Jaq D Hawkins has a fabulous guest post on The Story Reading Ape about choosing keywords. How can we learn which words readers are using to search for books? Jaq has some excellent suggestions. I also found this post by The Wildheart team, where they suggest using Google’s Keyword Planner 😊
We’ve all dealt with it. We get our book files ready, check one last time for any typos that might have slipped through, get a cover file ready and write the crucial blurb that will sell or fail to sell our book… once someone actually sees it.
Then we get down to the line for selecting keywords and the fate of the book’s discoverability lies in the careful selection of a few words or terms that we predict people will use to search for a book just like the one we’re about to upload.
On Amazon, usually the seller that results in the largest percentage of sales, we get a limit of seven words or terms. How do we choose the keywords that will bring our book to the attention of our target audience?
I’ve read countless articles on choosing keywords from blogs and author groups, all giving advice on…
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TINA FRISCO 
Thanks for sharing, Tina
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Welcome, Robbie ❤
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BTW, I love your flowery header. Every time I come onto your blog, the flowers make me feel happy before I even read anything.
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Thanks for sharing Tina XXX 😀
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Welcome, Chris ❤
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I found this post to be most helpful. I struggle with keywords. Thanks for sharing, Tina!
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Welcome, Jan. I also struggle with keywords. So glad it helped you ❤
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Great share T. We can never learn enough about the nitty gritty stuff. 🙂 ❤
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Thanks, Deb. I thought of you when posting this, my fabulous FBI friend 🙂 ❤
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Lol, I’ve already been investigating for quite some time, but new info never hurts. 🙂 ❤
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