Review: Helpful short book, but beware...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 7, 2013
This is actually a good/helpful short book for authors. What the author of this book says makes a lot of sense - When I look at the description of my own book, I realize that it could be better and more appealing to readers.But, being a Blogger and being over-fed with SEO and their likes over a few years, I have now started ignoring SEO. I write what I think works for the readers and let the search engine figure out which readers to send in. There are small things we can do to better our SERP, but overdoing them will only strain our relationship with search engines and also readers.The same (I guess) will apply to Amazon eBook SEO as well. All authors need to learn SEO to the extent of garnishing their dish (book) and making them more visible. But trying to 'game' the algorithm will only backfire on the long-run. I personally ignore those books that over-do SEO aspects/copy-writing aspects on the book description page.I was glad that the author keeps it simple and focuses on techniques that increases the visibility of our books. That's why this book gets 4-stars from me. I loved that refresher course on HTML (I knew many of them earlier) and learned 2/3 new codes.This book is good for the price and this is all you may need. Just don't overdo SEO - you're sure to get into trouble. But, it is the responsibility of authors to make sure that their descriptions are attractive enough/visible enough to their readers. That's exactly what this book teaches.<hr><sub>Just to check if Amazon allows html in the reviews</sub> :)