very much appreciate some votes for my cover, title, blurb on the page at
Award me stars

[Carole]

Rowena wrote: "Hi, everyone!

By the way, I'd very much appreciate some votes for my cover, title, blurb on..."

Okay, Rowena, I've added my stars. Best of luck for Insufficient Mating Material.

Carole
Author of Ferryman

[Kevis]

Hello everyone. I posted this message on Todd's site But I thought it would be great to post it here as well. It concerns an issue that is relevant to us 'taggers'. Here is the message:


"I would like to bring something to everyone’s attention. Since joining this site, I have noticed that many authors do not take the time to enter the requested tags. Instead, they simply go to the sales page and click on the tags that are already there. Because of this practice, many of the books featured on this site are not moving up in the requested categories, including mine.

This is not how the system is meant to work. Every author needs to double check to make certain that the requested tags are included in the tags they click. If you do not see the tag on the author’s sales page, you need to type the tag in yourself.

I want to alert everyone to this problem because I realize that some of us are not playing by the same rules as everyone else."

(END OF MESSAGE)

Just some food for thought.

[Dee]

The Tag Team Turns One-Year-Old

First off, thank you so much Todd, for all your hard work over this past year of tagging.

Not sure if anyone noticed, but 94 new books were posted in July 2009 [I know, because it just took me nearly 2 hours to play tag catch-up...as my computer has been offline due to major remodel of my house:].

Anyway...here are some Interesting Tag Stats

August 2008 = 19 books to tag
Sept. 2008 = 20 books to tag
Oct. 2008 = 19 books to tag
Nov 2008 = 20 books to tag
Dec. 2008 = 31 books to tag
Jan. 2009 = 55 books to tag
Feb. 2009 = 33 books to tag
March 2009 = 29 books to tag
April 2009 = 31 books to tag
May 2009 = 49 books to tag
June 2009 = 65 books to tag
July 2009 = 94 books to tag

Which comes to a total of 465 books on the "tag me" pages.

If only half of the people that have posted books, tagged all the books, each book on the tag team would have a minimum of 232 tags.

If only half of the authors, tagged half the books...that would mean that each book should have at least 116 tags.

Ironically, the June and July 2009 books have an average of over 100 tags, while the Oct. and Nov 2008 books have between 65 & 70 tags.

Looking at the stats, there appears to be a majority of authors that just want to list their books on the tag-team and not bother to tag other author's books.

I personally would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to tag the 2008 books...and a special thank you to Todd for taking so much of his valuable writing time posting new books to the tag site.

Remember...Tagging is a Team Sport :]

Happy One Year Anniversary Tag Team!

Dee Marie
Sons of Avalon Merlin's Prophecy
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615...

[J.R.]

Interesting statistics Dee. And Amen to the thanks to Todd. He started this thing and deserves a lot of the credit for keeping it going.

[Nancy]

465! Amazing, Dee. Since I'm caught up and current, I went back to a random 2008 month, October this time, and took a look. I had tagged most, but I found a missed few and tagged 'em. I'll do that for other months in future. Some of the ones I tagged had fewer than 30 tags. Maybe people got discouraged and stopped tagging.
Nancy Lynn Jarvis, The Death Contingency and Backyard Bones https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?...

[Kevis]

J.R. wrote: "Maybe people got discouraged and stopped tagging."

If this is the case, then those authors need to have their books removed from the site. It isn't fair that we are making the effort to tag other author's books and they are not reciprocating.

I've heard that there is a way to find out if an author has been tagging books or not. I would love to know how to do this because I will happily go back and remove my tags from any author's book who has not been tagging mine as well. It's not me being vindictive. It's me being fair.

[Dee]

Hey Kevis,

You are too funny :]

Actually, if I were you, I would just accept that some authors just don't tag while others do...and thank the authors who "are" playing by the rules.

After all, why take away from your writing time :]

By the way, are you working on a new novel?

Oh, and I only posted the stats because I love stats. Also, I thought it was interesting to see how the Tag Team concept has evolved over the past year.

Plus, it truly amazes me that Todd can keep up with everyone. Todd is an author's best friend :]

[Todd Fonseca]

Kevis,

There is a way to check tags. When I have time it is something I do and then contact/remove authors who aren't participating. Unfortunately, this has turned into a big task (as you can imagine) and I don't get to checking as often as I'd like. I'm sure if I took the time I could program something to do this for me but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

For those who would like to know how to check on their own. Type in "Amazon [name of author:] profile".

