When preparing your book for Kindle publication they offer
to let you pick up to 7 keywords to describe your book. Here you need to be cold and analytical. Don’t
just throw in large categories like “mystery” or “Young Adult.”
Do you really want to be competing with James Patterson, E.
L. James and JK Rowling for ranking?
On the left hand side of the Kindle
Bestsellers page is a list of all of the available categories. Comb through
it carefully and locate one that is less competitive.
This can be done by carefully going through the “sub-categories”
and finding niches that have books with high rankings in the category but are
nowhere near the coveted “Top 100” of all Bestsellers. With The Fourth Awakening, we selected “Religion
and Spirituality>New Age>Mysticism”.
If you find a suitable niche, click on the top ranked book
and scroll down to the ranking section:
TFA USA RANKING 10/21/2012
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,328 Paid in Kindle
Store (See
Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #1 in Kindle
Store > Kindle
eBooks > Nonfiction > Religion
& Spirituality > New
Age > Mysticism
- #3 in Books > Religion
& Spirituality > New
Age > Mysticism
- #33 in Kindle
Store > Kindle
eBooks > Nonfiction > Religion
& Spirituality > Spirituality
TFA UK RANKING 10/21/2012
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,328 Paid in Kindle
Store (See
Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #1 in Books > Mind,
Body & Spirit > Thought
& Practice > Mysticism
- #2 in Kindle
Store > Books > Nonfiction > Religion
& Spirituality > New
Age
- #3 in Kindle
Store > Books > Fiction > Religious
Fiction
This morning TFA was only the 5,328 of all books on Amazon
but was still #1 in that Bestsellers niche.
Second place was well over 7,000 in all books. Because we’re in this niche -- which is easy
to dominate -- TFA has been a #1 Bestseller for over three straight years. It was number one when the Kindle was selling
for $4.99 and $2.99 and now when priced at 99 cents.
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