Comments on: Amazon Reviews and Timestamps https://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/2016/01/31/amazon-reviews-and-timestamps/ Romance Author With A Few Opinions Sat, 20 Feb 2016 01:53:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 By: Carolyn Jewel https://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/2016/01/31/amazon-reviews-and-timestamps/#comment-78261 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 01:53:56 +0000 http://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/?p=5642#comment-78261 In reply to Bec.

Bec:
I’m not sure there’s a definitive answer to your question because we don’t know the exact circumstances under which Amazon will conclude a review should be removed.
In the main, I’d say don’t worry about it. It’s an author problem, not a reader problem. As a reader you should do exactly what you want to do (within the bound of Amazon’s rules for reader reviews). Follow all the authors you love on all the social media you like. Sign up for all the newsletters you want!

As a reviewer who wants their Amazon reviews to stay up, I’m not quite sure what to say. If you bought a book you reviewed, then you should be able to review it. I would say, accepting an Amazon gift of a book from an author where you later post a review of that book is not a good idea. Amazon does appear to have an issue with that. I’m kind of at a loss because Amazon isn’t saying much and it’s clear whatever process they have in place gets enough false positives that authors notice.

I think I haven’t been very helpful. If your reviews aren’t being removed then just keep doing what you’re doing.

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By: Bec https://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/2016/01/31/amazon-reviews-and-timestamps/#comment-78260 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 01:19:43 +0000 http://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/?p=5642#comment-78260 Interesting, but too complex for me to fully understand though.
If you could just clarify a point for me please, is it detrimental to “like” an author on Facebook, sign up for their newsletters, follow on Twitter? I post quite a few reviews and I wouldn’t want to risk having any removed

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By: Beverley Eikli https://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/2016/01/31/amazon-reviews-and-timestamps/#comment-78185 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 20:13:37 +0000 http://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/?p=5642#comment-78185 Thanks, Carolyn, for explaining so much in language I could understand. I’ve learned a lot today. 🙂

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By: Iola https://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/2016/01/31/amazon-reviews-and-timestamps/#comment-78184 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:10:20 +0000 http://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/?p=5642#comment-78184 Thanks Carolyn. I saw the original “tutorial” and my immediate reaction was to call it rubbish (as you say, why wasn’t it warning against using Amazon Associate links, which 100% identify the creator of the link). However, I don’t have the technical IT skills to explain why so I appreciate you taking the time to cover it.

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By: Kristi https://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/2016/01/31/amazon-reviews-and-timestamps/#comment-78183 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:55:23 +0000 http://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/?p=5642#comment-78183 Thanks,
Super helpful. I passed it along to everyone I know who saw the K-lytics video.

I appreciate you taking the time to clear this up 🙂

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By: Pamela Aares https://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/2016/01/31/amazon-reviews-and-timestamps/#comment-78182 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:49:24 +0000 http://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/?p=5642#comment-78182 Thank you Carolyn for taking the time to share your wisdom and experience!

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By: Carolyn Jewel https://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/2016/01/31/amazon-reviews-and-timestamps/#comment-78179 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 03:08:30 +0000 http://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/?p=5642#comment-78179 In reply to Paul Salvette.

Thanks! Use clean links? Sure!

But a qid value playing the role they identify? No.

The source of that tutorial was another site that also got just about everything wrong, but I didn’t have the energy to point out a whole second set of misunderstandings of how website sessions work.

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By: Paul Salvette https://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/2016/01/31/amazon-reviews-and-timestamps/#comment-78178 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 02:17:16 +0000 http://carolynjewel.com/wordpress/?p=5642#comment-78178 Thanks, Carolyn. Excellent analysis and I suspected some of the takeaways on the tutorial were a bit suspicious.

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