In my case "Amazon todd fonseca profile" and the profile page comes up. On the left hand column you can see my "tag could". Click on "see all tags" - then you will get:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/tagging/mana...

Then you can see all 632 products I've tagged so far!

Happy hunting...

[Todd Fonseca]

All,

For those who may wonder if this whole tagging business is really worth the effort. Check this out.

Occasionally I check search engines (so far Bing actually seems to do the best job) to see where my book comes up.

Today I found an article in the Washington Examiner which lists what kids are reading. At the top of the list in this article - my book! As I've mentioned to others it's not immediately about sales but building a presence. I'm convinced sales come over time. My own experience has been my last 3 months of total sales on amazon outpaced the first 9 months total.

Check out the article here and keep tagging it does make a difference!!!

http://dev.www.washingtonexaminer.com...

[Todd Fonseca]

Since we are all friends here, I hope you allow me a brief shameless moment. Check out this site:

http://astore.amazon.com/scifiwizard-...

Imagine my surprise to find my book listed along with books by Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, and HG Wells!

[Jaimey]

Todd wrote: "Since we are all friends here, I hope you allow me a brief shameless moment. Check out this site:

http://astore.amazon.com/scifiwizard-...

Imagine my surprise to find my bo..."

Congrats, Todd!!

On another note, anyone wanting to see the books I've tagged, look for "Laura Miller" instead of "Jaimey Grant". Due to some problems with a smearer on Amazon, I changed my profile to my real name. I have not managed to catch up with July's tags yet, but I am caught up to that point. I will try to get more tagged today. Sorry it's taking me so long...

~Laura/Jaimey :o)

[Todd Fonseca]

Okay everyone - August books are up!

I changed the format slightly to have the tags up higher closer to the book's link.

http://tagmybookonamazon.wordpress.co...

[Valjeanne]

I've been AWOL for awhile too. Sorry! My job has me stretched out :) But I'm bakc to do some tagging :)!

[Maria]

Hi everyone, I just wanted to confirm that Todd's system really works! My book is now no. 1 in the Family Saga community!! Thank you, Thank you! to those who've tagged my book. Keep tagging it so it'll stay at the top! I will go and tag some more of your books now :)

Maria

[Amanda]

Hi all. I'm new to the group and added my book (Tightening the Knot) for tagging. I started back at the beginning with the August 2008 books. It's going to take me a while to catch up, but I promise to keep working on it.

[Alice]

You have finally convinced me. Vacation time and family visits have almost finished. I'll get to work as soon as I catch my breath.

Todd, for all you're doing.

[Dee]

Congrats Todd,

That is amazing news!

[Carole]

Todd wrote: "Kevis,

There is a way to check tags. When I have time it is something I do and then contact/remove authors who aren't participating. Unfortunately, this has turned into a big task (as you can im..."

Hi Todd, thanks for the instructions--I have just been there and I see I have tagged 597 books. Fantastic, I never thought it was that many.

Good news from the Washington Examiner.

[Kevis]

Dee wrote: "Hey Kevis,

You are too funny :]

Actually, if I were you, I would just accept that some authors just don't tag while others do...and thank the authors who "are" playing by the rules.

After all, why take away from your writing time :]

By the way, are you working on a new novel?

"

Dee,

You are certainly right that it's probably a waste of precious writing time to go nuts trying to figure out who is tagging my books and who isn't. Ultimately, Todd's site has been pivotal in helping to make my books more noticeable. Truly, I don't have very much to complain about. I guess I just needed to vent a little.

Regarding your question, I am currently writing the sequels my books The Legend of Witch Bane and Rogue Hunter. Readers have been begging me to get them done and I certainly would hate to disappoint! Hopefully, I'll be able to get them completed before the year is up. Thanks for asking!

[Faith]

Sorry - guilty too; I've been away, busy writing new novel, done some book signings, chasing up bookshops that stock my book, living, .....
I promise I'll catch up and do some more tagging!!

[Rowena]

Thank you very much indeed, Carole. I appreciate all the help I can get. One worthy rival has been asking for votes on Twitter, and has romped ahead.

Carole wrote: "Rowena wrote: "Hi, everyone!

By the way, I'd very much appreciate some votes for my cover, title, blurb on http://tinyurl.com/Award-5-Stars

Okay, Rowena, I've added my stars. Best of luck for Insufficient Mating Material.

C..."