Universal links, Amazon.com, booklinker.net, smarturl.it, book promoting, D.G. Kaye

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Sue Vincent

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Authors, are you using universal links for your books? If you’re not using universal links with your books, you’re most likely missing out on having many more potential readers.

What is a universal link?

When selling your books on Amazon.com, and posting the link for that book when promoting, it will take the reader directly to Amazon.com. Now that’s great that you have an interested reader to view your book, but what if they want to purchase it and they don’t live in the U.S.?

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About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue  passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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26 Responses to Universal links, Amazon.com, booklinker.net, smarturl.it, book promoting, D.G. Kaye

  1. sknicholls says:
    February 4, 2016 at 06:33

    Well this is very useful. Brilliant! Thanks for sharing.

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  2. barbtaub says:
    February 4, 2016 at 06:34

    I’ve been using universal links but find they confuse people too. So I’m switching over to the new embed links instead. If you go to your book’s page on the Amazon.com site (must be the U.S. site!) and look at the share links on the right-hand side of the page, you should see one that says “embed”. It gives a choice of URL or embed code. Then when someone clicks on the link in your blog page, it will take them to the correct country page, show a book preview, and offer buy links on their Amazon country page.

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  6. Helen Jones says:
    February 4, 2016 at 11:30

    I’ve been using Booklinker for a while but I might give Barb’s method a go too 🙂

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  7. Mary Smith says:
    February 4, 2016 at 12:33

    I’ve been using Smarturl but will check out Barb’s suggestion, too.

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  8. dgkaye says:
    February 4, 2016 at 16:43

    Thanks for sharing this Sue. And thanks to Barb for mentioning that ’embed’ code from the Amazon page. The only thing I might be leery of by using Amazon’s embed link, is that it is ‘their’ link. This again could potentially be part of the tracking system Amazon uses when authors review books of others and have their reviews deleted because ‘they are connected’ with the reviewer. Just some food for thought. That’s why I prefer to stay away from using Amazon’s links. 🙂

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