What I Know About Amazon Book Ranking
I know you guys are upset that it took me weeks to get to this but I had a million things to do. With that, I’ll keep it short.
Here we go!
How Many Books Does It Take to Steal #1?
Remember, I don’t know but I have a tested yet shaky theory. First off, remember my niche…
My book is also apart of this niche…
Park here for a minute because we’re gonna use the second one for our example. Now, recalling how we only have this many books in our niche…
Okay, now, first thing we need to do is go to the bestsellers section and see the rankings of #1, #20, and #100 on that list. This is important because the books with the lowest rankings are easy to overtake.
The ones with a higher overall ranking are extremely difficult to overtake and will require a lot of book sales.
The goal is to see how hard it is to break onto the bestsellers list (#100). Let’s look at that real quick.
This is number #100 as of today on the bestsellers list for my niche.
And these are its rankings. We are looking at the overall rank of #122,083 now. All we are trying to do is see how easy it will be to become a bestseller here. You can beat a #122,083 ranked book with 2-4 daily book sales, depending on the season.
Now, we need to see if this is a buying niche so we go to #1
And here are its rankings…
This isn’t a super hot buying niche but it’s still selling enough for me to indulge. Why? Because I can hit number one a lot easier and that’s our goal for many different reasons.
With a ranking like #6,407 you can take this within 200-300 sales on a high volume day and maybe only 50-75 sales on a low volume day.
You typically want to see the #1 and #2 books of a certain category in the 100′s, as it would mean that a lot of people are in that niche looking for books to buy. It would take 1,000-2,000 sales to beat a book in the 100′s on any given day. You would want your #20 spot to be #5000 to #9000.
The trick here is, the more you sell, the more you sell. You just need to push marketing enough to get your book to #100, then to #20 and, hopefully, if you’re lucky, you can take that #1 spot and really start to sell some books.
