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Amazon and the G slap?

by cmo140
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I have two amazon books out there that I want to SEO them. With Market Samurai it tells me that amazon has 11 years and around 150,000,000 back links going to the domain itself. Now with going to my book page, and going crazy back linking it, will I be hit with the Goggle Slap.

Please let me know what you guys think.
#amazon #slap
  • Profile picture of the author cmo140
    Here is my idea, since amazon has been around for 11 years and has over 150 million links going to it, for my niches, won't it be better to SEO since it has so much juice already. With that much power I should be able to be on most 1 st pages with a little work.

    Originally Posted by karlsult View Post

    I think you don't need to SEO an amazon book listing page.

    But create a site and promote the book on it and SEO the site. Much better. Learn how to if you don't yet know how to create a site or a blog, figure out how to create a site to be able to either to talk about the books, link to them etc...

    You'll get traffic to site that then go buy the books from amazon.

    Or you could even sell books from amazon plus from your own site, even physical books you can. To do that check Speaker Fulfillment Services

    But my advice is that, don't try to get an amazon page highly ranked - it's much worth it doing SEO on your site. Plus more opportunities arise then too if you have your own site.

    Happy Xmas,
    Karl
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    • Profile picture of the author dotslash
      Of course the main drawback is the lack of control. You can leverage their position of course. But what happens if your url changes, what if Amazon reorganise their site, you can't put up a redirect and all your links could disappear in a heartbeat.

      You have absolutely no control as someone above said over any on-page SEO elements as well.

      Neil
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  • Profile picture of the author tjcocker
    You have no control over the on-site seo part of your Amazon page, but figure out how it's ranking already for your keywords then build some links. If it works, then get it to #1. No extra site needed.

    Otherwise if it doesn't work you'll need to build your own site. You'll only know if you try it. I personally think it's better to have your own site. You can expand it to other products, and you have total control. But that's just me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Davioli
    I have absolutely no experience related to Amazon...but perhaps the best way (if its possible) to rank your amazon book high is to have links to that book page coming from other pages on Amazon itself.
    I'm sure there will be ways to do that if you looked closely. Maybe commenting or creating top 10 lists with your amazon book link as one of them.
    Like I said..no experience with Amazon..but its pretty much the same concept as trying to rank a web 2.0 page like squidoo or hubpages. You just have to leverage the authority of Amazon.
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