Readers who shop or browse on Amazon - do you ever use tags?

I'm going to be honest and admit that yes, I occasionally use the tags. It helps me to discover new authors, particularly ones whose work is not on sale or not heavily promoted in Australia.

My own book is available on amazon as both POD and in eBook format. I've put some tags on there that I felt were relevant to the book and its target audience. See:

http://www.amazon.com/Being-Abigail-Kathryn-White/...

I have no idea whether the tags have helped my sales figures or not, as I tagged the work quite early on. Also, as you have stated, there is no conclusive way to discover how many people have viewed the page - as the author, I can only go by the sales figures.

I think that people who use tags probably are in the minority, but seeing as they take less than a minute to do, its an easy way to promote your work.

Never used tags. I do go onto Amazon fairly frequently, but when I do I usually already know what I am looking for. That and whenever I look something up on Amazon, there is a huge list of stuff including similar items, reviews, discussions, etc. in which the tags kind of get buried and lost. In fact I hadn't even heard of them until you mentioned it now.

By the way, how is it going with your book? Do you get much traffic on the Amazon site?

EDIT: Well, you're selling more than I ever have, at least. Once I get my latest effort cleaned up I think I will try posting it somewhere for sale. But it still needs a lot of work. For now I have a hard time trying to sell something that I wouldn't buy.

I've never even heard of tags.

I shop on Amazon, but I generally know exactly what I'm looking for, so I just type the title into the search bar.

Five sales a week is about what my friend gets for her e-published book. Her book's in a similar genre to yours and her writing is similar quality (this is a compliment, btw).

Nah i dont. When i do shop on amazon i'll just search because i know what im looking for. Oh and thanks for answering my question. I appriciate that an author who has actually had some success selling their book is giving me advice. (Im not being sarcastic im serious)

I don't use tags. Whenever I go to amazon, I know exactly what I'm searching for.

I don't use them. Usually I rate the books that I know that I have or read or bought, then shop along my recommendation list.

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Nah. I usually just rate, you know?

No