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Cleaning Up Your Amazon Links

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Getting your Amazon link is fairly simple. Enter your book title in the search bar and click on your book. That will give you a link like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Petras-Mission-Pieyu-Adventures/dp/168187072X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485026526&sr=1-1&keywords=sir+princess+petra%27s+mission

The problem with these super links on Amazon is that everything that follows the dp/168187072X and especially after the qid is Amazon’s way of keeping track of the time you searched this book.

So, if you are sharing this long link to friends, family, or promotional pages and those people link in to that link, it show Amazon that a number of people searched the book at the exact same time, which is probably not the case.

If someone who linked into this long link ends up writing a review, Amazon raises it hackles (even if the person bought the book) and thinks that person is probably a family member or a friend because most people share the long link with them. Amazon has been getting very sticky about friends and family members writing reviews, and they may take down the review even if the review wasn’t written by a family member or friend and it is a legit review.

Here’s a tip to clean up the link. Just remove everything after the dp/168187072X so your link looks like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Petras-Mission-Pieyu-Adventures/dp/168187072X

or shorten the link more by taking out the book name like this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/168187072X

You can also click on the email icon (to the right of your book) and it will give you an even shorter link http://a.co/ec7Tovw  I’m not a fan of this super-short link because it doesn’t say enough about where the links leads and it may be taken as spam.

Note: There are many articles online that recommend the use of super links and how these longer links help your Amazon rankings. A word of caution here; the longer links can possibly work to help your rankings, but only if you remove the qid part and the symbols/numbers attached to the ref part of the link. And recently, Amazon has caught on to people using this kind of revised-super link and they don’t necessarily like it, and that could mean trouble down the road.

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Easy Grammar Lesson Lay/Lie From The Dragon Grammar Book

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The Dragon Grammar Book –  Grammar for Kids, Dragons, and the Whole Kingdom

Finally! An easy-to-understand grammar book with a sense of humor. From multi-award winning children’s fantasy author, Diane Mae Robinson, The Dragon Grammar Book, featuring the characters of The Pen Pieyu Adventures series, introduces beginners to the basic rules of the English language.  For middle grades to adults, The Dragon Grammar Book is an entertaining adventure into the mysterious Land of Grammar.  Releasing 2017

Excerpt from The Dragon Grammar Book copyright 2016 Diane Mae Robinson

Lay vs. lie

To use these confusing verbs properly, there are six verb tenses you need to remember in their order.

Lie, lay, lain

Lay, laid, laid

And lay has two different meanings.

Lie, lay, lain:

To use the verb lie, think of your bed or cave. Lie is something you do to yourself—you lie down.

I lie down beside the dragon.

Yesterday, I lay down beside the dragon.

I have lain down beside the dragon every day this month, and that’s why my eyebrows are scorched.

The dragon is lying in his cave now.

For two days, he lay in the creek.

He had lain in the mud for three days in a row before that.

Lay, laid, laid:

Lay is something someone does to something else. (This verb takes a direct object. Lie never does.) Think of lay and think of a place.

The dragon lay the book on the bookshelf.

The witch laid the book on the bookshelf yesterday.

The magician has laid the book on the bookshelf every day this month.

Lay the scrolls over there.

The councilman laid the scrolls where I told him to.

Yesterday, he had laid the scrolls too close to the dragon.

Endorsements

When Sir Princess Petra clobbers Snarls with a book, she uses the only book that can help her fire-breathing dragon-steed: The Dragon Grammar Book. This amazing book uses kid-friendly sentences, humorous illustrations, and easy-to understand examples. The Dragon Grammar Book is a fun tool that will help your middle-grade dragons better understand the basic rules of writing—and reading.  —Sue Morris, Kid Lit Reviews

In her latest offering, Diane M. Robinson takes on a challenge greater than any of the obstacles which Sir Princess Petra has yet faced: how to make the arcane rules of English grammar interesting and accessible to a wider audience. While many kids and adults would rather face a fully-grown ogre than the laws of punctuation, The Dragon Grammar Book provides a clear and comprehensive look at our language for princesses and dragons alike. With clear examples and fun activities, this book is a must-have for readers and aspiring writers. —Peter Takach, High School English Teacher and Grammarian

The Dragon Grammar Book takes some of the basic rules of writing and makes them more approachable with a dash of creative fun courtesy of The Pen Pieyu all-stars. So whether you’re a sword wielding princess, an onion loving dragon, or an everyday Jane/Joe, you’ll walk away with a clearer understanding of the English language and be ready to tackle sentence structure and word usage with the best of them.  —Gina Reba, Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers

Unbeatable winning combination . . . Sir Princess Petra faces her fears of the menacing fire-breathing dragon and conquers the pitfalls of grammar! Clever, painless, and fun way to learn, implement and test yourself in the English language. —Barbara Ann Mojica, Author of the Little Miss HISTORY children’s nonfiction book series, http://LittleMissHISTORY.com

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