5 Places I Use Keywords to Get More KDP Book Sales

[@reginahuber]

Thank you! Just in time before publication of my second book - a leadership book.

[@romanafirst]

My first coloring book went live on Amazon KDP today. 🥂One of the last things I did before publication was get your Gumroad coloring book keyword research. I had been watching your YT on making and publishing your dinosaur coloring book on repeat. It took me weeks to fine tune everything but now I have an AI powered workflow and it’s fast. Thanks for the inspiration ❤

[@paulmarles]

You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful and congratulations on publishing your book!

[@nicoarageo]

Honestly so far your channel is the best in this field. You re an excellent teacher . I ve learned a lot from your videos.

[@SisterSherryDoingStuff]

This is extremely helpful. I simply repeat all the keywords in my title and description - then Amazon KDP kicks it back to me to because I've done this. Each time they do, I'm utterly confused about the type of keywords for my book to use. Thank you, Paul.

[@b3rt33]

Just getting started in KDP and really benefitting from your videos thanks Paul. Concentrating on adult coloring books at the moment, and have 12 sales in my first 2 weeks - which to be honest I'm quite pleased about. Hopefully things will build from there. Need to get more methodical on the keyword research, but it's not an enjoyable part of the process!

[@michaelreadnower4424]

Nice how many books do you have published? Were your sales from Amazon or did you market off the platform?

[@AnimeGeekGossip]

😮Wow! Congratulations Fellow Amazonite!

[@b3rt33]

@@michaelreadnower4424 Currently 24 books, although 8 of those were published this weekend, so aren't in the numbers. No promotion off Amazon - but I have been running Ads to them. So far 4 organic and 8 ads sales.

[@b3rt33]

@@AnimeGeekGossip thanks - good luck with your sales!

[@olufunmilayoraji3654]

Congratulations! Highly impressive.

[@nextinstitute7824]

I like your style. Pleasant to watch and glass that you're not pushing sponsored tools! Great channel!

[@rinyaratb]

Hi Paul, Thank you for another great video! My brother and me always rely on your channel for our KDP journey. On putting keywords in subtitles, we find that since 2 weeks ago KDP has become very strict about it. They don't like to see repetitive words in title and subtitle. And by this, i don't mean keyword stuffing. They consider 'journal' and 'notebook' and 'book' are the same thing so we can only use one of those words once. Half of the journals I published got sent back to edit due to this issue. I've also read on a KDP facebook group that someone got an e-mail from KDP saying she has to take 6 of the books she published 4 years ago down for the same problem. Again, always appreciate your videos Paul. Thank you.

[@daddo1600]

I liked tis video before watching a second of it based on the value I have received from previous videos. I put my first coloring book out and bought an author's copy to give to my daughter to see her and my wifes reaction.

[@paulmarles]

Thank you. Congratulations on publishing your coloring book. That's great to hear. I hope they like it.

[@daddo1600]

@@paulmarles just got the book through the door and the quality of some of the picture is very low grade. Is there a prompt or method I need to ensure this doesn’t happen. Some have sharp lines others are blurred

[@shellycarney4041]

I'm so happy I found you Paul your knowledge has really helped me start building a good KDP ,thank you for the teachings.

[@yusranasser2739]

thnx Pual...i have clearly understood the concept of keywords from you....❤

[@mixdifferent8428]

You may design good internal content and an attractive cover and get tired of designing it, as well as the niche, but without good and accurate keywords, it will not reach customers..Thank you for everything you provide. We still need videos about keywords and how to put them in their box, as well as the subtitle... For a long time, we did not have videos about books with little content for beginners in the field..such as a logbook notebook...

[@paulmarles]

You're welcome. Glad you found it useful.

[@olufunmilayoraji3654]

Thank you so much, Paul. I struggle with keywords. Thanks for opening my eyes to this. Hope to make some sales soon.😊😊😊

[@paulmarles]

You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful. 😊

[@mohamadsaleih6287]

Thanks fot it it is so helpful I wrote a book and need to be formatted and help in publshing It is 700+pages and can be divided in 3 books ,it is so meaningfull to humanity And Iam sure you wìll win from it Pls help to show up this book to readers,from your introducing this video show that you are tallent and smart,Iqam sure you will do my book in fantastic way Tell me the cost Or in great way I let you my tradtional publisher and we decide how we share the royalltie stay well Best regards

[@adiadi-qu9cj]

Paul, thank you for sharing helpful knowledge. You translate everything very accurately. Greetings from Poland.👍👍👍👍👍

[@paulmarles]

You're welcome and welcome from Poland!

[@adiadi-qu9cj]

@@paulmarles Hi Paul! Does the order of entering keywords matter?

