A RankTracer product tracking & book promotion widget will never go out of date or need you to refresh it - perfect for promoting and marketing your book with absolutely no effort. You don't even have to have an account to create a widget. In fact, you can create a widget for any product on Amazon (like the one shown below) and configure it with ease. Go to the widget builder page to build one for yourself. It only takes a few seconds...

(click on the graph icon to see a daily graph for this product.)

What's so great about this?

• no registration or email required
• completely free
• takes less than ten seconds to create (sample created in under 4 seconds)
• can be added to any site
• safe & javascript free^*
• always fresh and up-to-date
• Easy to use & configure
• Compact & fast loading

^* Single javascript call to open sales graph (if included in widget).

 

The RankTracer Toolbar provides a number of standard feeds, an Amazon product search and research tool as well as instant access to all Amazon locales and the RankTracer login page. That's not all! It also features live, hourly amazon sales ranks.

Setting up your browser to provide live amazon sales ranks for any product on any locale is easy. Follow these simple steps:

1. Register an account with us if you haven't already done so
2. Select which products you want to track and checkout
3. Download and install the toolbar
4. Add your live RSS feed to the toolbar under the Hourly Sales Ranks heading (your personal feed URL is displayed in your WorkStation)

Now you can enjoy live sales ranks from your browser any time of day without having to visit Amazon or RankTracer:

Why not download the toolbar today and try it out with our live demo feed at http://www.ranktracer.com/rss/hourly_ra_145.xml

 

The Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) is a unique identification number assigned by Amazon and its partners for product identification within the Amazon organization.

Each product sold on Amazon is given a unique ASIN. For books with a 10-digit ISBN, the ASIN and ISBN are the same. Books without an ISBN, and other products, are also assigned ASINs.

RankTracer makes use of ASINs to gather information on Amazon products. For example, when using the Amazon Sales Rank Quick Checker you are required to provide us with an ASIN so that we can go and retrieve the sales rank of that item.

Finding out a product's unique ASIN is easy. Simply visit the product's page on Amazon (if you know the name, type that in on the Amazon homepage) and scroll down to the product details section. The Amazon ASIN will be shown along with other information such as publisher or manufacturer, edition and so on...

 

Anyone who has written a book (or a song, or made a product of some sort) will have taken a moment here and there (and if we're honest, a little more than that) to search their Amazon product page in order to check the latest Amazon sales rank. And why not? After all, if the sales rank has halved overnight then that's a good indication that a few more dollars are winging their way to you right now.

That's all good and well, but there are a whole host of services out there who can track your product's sales rank. Doing this is a good first step, because now you don't have to limit yourself to viewing small snapshots of the rank, you can see its whole history laid out before you in glorious detail. Graphs are quite helpful here - you'll be needing them to make sense of the numbers.

So now you can see how your sales rank changes over time. What else could you possibly want to know? What about how your competitors are faring in comparison? For this you need to be able to track a bunch of products at a time and view them all together in a graph.

Is there anything else it can tell you? Sure, what happens if you do a live radio interview and the next day your sales rank hasn't changed. Or, better yet, someone blogs about your book and immediately your sales rank dips like crazy. In this case the sales rank has told you which event was better at promoting your products. So it's a good marketing intelligence tool.

That's got to be it, doesn't it? Nope, there's more that the sales rank can tell you. In the right hands (i.e. RankTracer's) it can also provide the means to derive accurate sales estimates. Actual sales figures are incredibly powerful because now you can get a good grasp of what the sales rank actually indicates. Combine this with powerful graphing, reports, alerts and all the other goodies that RankTracer provides, and you got yourself a full-featured sales and competitive analysis machine!

At the very least, you should be using RankTracer to keep track of how many extra sales we generate for you...

