become a top 500 reviewer on Amazon

I made the top 1000 a couple days ago, was very pleased but I still have a ways to go yet before I reach my goal, just keeping on reviewing.

You know I find it pretty strange looking at my reviews to see how many times people have left feedback that reviews are unhelpful without stating why or what could be different about the review.

Other people seem to be reacting personally or politically, you left me feedback on a splurg of opinion therefore I will go through all your reviews hitting unhelpful on them all, or keywords will set them off instead. The product itself doesnt seem to enter into it much which doesnt seem right.

I presently rank 1,296 and so desperately would like to move further up the ranking, although I appreciate that its likely to be difficult given that I dont generally review games, movies or music which are the most popularly viewed items on Amazon.

On the other hand I try to be as precise and concise as I can reviewing the fiction and non-fiction that I do, generally I think about what is most helpful to me when considering buying books, DVDs, music, other goods and work from there.

Anyone reading this I’d really appreciate if you had the time and took a look, feedback is ALWAYS appreciated, provided its relevent.

There’s been crazy stalkerish posts I’ve asked Amazon to delete because they add nothing to the review and are just destructive or ones which are just silly but I always read them.

This is a long term goal, and I’ve still been slowly progressing forward. I started seriously working at posting more reviews about 2.5 years ago and am now in the 2100s. I started in the 13000s.

I now have 162 reviews posted. I will definitely move forward on this if I post more reviews. So I will work on this goal in 2008 by setting concrete goals to hit a certain number of reviews posted by particular dates, and make a general aspiration to post at least a very brief review of any book I finish and as many DVDs as I can.

I posted about 6 reviews today—I really should do that more often!

I’ve had a lull in posting reviews but have added about 4 or 5 more this month. Trying to get back to it…of course it would help if I were actually reading books and watching movies as much as I’d like…

On the plus side, I did pass the 150 review milestone this week!

It took two years, but I’ve broken into the Top 500 Reviewer status. Now I just have to work to stay at that level.
Good luck to the rest of you with this goal.

Rank: 12,208
Reviews: 37
Helpful Votes: 193

After a one-day bump into the 2400s (okay 2499 is barely there…) I fell back into the 2500s and languished for quite some time. For the last few days I’ve been in the 2400s again, after posting 3 reviews in the last two weeks. Gotta put the stuff out there to move up, I know it! Now I just have to keep doing it…

Keep moving up the ranks, maybe make it to the top 1000 reviewers by this time next year!