[@mayaencuisinedz2268]

Hi Paul : two questions please: how much money to advertise a book per month and as soon as we publish a book, do we advertise it directly? thank you for your reply

[@ericvanier9731]

Hello Paul, I don't know if possible to have a video or explanations regarding the relation between KDP categories and keywords. I have a difficulty to understand that relationship ? Thanks in advance and I like your videos.

[@somaansa939]

Thanks Paul for another helpful and useful video!

[@paulmarles]

You're welcome. Thank you for watching.

[@PakistanOnlineBusiness]

Thanks for sharing the unique way of filling the 7 keywords. I was thinking the similar but unsure about that. I will try this strategy 👍

[@paulmarles]

You're welcome. Glad you found it useful.

[@donnerjacob567]

Thank you. Subscribed tonight.

[@paulmarles]

Thank you and welcome to the channel. 👍

[@alvinoni77]

Amazing information and channel! Very thanks Paul!

[@stha7548]

Thanks Paul! You are always so helpful!

[@paulmarles]

You're welcome. Thank you for watching.

[@taredo3]

Thanks, Paul for your expertise very helpful!

[@paulmarles]

You're welcome. Thank you for watching.

[@explore-with-us]

so brilliant, thank you so much for your tips, I learned a lot

[@cherrlyn381]

Interesting strategies. Thank you.

[@skalam71]

Dear Sir Thanks for your great video I need your comment if the keyword search is not properly done on a book that is already published. can we change the book title I think it is not, Can we delete that book and republish with corrected keywords. thanks for your reply.

[@paulmarles]

You can't change the title so yes, it would be better to unpublish it and re-publish if it hasn't got a history of sales.

[@nextinstitute7824]

You're very concrete. Thanx!

[@millionairemom]

thanks Paul. gonna publish my halloween colouring book very soon!

[@ciar-t4236]

Hi Paul. How do you feel about using Amazon ads for KDP books? Any tips on that would be greatly appreciated 🤗

[@paulmarles]

It can be a good idea. There is a playlist on my channel on Amazon ads.

[@ciar-t4236]

@@paulmarles thank you! 🙏 I will check it out

[@basedinbox]

Hey Paul. That's a totally different approach form Nuria's strategy. This kind of titles are everything but creative and catchy. I wonder which strategy would work better 😅

[@paulmarles]

Depends on the type of books. Most low and medium content books don't need catchy titles as they are functional. I'd rather get my books ranked and seen rather than languish at the bottom of the searches because I opted for a nice catchy title. If it's kids story books, novels then that's a different matter. They rely more on a marketing startegy then just keywords.

[@basedinbox]

@@paulmarles I see and I kind of agree with you. She was also talking about LCB (check out her video). But on the other hand, doing that we'll end up like everybody else's title 🤷😵‍💫

[@cryptograffiti33]

@@paulmarles This exchange helped. I'm creating something that's not so Low Content, and intend to Market in various ways. So my title does not follow your techniques, Paul. Although, I will be implementing your keyword research techniques, and how you assign them into the seven keyword slots. Have you made a video on marketing strategies? Thank you immensely for these insights! I watched a couple of your videos repeatedly now.

[@써니쿨쿨]

Thank you 😊

[@paulmarles]

You're welcome.

[@soggynomadpress]

Yep, been doing it wrong all these months. lf you have a couple 'just okay' sellers would you go back and update their keywords with this approach... Or not upset the apple cart? Thank you!

[@paulmarles]

It's fine to experiment with the keywords in the 7 keyword boxes.

[@sarahjackson7116]

Re spelling I noticed on one of your videos Paul that you spelt the word colouring with the US spelling. I chose to use the UK spelling on mine but wonder if that’s a problem? Difficult to know when it’s worldwide!

[@paulmarles]

It's not a problem. It's just that the biggest market by far is the US and so I use spellings to target that market.

[@ВікторіяОсійчук-р4к]

Hey! Can we use the same words in a title and subtitle?

[@paulmarles]

You can but I wouldn't advise it as it's a waste of a different keyword you could be using.

[@giocattolicentimetro]

Hi Paul, do the keywords I enter in the subtitle also have to have less than 1000 results?

[@roblazer69]

Hello Mr. Marles. I don't know if someone asked this question already, in this video, you don't put commas between keywords, do commas matter when putting multiple keywords in the designated sections?

[@paulmarles]

No, they don't matter.

[@jbphoto99]

Hi great video. I notice in previous video u did you added commas between words in keywords. But this video has no commas. Does it matter?

[@paulmarles]

No, it doesn't matter.

[@redesignedbydelicia3052]

Silly question but is it better to add “paperback” vs “paper back” if that was a key word. Or does Amazon use them together?

[@SisiBisi-zh1cj]

Thanks

[@personalitydevelopment03]

Do we have to use coma (,) after a word in keywords?

[@paulmarles]

No. Just a space is fine.

