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Originally Posted by DaringNovelist
And the sane people started comparing notes... and found that the articles under attack tended to start making more money afterward. All the activity aimed at them was making the article look more popular to the search engines. It was actually HELPING the article and the author.
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Yes. It was interesting to see in the Smashwords site update the other day a vague explanation of how Diesel ebooks calculates its sales ratings.
"Multiple factors can influence your sales rank there, including (of course) sales or lack thereof, page views, search engine searches, the number of titles in their catalog, and the books above you that are selling."
Unlike Barnes and Noble or Amazon, you can have a high sales ranking at Diesel without even selling a book.