Setting up a book's Categories

Categories are the single most important thing that you might need to sell you book.
Especially if it's already selling.

Confused? Well, don't be. I'll explain to you everything that needs to be explained. Here we go.

So you have your book selling around 0 copies a day. Now you decide to hire an ebook promo site (if you want info on where to go for such sites click here ) and the site has your book chugging along. It probably gets you at least 15 copies on the promo day (if it isn't you're probably doing something wrong)

Now these 15 copies in a day, will increase your book rank to somewhere near the 10k - 15k range. Why did you hire an ebook promoter? Because you wanted people to see your book. Now the ebook promoter has done his job and shown it to everyone he could. What do you do now? You could spend money on another promoter but that'd be bad marketing.

What you should do is use Categories. Now how do you do that?

If you go to the kindle bestsellers tab you can see the kindle ebook categories on your left hand side

Let's take my book series for example. It's a Science Fiction book that's directed towards the YA crowd. Now I can either put it in Sci-Fi or in Young Adult Sci-Fi (You can actually chose both if you want to but read on to understand why you shouldn't do that)

First let's check out the Sci-Fi genre category.

So now we've gone to the Science Fiction Category. Our main agenda isn't with the first page here but is instead with the last one.

This is the overall rank for the 100th ranked book in Sci-Fi. and you should know it's pretty hard to get into the top 5k of books so this is poor category choice. This category is far to competitive for your book to fight in. Unless your book is super strong already and is surging with sales this isn't the category for you.

Now I also told you guys that my book was a YA targeted book, so let's check out YA Sci-Fi and see if that category suits the book.

So now we're in the young adult category. Let's see what the 100th ranked book is like.

Whoa! The book is all the way at 26,690! That is much much easier to get into. I need to sell maybe 10 books a day to get into it, which means if I sell 15 in a day after using the promo we mentioned before, then we get much higher up, and that means I get my book featured on the category list.
Now how does this help us? Let me explain.
Everything on the internet is about the number of people who view it. You may have a link that gets clicked on only 0.1% of the time, but if you send enough people to the link, you'll get plenty of clicks in a single day. 
The same way, if enough people see your book, there will definitely be substantial sales. What's our secret to getting discovered? Well, there are plenty of them, but this one here is the most crucial.

Get onto the right categories.

That single piece of advice can help you get a steady surge of books. Hope it works out for you! if you have any questions feel free to contact me.