#PublishingReinvented 133 - An AI Warning + A Relevancy Score Warning
AI For Writers - Don’t Get Fooled
You can now get AI bots to write blog posts, crude stories and marketing plans.
Be warned however, there are a variety of online services which can identify AI written pieces. Google is also believed to be already putting AI written blog posts lower on search results.
It is likely that Amazon is also able to identify books written by AI and it may in the future require authors to say if AI has written a book. This may impact #rank on Amazon and have other implications.
You have been warned. Read more about how AI can help you as an author, without actually writing your book here.
After experimenting with AI blog posts I can also sense when something is written by AI. It has a strange staccato style, which you will also soon identify.
Your Relevancy Score Warning
Anyone who plans to use Amazon ads to help sell their book should be aware that the A9 Amazon algorithm assigns a relevancy score to your book. This means that it decides if a thriller is appropriate or relevant for people searching for thrillers, and if a cook book is relevant for people searching for cook books. And so on for other genres.
Obvious, right.
But what if your thriller has many of its early purchases from people who usually buy gardening books or romance titles?
The A9 algorithm will then not rate this thriller as highly relevant for thriller readers.
It won’t be clear to the algorithm what audience to show this book to.
Previous order history counts when you are advertising on Amazon.
Your categories will also influence your relevancy score, so please only use categories that are true to your book.
How else can you help your relevancy score?
Don’t spread the word among friends and family who rarely read your genre when you launch your book. Use a targeted email list, yours, ours, another, to focus early sales on people who read your genre.
This will help your long term success with Amazon ads. Friends and family sales won’t.
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