CHOOSING THE RIGHT KEYWORDS
These are the search terms that direct potential readers to your book, and although they're not as visible as Amazon's classifications, they're equally important.
When you self-publish your book you can provide seven keywords (Note: each can be a single word or a phrase). Choose carefully. Remember there are literally millions of books available on Amazon. The more direct the path to yours, the better!)
As with categories, keywords can be changed at any time, so if you're not satisfied with your initial choices, you can make a new selection. I do this frequently, in the hope of bringing my own books to the attention of new readers.
Below are some of my current choices for CABBAGE BOY, which is a humorous fantasy novel for teenagers.
Family life - Obsessive compulsive disorder
Teenage sex - Allotments - Line dancing
Mutants - DNA
It's likely I'm still not on the best track, but I'm hoping that in a roundabout way these keywords might attract readers from the outer circle, ie parents. My thinking is as follows: allotments, line dancing, DNA and obsessive compulsive disorder are subjects that their parents might be investigating. Hopefully, they'll discover my book (either directly on Amazon books or through Google) and perhaps buy to read themselves and then pass on to their offspring. Pipe dreams perhaps?
Choosing keywords (and categories - see Part One) is time consuming and tedious, but necessary and helpful when you're in competition with so many other books (4.5 million last time I checked!)
NEXT TIME: PART THREE - THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR BOOK COVER
These are the search terms that direct potential readers to your book, and although they're not as visible as Amazon's classifications, they're equally important.
When you self-publish your book you can provide seven keywords (Note: each can be a single word or a phrase). Choose carefully. Remember there are literally millions of books available on Amazon. The more direct the path to yours, the better!)
As with categories, keywords can be changed at any time, so if you're not satisfied with your initial choices, you can make a new selection. I do this frequently, in the hope of bringing my own books to the attention of new readers.
Below are some of my current choices for CABBAGE BOY, which is a humorous fantasy novel for teenagers.
Family life - Obsessive compulsive disorder
Teenage sex - Allotments - Line dancing
Mutants - DNA
It's likely I'm still not on the best track, but I'm hoping that in a roundabout way these keywords might attract readers from the outer circle, ie parents. My thinking is as follows: allotments, line dancing, DNA and obsessive compulsive disorder are subjects that their parents might be investigating. Hopefully, they'll discover my book (either directly on Amazon books or through Google) and perhaps buy to read themselves and then pass on to their offspring. Pipe dreams perhaps?
Choosing keywords (and categories - see Part One) is time consuming and tedious, but necessary and helpful when you're in competition with so many other books (4.5 million last time I checked!)
NEXT TIME: PART THREE - THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR BOOK COVER
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