Help! Amazon Removed My Kindle Book Reviews

About this video

Dale Roberts explains six reasons Amazon may remove Kindle book reviews. First, the shareable link: the link shared with friends, family and followers should be clean, ending at the book’s ASIN. Second, relationships: Amazon wants unbiased reviews, so relatives and others tied to the author by bank accounts, addresses or the same Amazon account can be flagged as biased, and Dale says Amazon’s vetting will figure it out. Third, review swaps — an author reviewing another’s book in exchange for a reciprocal review — are treated as biased; Dale says he felt this in 2015, when his own Amazon reviewing privileges were revoked over review swapping and, he says, will never be reinstated. Fourth, verbiage: reviews containing obscenities, defamatory comments or harassment can be removed, regardless of what other reviewers appear to get away with. Fifth, relevancy: a review must be about that product, not, for example, slamming a movie on the book’s page. Sixth, report abuse: readers can report a review they find out of line, defamatory or vulgar, and if Amazon finds a violation — especially after multiple reports — it can pull the review down.

Key takeaways

• Share a clean book link ending at the ASIN when asking others to find the book
• Reviews from relatives or people linked by accounts, addresses or bank accounts can be removed as biased
• Review swaps are treated as biased; Dale says his own reviewing privileges were revoked in 2015 and never reinstated
• Obscene, defamatory or harassing wording can get a review removed
• Irrelevant reviews and reviews reported for abuse can also be pulled by Amazon

Episode details: published September 28, 2017 · 4:59 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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