Self-Publishing with KDP: Categories & Keywords Research

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  • Self-Publishing with Kindle Direct Pubplishing: Categories & Keywords Research // Last year I did a step by step tutorial on how to upload your book to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. In that video I promised to do a full video tutorial on how to research categories and keywords for your book when self-publishing. Today I wanted to finally give you that tutorial and show you what I do to research categories and keywords for my books when I upload them to self-publish on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
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  • @MandiLynnWrites
    @MandiLynnWrites  ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Try out Publisher Rocket to do keyword and category research when you're self-publishing your book on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing: bit.ly/3AadWPI

    • @philipstrumolo8057
      @philipstrumolo8057 ปีที่แล้ว

      Key words in the book blurb...awesome! Publisher Rocker looks really helpful.
      Thanks!
      Gerard Dneza
      Author of the Edward Mendez, P. I. series

  • @lawrencemorgan3299
    @lawrencemorgan3299 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you did a great explanation. Thank You!

  • @JoMcRell
    @JoMcRell 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good tips, Mandi! Helped me decide if Publisher Rocket was worth it for me. Thanks!

  • @johnshelton7525
    @johnshelton7525 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Unlike some of your competitors U are just the right mix of excitement for your graft plus solid information

  • @mhappleton765
    @mhappleton765 ปีที่แล้ว

    Once again you have proven super helpful. You are god send for the rest of us.

  • @jenlowry
    @jenlowry 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for sharing! I just bought KDP Rocket, and this has been very helpful!

  • @philipstrumolo8057
    @philipstrumolo8057 ปีที่แล้ว

    Key words in the book blurb. Great idea. And Publisher Rocket look totally cool.
    Thanks,
    Gerard Denca
    Author of the Edward Mendez, P. I. series

  • @anupampandey1652
    @anupampandey1652 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice and quite informative. Mt two books published on Amazon.
    1. Frugality: Being Mindful of Your Expenses.
    2. Nanu's stories for Amaaya
    Happy Reading!

  • @bookpassion
    @bookpassion ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, thank you for the in-depth view of Publisher Rocket, very helpful!

  • @glenrockymeyers4136
    @glenrockymeyers4136 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good Informative research, Mandi! I am about to publish six books at the same time, over 3,300 pages and 1.3 million words. Suffice it to say I have been working for years on this project. Thanks.

  • @faerierosepress4133
    @faerierosepress4133 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you, Mandi! This was super helpful.

  • @essambehslines6323
    @essambehslines6323 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was more than helpful. Thanks alot appreciate ❤❤

  • @shawneebarnes4009
    @shawneebarnes4009 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your channel. It has been very helpful. I would like a video on copyrights. Thanks.

  • @mlbullbooks
    @mlbullbooks ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good tutorial about how to use this software. :) I've heard about it and intend to get it myself.

  • @antoniodossantos5960
    @antoniodossantos5960 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Mandy 🌎

  • @JoseCarrillo-es7kl
    @JoseCarrillo-es7kl หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great info, Mandi. I have seen many videos on Keywords, most dealing with low content where you are trying to find a good opportunity to compete.
    But what if you don't have Publisher Rocket?
    So, regarding novels, Keywords with a low search number and good BSR could have many great reviews, 1000s, which would make it harder to compete.
    Does the rule of having a low number of reviews apply that much to novels?
    Say your Keywords have a search number of 61, 13 books on the first page with a < 100k BSR, but with 4 books over 10K reviews, 3 from 3K to 5K, and 6 under 1K.
    My question is: Does the number of reviews matter that much for novels? After all, you are not trying to find a new niche to compete in; you are competing against the best in the Novel business.
    Your thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated!
    After watching your video, it makes sense to get Publisher Rocket once I can afford it.
    Thank you very much!!!
    Jose

  • @philipstrumolo8057
    @philipstrumolo8057 ปีที่แล้ว

    Key words in the book blurb...awesome! Publisher Rocker looks awesome and quite helpful.
    Thanks!
    Gerard Denza
    Author of the Edward Mendez, P. I. series.

