I saw an app called AmzChief (by WhiteHatBox). The sales page for it says:
"AmzChief can help you boost your product rank on Amazon by simulating real human traffic. It's probably the fastest and easiest way to make your product stand on the first page of Amazon search."
and
"On Amazon, the more traffic comes to your product, the better your product rank is."
My question is: would this work for Kindle books on the Kindle store also?
Will a book increase its ranking because of traffic to the book's Amazon page? OR are downloads / purchases the only ranking factor for books?
If I send a ton of traffic (bot traffic, etc) to a book's Amazon page, will its ranking increase?
By the way, has anyone used AmzChief or know if it's any good?
No, thousands of bot visits to your kindle page will not increase your rank. Rank is affected by sales and borrows only. Messing around with bots is the surest way to get yourself kicked off amazon. They are very sophisticated at knowing where traffic is coming from. They have learned a lot over the years. Kindle Black hatters never come to a good end.
(09-09-2019 06:15 AM)MoneyMaven Wrote: [ -> ]No, thousands of bot visits to your kindle page will not increase your rank. Rank is affected by sales and borrows only. Messing around with bots is the surest way to get yourself kicked off amazon. They are very sophisticated at knowing where traffic is coming from. They have learned a lot over the years. Kindle Black hatters never come to a good end.
Thanks for your reply, but can you tell me how you know this?
Do you know of any tests someone might have done?
Is there a factual knowledge base on this kind of thing?
I understand what you are saying and that would be my assumption, too. But I have no factual evidence to support any opinion, so I'm curious.
Based on some recent, very simple, experiments of my own (and some observations of the performance of other kindle publishers) I am suspicious that downloads/purchases/borrows/pages read are NOT the only factors in a book rising up the Amazon ranking.
I can't publicly give my reasons for suspecting this, unfortunately.
But I am curious to know if anyone else has seen rankings increase based on other factors.
After all, it would make sense that EG:
If 2 books had EXACTLY the same ranking / reviews / purchases / etc and both were at, say, rank #500,000 then one got a few hundred views, some wishlist adds, and some look insides, it would make sense to me that book would rise in the ranking above the other.
I've just been reading Kboards for years where lots of tests were done by various people, and this is just what I've come to believe. I don't have any actual proof though. Amazon algos are sometimes said to be unknowable, so I suppose it's possible they've changed it.
Don't mess around with bots as your amazon kdp account might be banned quickly.
My advice.
If you get 10,000 visits to your product from a search for eg "Military Thriller" and NONE buy the book then do you really think Amazon will push your book up the rankings? It'll drop it like a stone, because it's not converting. It'll prefer the book that IT (ie Amazon) thinks is a military thriller based on keywords, manuscript analysis, and also-boughts which has only has 100 visits and 1 sale.