How to Become a Top 500 Reviewer on Amazon

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Reviewing books on Amazon is one way to track your own reading. It also helps others selecting books to read. There's no pay, but it can be addictive to rise through the ranks as a reviewer. Here are ways to achieve Top 500 Reviewer ranking. It took two years for me to reach that level.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

Amazon account
lots of books
love of reading
library card (optional)

Step1

Diligently post reviews on every book you read whether it's good, bad or indifferent. Others need to know about that book. It helps if you're already an avid reader. If you only read 2 or 3 books a month, then it will take much longer to reach the top reviewer ranks.

Step2

If reviewing a best seller, it helps to get the review posted quickly after the book's release date. More readers see the early reviews and vote on its helpfulness. The reviews with the highest number of helpful votes get posted near the top and get more viewings as time goes by.

Step3

Don't limit yourself to just books. Put reviews online for the music CDs you listen to on the way to work. Put a review on for the movie you watched on TV last night.

Step4

Think about reviewing household items as well. What about your camera? How about the lamp on your desk? Amazon carries an amazing range of products and reviews of those products. Electronics and software reviews get a lot of votes.

Step5

It's important to post a quality review. Don't just put a sentence or two. Say why you did or didn't like the book. For fiction, give enough of the plot for readers to know if it's their kind of book but don't spoil the suspense by telling the ending.

Step6

Remove reviews with too many negative votes. The negative votes pull down your ranking. Copy and paste the review into word processing and rework it. Don't give up your opinion, just give more support for it and enhance the review with more details or clarifications. Re-post it on Amazon and it will start fresh getting votes.

Step7

Create some booklists on Amazon. Group items you reviewed by subject and make a listmania list. Listmania lists appear on Amazon when someone searches for a book that's on that list or for a subject relating to the list. The reader often browses the list and visits some of the titles. This gains more viewers for your reviews and more votes.