Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just getting started in the author world, obtaining reviews is often a top priority for increasing your book sales on Amazon. Reviews are a key, essential piece of the success puzzle – but can you safely work with more than one review service at a time to quickly add new reviews to your book?
In short, if each platform follows Amazon’s review guidelines to a T and you write detailed, high-quality reviews that add value and demonstrate a clear understanding of the book, without violating any of Amazon’s thirteen community guideline policies that relate to book reviews, and intentionally space out your review rate for other author’s then it’s possible but risky.
While we understand the desire to quickly increase the number of reviews for your books and review as many books as possible, using multiple review services simultaneously, especially when focusing on free review opportunities, can actually lead to some severe penalties from Amazon that don’t make the reward worth the risk.
Here’s a breakdown of why we strongly advise against using other review services alongside GetBooksReviewed.com:
Amazon Flags Too Many Reviews, Too Fast
Amazon keeps a close eye on reviewer activity. If their system detects a sudden surge in the number of reviews you’re posting, particularly if those books haven’t been purchased through Amazon, it can raise a red flag. This can lead to your account being penalized, potentially with your reviews being removed or even your reviewing privileges being suspended.
GetBooksReviewed.com has built-in safeguards to prevent this. Our system limits the number of review opportunities you can participate in within a given timeframe, ensuring your activity stays within a safe and reasonable range that is less likely to trigger Amazon’s scrutiny. When you introduce external review services into the mix, you bypass these protections and significantly increase your risk of being flagged by Amazon.
Accidental Review Swapping: A Violation of Amazon’s Community Guidelines
Another critical issue lies in adhering to Amazon’s Community Guidelines, specifically the rule against directly swapping reviews. Our system is designed to help you comply with this by ensuring you aren’t paired with someone who has already reviewed any of your books. We have an anti-review swapping algorithm that protects you from this potentially devastating policy violation.
However, when you utilize services outside of GetBooksReviewed.com, we lose that visibility. We have no way of knowing which books you’ve reviewed through other platforms or which authors you’ve engaged with elsewhere. This creates a significant risk of you inadvertently reviewing a second or even third book from an author who has already reviewed your book(s) on another service, as many authors use pen names, making this difficult to track unless you stay on our platform. Swapping reviews can be interpreted by Amazon as coordinated or incentivized reviewing, which is a direct violation of their policies and can have serious consequences for your account.
Our Policy: Protecting Our Community
While it might be technically possible to juggle multiple review services if you are extremely careful about the volume of reviews and meticulously track every single book and author you’ve reviewed across all platforms (including pen names!), the reality is that this level of vigilance is difficult for most people to maintain consistently.
Because the potential risks to your Amazon account are so significant and largely outside of our control when external book review club services are involved, it is against our policies for members to actively participate in competing book review services while being a part of GetBooksReviewed.com.
Our Commitment to You
Our goal at GetBooksReviewed.com is to provide a safe, reliable, and effective platform for connecting readers and authors. Our system is designed with Amazon’s guidelines in mind to protect our members and ensure the integrity of the review process.
By focusing your review efforts within our network, you can do so confidently, knowing that we have measures in place to help you stay within Amazon’s good graces.
If you have not already done so, please sign up for a free trial of our service, knowing you’re joining a community of like-minded authors who value staying compliant with Amazon’s Community Guidelines.
