Amazon offers 7 boxes where authors can enter target kindle keywords. In each box, you can use up to 50 characters. Should you? We experimen
Most self-publishers know that the keywords you choose play an important role when it comes to showing up for certain searches. However, knowing what to do with keywords can get complicated.
Amazon presents us with seven boxes in which we can enter our desired target Kindle keywords. In each box, we can use up to 50 characters, which allows us to either put in a particular target phrase we want to rank for or fill up the box to include as many phrases as possible.
Some book marketing gurus argue that you should use up as many of the available characters as possible, while others believe you should only enter a target phrase. This conflicting advice has left lots of authors scratching their heads, wondering how to actually approach their Kindle keywords.
Well, in this article, I’m going to use data we gained from experimentation to provide the most optimal way to fill in your seven Kindle keywords.
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Table of contents
What are the 7 Kindle Keyword Boxes?
Terminology For This Article
The Experiment with Kindle Keywords
So, Here is What Authors Should Do
Step 1 : Find 1-3 Keyword Specific Phrases
Step 2 : Find 1-2 to Target Specific Categories
Step 3 : For the Rest, Fill in With Niche Specific Terms and Phrases
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One of the things I get asked about from time to time is my decision to publish on Amazon Kindle.
I get it, Amazon is the Bad Guys (and honestly, I don’t disagree with you), but they did streamline the process in a lot of ways that make self-publishing on Amazon very easy.
My decision to self-publish actually started last year before NaNoWriMo. I had a job that I didn’t feel great about the longevity of, and I also live in a pretty stressful situation that I don’t make enough to move out of. My job was quiet, though, and I was able to listen to podcasts during the day. I started to devour so many writing podcasts - DIYMFA, I Wish I’d Know, Author Like a Boss, Spa Girls, Indie Fully Booked and so many others that I can’t even remember all of them. Just day after day, doing my little data entry, and listening to pods. I’d already been writing fanfic and listening to people who decided to take their publishing future into their own hands and really commit to writing their original stories was very inspiring.
I will say, some of what I listened to was very reminiscent of Multi-Level Marketing jargon.
Do I think some people make a ton of money on Amazon? Yes. But I have my doubts about some of the advice floating around on social media and through these podcasts about the real money that can be (or can’t be) made on Amazon.
I also feel like some of the speakers can be a little bit... elitist? Classist? But that might be a different post kind of subject.
What I DID take away, around Christmas or January of last year, was that some of these books that were being published were actually quite short. I don’t know if other autistic people struggle with this, but I know I need ‘permission’ or an example of how something is done before I realize I could have been doing it that way the whole time. Sometimes, my brain commits to rules that aren’t necessarily true. For instance, I thought all books had to be long - they had to be like, at least 50,000 to 150,000 words. This always felt like an insurmountable obstacle to me because I typically can’t stay committed to a story longer than like, 20k. I’m ready for a new part to the adventure by the time I get to that word count.
But a lot of these indie published authors were talking about rabid releasing, writing very short books, and managing to make content every few weeks. Because of this, they were saying it was possible to start making a steady income relatively quickly by cementing your work in the Amazon algorithms.
I didn’t think it was possible. So, using my small town romance project from last year’s NaNo, I decided to test myself. I’m a fairly quick writer and I’d been writing fanfic for a while, so I knew I could bust out a pretty okay romance story within a short time frame. I built a little world based on my town/the towns I tend to hang around in and I created four books (plus a bonus story for Christmas) set in these towns. I would release one 15,000 word ‘book’ each month from August to December and see what happened. Each book had 7 chapters, had call backs to characters that you knew from previous books so you felt like you were checking in on old friends, and the stories themselves could only take place over the period of a few days - or, in the case of Falling for Apple, a few weeks.
I started writing in March and worked all the way through until I started releasing them in August. In that time, I changed jobs to someplace I had less free time for writing, and I’ve done a few plays. I’ve also traveled out of town, continued documenting the process on my YouTube channel, and dealt with a very sick relative/family drama. I feel really, really good about what we’ve accomplished.
I am also burnt out as F_CK.
All in all, if you don’t count my $12.00 a month subscription to PicMonkey, which I use to make my covers but I had already because of my history with blogging/making Insta content, I’ve spent about $25 on advertising. I’ve done a few boosted posts through Instagram and the rest has been talking about the books on my channel or on my Instagram/Facebook/Tiktok accounts. I was trying to use this method of mostly relying on the Amazon algorithms to do the work for me- that was directly out of one of the podcasts.
I have made about $100.
That’s it. That will not help me move out of my home and it is not the second income I was hoping it would be. HOWEVER, this is a marathon, not a sprint, and I’m very much due for a water break.
Here is what I’ve learned throughout this process:
* Amazon makes it easy because they give you free ISBNs for your Kindle e-books. ISBN numbers can be Very Expensive, so this is a nice bit of accessibility for those of us living below the poverty line.
* Amazon also has Kindle Create which basically formats your book for you/helps you format your books, so that’s pretty accessible as well.
* Amazon also pays you for page reads. So, yes, your book is free in Kindle Unlimited but you get paid per page read and that’s really nice.
If you have more asks about this process, please let me know because I do think knowledge should be shared and not kept where others (who don’t have the income) can reach it.
EBOOK DISPONÍVEL NA AMAZON- ASAS GÊMEAS por J.F Trega
Asas Gêmeas é uma leitura rápida mas com um poder devastador em suas palavras. Um olhar sensível sob o medo, as inseguranças e diferenças sob quem somos e nosso propósito. Uma jornada emocionante sobre amor, aceitação e autodescoberta, sob a ótica de um pequeno inseto, tão cativante e consciente de si, que é impossível não se afeiçoar. Cirillo, um jovem gafanhoto em uma jornada eminente, ao lado de sua amada, enquanto tentam encontrar um lugar seguro em meio ao caos. Este livro nos mostra que amor nem sempre é onde, mas as vezes quem. E com um controle absurdo sobre as palavras, o autor nos transporta em um conto poderoso e transformador. Vale cada segundo investido!
with no budget, this is the only promo i will be able to do: one quote and one memory from each poem — #1
this is a little scribble that i shamelessly call a poem that was written during my literary criticism class, i remember too well that we were reading virginia woolf and suddenly i had this idea of a lover whom i loved with such a passion that it only allowed me to write five or six lines because it was that simple of a feeling.
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