I Forgot to Blog Yesterday! :O Here's Why.
I missed yesterday's daily blog, but I have a very good reason. I just had my mind blown clear away.
I've written two novels and one novella which I've all released on Amazon, and I've been with Amazon since 2012, but I only just recently was explained how a feature of Amazon works in a way I understand and that is what's blown my mind.
Amazon is really like a search engine, and it should be treated as such. I've heard it a million times, and I've read about choosing keywords for my books for users to be able to find it, but I've never really been shown it in a way that made sense. I've always put in very broad keywords relating to specific categories so that I would be placed in that category because I always thought that was how it worked, but that's not it at all.
The keywords do point to specific categories, but they are also used when someone is searching for a book or a type of book. So, for instance, I had a keyword of Caribbean, because my book is set in the Caribbean. This is the way to go right? Wrong. When someone searches for Caribbean, they see over 11 thousand results, which means that they would never find my book because it's buried under so many other Caribbean vacation books. What I needed to do was expand Caribbean to something more relevant to my book that had low results, but was still popular enough that people would find it, meaning that books in that search phrase sell well.
I managed to find a keyword that had an average monthly revenue of $1400 for the top 20 results and only 725 books showed up in the results. That means when someone searches for that key phrase I'm competing with only 725 books instead of over 11 thousand.
Much more manageable.
I was so blown away by this it was insane. It was like a moment of clarity for me, as I had read things about keywords before, and everyone was explaining the same thing, but in a very confusing way which I never understood.
Another thing that helped was a program called KindleSpy, or KDSpy. It takes all the data of the keyword phrase you're searching and gives it to you immediately, instead of you having to manually go in and check each book yourself to see if it sells will in that search term.
I've had KDSpy for a week now, but it wasn't until someone explained how amazon worked that I was able to use it effectively. I'm an affiliate with KDSpy now because it's such a great product. What that means is that if you use the link I'm providing you'll get a discount but if you purchase it I'll also get a small commission.
I wouldn't promote a product I wouldn't use myself, and I was debating whether to do so until yesterday because I finally used it properly and recognized it's true potential. It also has a money back guarantee, so no need to be shy about trying it out at least.
If you're an author with Amazon, you owe it to yourself to try out KDSpy here: http://jvz1.com/c/414145/111047
I've written two novels and one novella which I've all released on Amazon, and I've been with Amazon since 2012, but I only just recently was explained how a feature of Amazon works in a way I understand and that is what's blown my mind.
Amazon is really like a search engine, and it should be treated as such. I've heard it a million times, and I've read about choosing keywords for my books for users to be able to find it, but I've never really been shown it in a way that made sense. I've always put in very broad keywords relating to specific categories so that I would be placed in that category because I always thought that was how it worked, but that's not it at all.
The keywords do point to specific categories, but they are also used when someone is searching for a book or a type of book. So, for instance, I had a keyword of Caribbean, because my book is set in the Caribbean. This is the way to go right? Wrong. When someone searches for Caribbean, they see over 11 thousand results, which means that they would never find my book because it's buried under so many other Caribbean vacation books. What I needed to do was expand Caribbean to something more relevant to my book that had low results, but was still popular enough that people would find it, meaning that books in that search phrase sell well.
I managed to find a keyword that had an average monthly revenue of $1400 for the top 20 results and only 725 books showed up in the results. That means when someone searches for that key phrase I'm competing with only 725 books instead of over 11 thousand.
Much more manageable.
I was so blown away by this it was insane. It was like a moment of clarity for me, as I had read things about keywords before, and everyone was explaining the same thing, but in a very confusing way which I never understood.
Another thing that helped was a program called KindleSpy, or KDSpy. It takes all the data of the keyword phrase you're searching and gives it to you immediately, instead of you having to manually go in and check each book yourself to see if it sells will in that search term.
I've had KDSpy for a week now, but it wasn't until someone explained how amazon worked that I was able to use it effectively. I'm an affiliate with KDSpy now because it's such a great product. What that means is that if you use the link I'm providing you'll get a discount but if you purchase it I'll also get a small commission.
I wouldn't promote a product I wouldn't use myself, and I was debating whether to do so until yesterday because I finally used it properly and recognized it's true potential. It also has a money back guarantee, so no need to be shy about trying it out at least.
If you're an author with Amazon, you owe it to yourself to try out KDSpy here: http://jvz1.com/c/414145/111047
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