[philvan]

Perhaps this isn't news to anybody but me. Anyway, just went to look at my book page and found the 'tag' function restored.
Did some tweaking, deleted some redundant ones and added some obvious ones I'd missed, and followed a couple of search strings. Found, to my surprise,  that my Sherlock novelette was #1 in a couple of searches.
Maybe more sales will result, or not, but at least it should come up more often in searches.

 

[Bakari]

Amazon has placed the tags back up for Kindle books as far as I can tell. I checked about a dozen different books to be sure.

If this lasts at least we can see if there is a correlation (positive or negative) between tags and sales. (Even though Sunshine Deals and Lady Gaga helped to create the trifecta for a perfect storm of events.)

 

[Mel Comley]

Thanks I'd given up checking them. Mine are back, lets see what happens.

 

[Bakari]

No problem,

I stumbled onto them while looking at another author's work and thought I was hallucinating.

I am not going to get too excited though as I feel like Charlie Brown watching Lucy hold the football for me.

 

[Carol (was Dara)]

Cool. I can't tell that the tags make any difference to my sales but I sorta like seeing them there.

 

[Angela Carlie]

Thanks for letting us know.

 

[Ann in Arlington]

***merged two threads on the same topic***

 

[Val2]

Yes, I just checked mine and they are all back. That's a good thing!

 

[Cheri Schmidt]

Thanks for posting this because I hadn’t noticed yet. I will say I’m pleased to see them back, I’ve missed them. LOL

 

[StephenLivingston]

My tags are back on the US .com site but not yet on the UK .co.uk site.

 

[Val2]

Except that they are not on my UK books yet.

 

[Ann Chambers]

Yay! I just published my first indie book and looked and looked for the tags. Just went to Amazon and added some. Hope they help. Thanks for this thread.

 

[Jon Olson]

Cool. I can't tell that the tags make any difference to my sales but I sorta like seeing them there.

Me too. Amazon works in mysterious ways. For a business in the communication industry, they don't communicate very well.

 

[Michelle Muto]

Wow! So they are! I kind of missed seeing tags in books. Glad they're back. Not only did I sort of miss them for my own book, but for when I wanted to look for other books, too.

 

[Tara Shuler]

Thank goodness! My sales have jumped quite well today.

They've been really slow since the Gaga/Sunshine/Tag kerfuffle.

 

[MH Sargent]

Thank goodness! My sales have jumped quite well today.

They've been really slow since the Gaga/Sunshine/Tag kerfuffle.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[JRTomlin]

My sales DID drop after the tags disappeared. Is that the reason though? Who knows.

I sure don't mind that they're back. 

 

[kCopeseeley]

My sales DID drop after the tags disappeared. Is that the reason though? Who knows.

No one! It is all a big mystery. My sales are definitely not dead, but stagnate. Not too worried, I know these things are cyclical.