How-to guides

Practical guides for catalog discoverability.

Tools, guides and proven strategies for getting products found – from retail listing optimization to algorithm mechanics to creative production.

Amazon listing optimization guide
Guide — Retail optimization

How to optimize an Amazon book listing for discoverability and conversion

A step-by-step walkthrough of the five areas that decide whether Amazon traffic converts: description structure and keyword placement, A+ content, review strategy, category selection, and the fine tuning most listings never reach. Written by Shimmr’s Chief Product Officer for publishers running paid traffic who need the destination page to close the sale.

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Cross-platform book sales guide
Guide — Multi-channel retail

How to drive book sales across every retailer, not just Amazon

Readers buy where they already shop. This guide covers the retailers Shimmr sends traffic to in the US and UK, the typical sales split between them, how to optimize each product page to convert, and where to find the sales data on each platform so you can measure what your advertising is actually doing.

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Amazon A10 algorithm guide
Guide — Algorithms

How to master Amazon’s A10 algorithm and hold your rankings

What changed between A9 and A10, which signals the algorithm now weights most heavily, and the practical levers a publisher can pull to improve ranking, drive sales and stay ahead of competing titles in the same category.

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Generating book ads with MidJourney
Guide — Creative production

How to generate eye-catching book ads with MidJourney

A step-by-step prompt walkthrough for producing advertising imagery that is faithful to a book’s tone rather than generically pretty – covering prompt structure, style control, iteration, and the checks that keep generated creative honest to the work.

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AI social strategies for book launches
Guide — Social strategy

How to use AI to build social strategies across multiple simultaneous launches

Marketing teams rarely launch one title at a time. This guide shows how to use AI platforms to plan and produce social strategy across a slate of concurrent launches without the plan collapsing into one generic template applied to everything.

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