Thanks!

It means they are using an Amazon Associate link.

Hey Joe, great question and I actually created a whole article on just that and my thoughts to each part: https://kindlepreneur.com/amazon-super-url/

Great article. Very helpful.

Also, love using KDP Rocket. Outstanding product.

I have a question very relevant to this article. I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask it, but I’ll do it anyway, and if this isn’t the correct place, I’ll trust that you will direct me to the right place for this discussion.

About two years ago I was reading some information from an experienced Kindle publisher and marketer about how to configure the links to your ebook (e.g., from your website, from within another ebook, from within emails, etc). His recommendation was that you configure the URL of the link so that it is a search request to be conducted on Amazon AND that you configure that URL search request to include only two search parameters: 1.) one keyword (that you want to rank for); and 2). your ebook’s ASIN.

Thus, the search would return an Amazon SERP with ONLY ONE result – your ebook with it’s title linking to the book’s product page AND a “Buy Now” button at the top of the SERP next to the book cover. This person indicated that from his and others research, that Amazon gives some significant Amazon SEO juice to a book and it’s ranking for a keyword when it ends up in a SERP – for example, if a customer searched for a keyword and parts of the title of your book. If your book is “searched for” along with a keyword AND ends up at or near the TOP of the SERP, that is good SEO juice. Using this strategy, your book would be the ONLY book on this SERP – thus giving your book some good SEO juice.

Here’s a current link (I tested it today) example of a browser search query that demonstrates this concept. The keyword is “mystery” and the ASIN number that I tested was for Dan Brown’s book, “The DaVinci Code”.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=mystery%2C%20%5BDAVINCI CODE ASIN WAS HERE]

When this link was entered directly into my Chrome browser search bar, it returns an Amazon SERP with the only book on the SERP being The DaVinci Code. I.e., the link worked as intended.

Given that this information was put forward a couple of years ago, and given that things change a lot with Amazon, and given that I think you are more on top of the current Amazon Kindle SEO stuff than anyone else I have seen as of late, can you comment on this strategy, please.

Is this still viable? Is it a good strategy? Or, has Amazon caught onto this and done something to take away the SEO juice for those types of links – or even worse – has Amazon defined this as a “black-hat” strategy and figured out a way to penalize your book’s rankings for the use of that type of a link.

Your guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Use Chrome
Navigate to the page
Right click and select “Inspect”
Under the HEAD tag, look for ‘link rel=”canonical”‘ and copy the link in that tag.

It will always be the safest possible link, the link that Google would serve you.

Wonderful story, reckoned we could combine several unrelated data, nevertheless seriously really worth taking a search, whoa did one study about Mid East has got far more problerms at the same time.

Thanks

Should be tattletale (more than once), as in it tells a tale by tattling. 🙂

(I’ve also seen it as tattle-tale)