Algorithms

The past four weeks my book sales have been consistent and slightly higher than in previous months, unless of course I happened to be running promotions in said time periods. That must mean the books have been selling during the weeks as well as the weekends, the latter of which is when I advertise. I run ads on BookBub Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and that’s been it for a while now. It made me wonder if the higher volume is a result of reaching some threshold on Amazon for number of ratings, mainly since the change occurred around the time First crossed the 200-rating mark. If you do a search about the topic, people say the ratings don’t matter to the Amazon algorithms. But who really knows? Amazon isn’t saying. All I can go by is my own experience, and something seems to have changed. Don’t know if it’s our computer overlords running things behind the scenes, if the occasional weekend ads are cumulatively having an effect, or if something else is going on. Regardless, as always I’m grateful to everyone who buys my books, however they find out about them.