The categories you select on Amazon are critically important for your book to get a possible #1 ranking on Amazon in a particular category. As you can see in the pic above, Get Your Book Seen and Sold: The Essential Book Marketing and Publishing guide hit #1 in the ‘Writing Skill Reference” during its launch week. YOU want to make sure you select the right category to get your book seen and sold! Listen on….
Amazon Changed Its Categories System. Here’s How To Make Sure Your Book Is Seen and Sold with Dave Chesson.
In this podcast interview, Dave Chesson, The Kindlepreneur, specifically addresses the recent change to Amazon categories affecting Amazon KDP users, how it can affect your book’s ranking and what you can do to make sure your book’s sales do not suffer.
I asked Dave about the recent change. Specifically, an author (or publisher) used to be able to select 10 categories to describe their books and find its readers. Today only three categories can be added. As well, because of the program changes that were made, some of the old categories in the system are not attached to anything, meaning that if your book still has that category attached to it, it will not be seen at all under that category. Dave calls these “unseen” categories, ghost categories.
In the podcast, Dave explains what you can do to make sure your book’s categories are viable and how to use keyword phrases (you can still add 7) to bolster your book’s chances of being seen in the correct, competitive categories for your book’s potential buyers.
We chat about Dave’s fabulous publisher rocket software and how it has been updated to help you navigate this most recent Amazon category change. At $97, Publisher Rocket is a bargain and a great tool to help you make sure your book’s placement on Amazon is the best it can be. I also recommend Dave’s online classes on How to Choose Keywords and How to Choose Categories (they are short and sweet) are update to reflected the Amazon category change as well.
If interested, my first interview with Dave can be found at the link.
Personal note: I have been reading, learning, and sharing from Mr Chesson’s Website, Kindlepreneur, for two year now. Dave is very successful in the word of self-publishing and continues to put out and create top notch, worth your time, content and software for all authors whether traditionally published or self-published. The Publisher Rocket link is an affiliate link. I am a proud owner of Publisher Rocket.
Questions about Keywords & Categories Tutorials and Publisher Rocket Software
Feel free to ask me any questions in the comments or at wjcwolk@gmail.com about any of the topics covered or more detail as to why I think Keywords & Categories tutorials and Publisher Rocket Software are valuable resources in your book marketing. Thanks for listening! Please share this one with your fellow authors.
Authors! Critical Change to Amazon Categories