[@dobbythefreeelf9638]

Mr paul, how do we build an email list of our customers? Everyone is saying that its very important to have an email list but I dont know how to get it done

[@paulmarles]

You put a link in your book which directs them to your website where you have a sign up page.

[@nancymatus4765]

Hi Paul, if Description is not index by Amazon, can we then include the keywords that are in the Description in the seven Backend Keywords boxes? Thank you.

[@mujahidal-rawahi6313]

Another great video Paul 👏. Though in 4:35, is it correct to say "childrens"? Coz children is already plural... And this drives the question, should we actually use keyword search phrases with grammar mistake?!

[@b3rt33]

Pretty sure 'Children's' would be correct in this situation - i.e. with an apostrophe. I would imagine there will be all sorts of server side matching of poor grammar, poor spelling etc. to enable Amazon to bundle similar terms together. I would stick with the correct grammar, unless the book needs something cooler - e.g. too kool for skool

[@paulmarles]

Children's

[@PODDZ-hy4gp]

Thanks Paul So this is the best way to put keywords into amazon kdp

[@paulmarles]

You're welcome.

[@LovetoBreak]

Hi Paul I dint find any keywords list after subscribing.

[@paulmarles]

The link is in the description of the video.

[@davidakanmu8103]

Thanks a lot for the video Paul. Please I have a question. Is this the same way to fill in keywords when running ads on Amazon? Or is there another format that you use?

[@paulmarles]

I use very targetted phrases in ads. Otherwise if you use single words like book etc. you'll soon run up a large advertising bill.

[@davidakanmu8103]

@@paulmarles Thank you very much

[@MrMainA]

Why does capitalization matter? I keep noticing that some sellers are writing words in all CAPS, but I always thought they do that to attract customer's attention rather than the algorithm itself. Do you have sources regarding capitalization? Also, why don't you use commas in those 7 keyboard boxes?

[@paulmarles]

When I say capitalisation I mean the first letter of the main words, not all the letters in the words. There is no need to use commas. It makes no difference.

[@MrMainA]

Much appreciated!

[@Karfferro]

This is a bad subtitle because amazon does not accept repetition of words and will block such a book due to customer confusion.

[@zengenesgames9483]

In Amazon website, it say best not to use 7 backend keyword same as tittle or subtitle.

[@RafaelLimapoeta]

Nice video.

[@paulmarles]

Thank you.

[@dariaurbanska7891]

I've heard from others that you shouldn't use the same keywords in the title and subtitle. Is it true? Is it a difference when it comes to small content, medium content or other? I'm greeting you dearly

[@paulmarles]

I wouldn't, purely becasue you would be wasting value space to put different keywords.

[@peaceandquiet]

You filled the 7 boxes randomly, so you did a keyword research only to use keywords in title and subtitle?

[@paulmarles]

No, that's not what I say in the video.

[@h.t.7483]

I have seen to never repeat words from title to subtitle, you don't see a problem doing that?

[@skyline2023i]

We need new video for Amazon kdp new cost of print

[@paulmarles]

Done.

[@PolishViking69]

Okay, but as far as I know, you shouldn't duplicate keywords, but you used the phrase "word search'' twice. So can you explain how it works?

[@Soccer_SV]

Subscribed

[@aminemamine7433]

hello Paul, Please i want to know if it is legal and authorized by kdp: for example you know the book of james clear: Atomic Habits; if I want to create a journal called: atomic habits journal; is this allowed? thank you

[@paulmarles]

You would have to check if atomic habits is trademarked - you cna check by going to uspto.gov

[@aminemamine7433]

@@paulmarles thank you

[@ruslank4028]

Can I edit these details of the book after it goes live? If so, will it go through the review process again? One more thing. I heard that Amazon does not allow using the word "gift" as a keyword. Is that true?

[@paulmarles]

They don;t like it in the title but it's ok in the 7 keyword boxes. You can edit the description and 7 keyword boxes after publishing but not the title or subtitle.

[@mohammedtoufik3373]

i think that if we list our book with the way you show us in this video the books will not be accepted from amazo and will recieve an email that: during our review we found the folowing title maight cause misleading contant due to the repatation off words

[@paulmarles]

I've done it for over 2000 books and never had one of those emails. But your free to do what you like. Just showing you what's worked for me but how you use it is up to you.

[@mohammedtoufik3373]

@@paulmarles i repeat only the word planner in the subtittle and amazon tell me that 'unnecessary repetitive terms' i change the word planner and they publish the book

[@minhajtrendz1196]

where is word search keyword list

[@paulmarles]

You can find a list in my Gumroad shop. Link in description.

[@minhajtrendz1196]

@@paulmarles please give the exact link not shop link

[@xiaohuli27]

​@@minhajtrendz1196 search for it yourself, stop being lazy. Do you want him to make your content for you too?