 

So you've written a book and had it published. Maybe your company has just released a new software package. How about stylish accessories? Whatever you've done, if you are selling something on Amazon then there are a number of reasons to track Amazon sales ranks with RankTracer:

• Keep a record of its historical performance
• Hourly data can give you a responsive, real-time method of tracking changes in sales
• Compare your product with the sales performance of competitors
• Get accurate sales estimates
• View your data in powerful, interactive flash graphs
• Reconcile sales rank changes against marketing initiatives (this can help you to decide which marketing methods have had the greatest impact on Amazon sales)
• Obtain weekly or monthly PDF reports
• Access customer reviews at the click of a button
• Share your product's performance with editors, publishers, colleagues and so on
• Access daily RSS feeds providing graphs and summaries of your product's perfomance
• Track any product on any Amazon locale
• Contribute to and benefit from our marketing and promoting

Look, we can go on and on and on about why you should track your products. The gist of the matter is that you can keep your finger on the pulse, peek at the performance of your competitors and make money doing it!!! Need we say more?

 

Take a look around the net and see what people say about the Amazon sales rank. If you look at a hundred different pages, you'll probably get a hundred and five different opinions (some people disagree with themselves).

There's a lot of confusion out there about the value of the sales rank, but there's a couple of points to be made regardless of how you feel about them:

1. They are a good overall indicator your product's performance
2. They can be used to compare the performance of different products
3. We can give you pretty good sales estimates based on an analysis of your product's sales rank over time

How do we generate our sales estimates? That's our own little secret (and a lot of maths), but you can look at a number of demo graphs and feeds that give you a good indication of how our sales estimates relate to the sales rank history over time.

Take a look at the following couple of links to see exactly what we mean:

• Demo RSS Feed
• Demo Traces (with sales estimates)

Alternatively, look at the demo subscription (This will also allow you to build some powerful flash graphs at the click of a button).

Our system is also designed with flexibility in mind. This means that if you find a discrepancy between your sales figures and our estimates, we can tune the Sales Estimation Engine accordingly...

Maybe you're not interested in your own sales. Why not find out how well your competitors' products & titles are selling?

 

RankTracer provides a hugely powerful platform for tracking and analysing the sales performance of products sold on any Amazon locale. Combining the following great features into one completely unique service:

• Powerful, interactive graphs
• Accurate sales estimates
• PDF reports
• RSS feeds
• Full product sales analytics
• Alerts
• Instant access to reviews and other Amazon info

and much, much more...

These features alone provide far more value than their price tag demands. We don't stop there though, we want to actually earn you money too. We engage in a number of activities in order to achieve this:

• Encourage the development of a community based selling club to create a large number of Points of Sale for our clients
• Write articles that discuss and link directly to your products
• Maintain blogs that discuss and link directly to your products
• Regularly write press releases that help promote your products
• Create Amazon lists and guides recommended your products

and, you guessed it, much much more.

We are also looking into providing a full-featured online marketing package that will be the most efficient and effective promotional plan on the Internet. We've got great ideas and we're still looking for suggestions so don't be shy!

Ultimately, we are generating income for our clients while providing them with a wholly unique and useful service. Using RankTracer is the least you should be doing to give your product every chance at success...

 

By ourselves, we can only do so much! Don't take this the wrong way - we're working hard to build sales for our customers. The fact of the matter is, as a community, we can do so much more together...

If you have a blog, or website, and would like to do your bit to help other trackers sell their products, then you can do one of several things (in order to increase the promotional power of RankTracer for the benefit of all):

1. Copy and paste this link to the RankTracer Amazon store onto your website (this will send potential customers to the store consisting solely of products tracked on RankTracer):

   <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/wwwcontechsco-20">Great Amazon Books & Products</a>

2. Copy and paste this HTML snippet onto a Web page (this will replicate the fully functioning RankTracer store on your site):

   <iframe src="http://astore.amazon.com/wwwcontechsco-20" width="100%" height="940" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

3. Add one or more of our RSS lists to your site - click on the feed icons in the left hand column to see a couple of examples

Adding a link or a store to your site helps bring attention from a wide range of potential customers to the products tracked on RankTracer. This greatly increases your chances of making sales through our online fraternity of Amazon trackers.

C'mon, join the movement...