Setting Key Words and Categories for Your Books
Setting the key words and categories for your books on Kindle Direct, CreateSpace, and Amazon.com is absolutely vital to ensuring you are found by your target audience.
Take my illustrated storybook Pepe Builds a Nest, for example. On the surface, it's about a penguin (Otto) who bullies a smaller penguin (Pepe) by stealing the stones Pepe is gathering for his nest. In the end, they become friends (with a little peer pressure applied on Otto by Pepe's friends). So, in one respect, the book is about Nature/Animals/Birds. On the other hand, it's really more about Friendship/Bullies. The latter categories figured larger in my decision regarding which categories to emphasize (at least for now). The decision was made by looking at other popular children's books of the same genre and observing how they were categorized on Amazon.com.
Scanning the rankings of books in the same genre as yours and noting the categories in which the books are listed can be vital in helping you slot your books in this highly competitive marketplace.
Take my illustrated storybook Pepe Builds a Nest, for example. On the surface, it's about a penguin (Otto) who bullies a smaller penguin (Pepe) by stealing the stones Pepe is gathering for his nest. In the end, they become friends (with a little peer pressure applied on Otto by Pepe's friends). So, in one respect, the book is about Nature/Animals/Birds. On the other hand, it's really more about Friendship/Bullies. The latter categories figured larger in my decision regarding which categories to emphasize (at least for now). The decision was made by looking at other popular children's books of the same genre and observing how they were categorized on Amazon.com.
Scanning the rankings of books in the same genre as yours and noting the categories in which the books are listed can be vital in helping you slot your books in this highly competitive marketplace.
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