  • @MyDesignDoctor
    @MyDesignDoctor ปีที่แล้ว

    Well detailed. Thank you

  • @supernaturalwriter
    @supernaturalwriter ปีที่แล้ว

    This is so helpful. I hadn't even considered keyword searches for my title. My old title would have brought up history books along with it >_

    • @MandiLynnWrites
      @MandiLynnWrites  ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly! That's why doing the little extra research can be a game changer for how your book shows up on Amazon!

  • @2dogbull
    @2dogbull 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you, Mandi. for your video presentation. My 12 eBooks are not represented in the 3 categories. I am a master's level rehabilitation counselor. My eBooks focus on empowering and enhancing the lives of individuals living with the impact of brain injuries. The only category representative of what speak about is Self-help, but not really? What can I do about this to get a more representative of the information that I write about MK? Thank you for your help. Have a super day. Craig

  • @AkmaAit
    @AkmaAit 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You mean it is possible to renew the categories and keywords after the book was published? Thanks!!!

  • @destresswithyoga
    @destresswithyoga ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤. Great stuff!

  • @akashsarkarbd
    @akashsarkarbd ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello sir I saw your youtube channel and understand you are a TH-camr. Very nice video on your channel, I really enjoyed it. Total 27600+ subscribers and a Total of 200+ Upload videos of your channel. But I noticed one thing your channel has no subscribers and no video views. You need to optimize your channel and do video SEO to reach your target audience. Otherwise, if you upload videos to your channel throughout the year, none of your videos will get viral views. If your channel is optimized a little and if the videos are SEO then your channel will rank very fast and your channel will grow.

  • @lindaraedisch4195
    @lindaraedisch4195 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I'm shopping for a particular title on amazon, a lot of books that AREN'T that book, but might be similar, pop up. Does this mean that we can use the titles of other books as keywords, or is that considered misleading? (Love your channel! I'm throwing myself into self publishing as hard as I used to throw myself into querying, and your videos are a huge help!)

    • @MandiLynnWrites
      @MandiLynnWrites  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Those books that you see are sponsored ads, so authors pay to have their book placed at the top of search for particular terms.
      I wouldn't use titles of other books as keywords, as I think you may get in trouble from Amazon for that. You can however use titles of other books when you're doing paid ads on Amazon.

    • @lindaraedisch4195
      @lindaraedisch4195 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MandiLynnWrites Okay, thanks!

  • @dragonbleu17
    @dragonbleu17 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

  • @nikkik2648
    @nikkik2648 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey Mandi, just curious if your keywords and categories for ebook paperback and hardback have to be the same or if you can make them different to see which performs better?

    • @MandiLynnWrites
      @MandiLynnWrites  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They can sometimes be similar, but I always choose based on data that I find in Publisher Rocket

  • @knowthesystem202
    @knowthesystem202 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I noticed that Amazon does not seem to like "Kindle Unlimited" in its keywords. (You had that in your examples.) Do you still use that?

  • @WinnieLavery
    @WinnieLavery 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    do you upload the keywords before you upload the entire book to kdp?

  • @The_Open_Book
    @The_Open_Book ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm considering getting this (and I'll use your affiliate link) but do you know if they ever have sales? Like, Black Friday 20% off or something? I'd appreciate it if you let me know (if you know lol) if they ever do, I'd like to wait and save what little money I can

    • @MandiLynnWrites
      @MandiLynnWrites  ปีที่แล้ว

      I think last year there was a Black Friday sale, but I think that's usually the only time it's on sale from what I can remember.

  • @melikasha
    @melikasha 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Does a poetry book should have keywords?

    • @MandiLynnWrites
      @MandiLynnWrites  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'd recommend keywords for any book

  • @johnmacgregor324
    @johnmacgregor324 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's not at all clear to me why you'd want categories where it's easier to hit #1 when, the easier it is to reach #1, the less sales there are. Isn't there a trade-off?

  • @stevecerretani
    @stevecerretani ปีที่แล้ว

    Not helpful When I save my Word document (manuscript) as a pdf, the format gets all messed up. Why?

    • @MandiLynnWrites
      @MandiLynnWrites  ปีที่แล้ว

      Well this is a video on finding keywords and categories for your book. If you want to learn about formatting watch one of the many videos on my TH-cam channel

    • @nikkik2648
      @nikkik2648 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@MandiLynnWritesyou probably have to embed the fonts