This children's book on Amazon has a best seller's rank of 310,
which means it's selling between 5 to 10,000 books per month,
which with royalties of around $1.40 per book means that this book is
making between 7 to $13,500 per month
in pure profit. And when I look at the best sellers ranks of my books,
I know that that figure is towards the higher end of the range.
But there are a couple of issues.
The first one being the competition for these types of books on Amazon and two,
the actual creation of one of these types of books.
And that's what we're going to look at in this video today.
So if you are in the business of creating no content and low content books on
Amazon, or looking to get into this business,
then follow along as we explore this book further.
So what are these books? They are site words books,
and they're books where kids can trace around letters, simple words,
simple sentences to improve their handwriting, their spelling,
their reading, and also associate images with words.
And the education niche on Amazon is very strong because books sell very
well and they're strong sellers all year round.
So that's why I like these particular types of books. But as I said,
the problem is the competition for these types of books.
We can see all these books here have very good best sellers ranks,
but they also have quite a lot of reviews,
which means they have a good sales history,
which helps these books rank on the first page on Amazon.
And also when we search for site words, books on Amazon,
we can see that there are 8,000 results and that is quite a lot
of competition. And so that's the first hurdle that we need to overcome.
And we do that with keyword research. Now, what is a keyword? Well,
it's just the search term that customers enter into the search bar on Amazon
when they're looking for a product to buy. In this case site words book.
And you can see here that Amazon actually gives all these other suggestions,
which are also search terms, which we call keywords.
And I've also got a free plugin installed called AMZ suggestion expander,
which gives us all these other keywords here.
So what I normally do is take each of these words,
put them into the search bar and look at the number of search results.
Because it will vary for each search term.
And what we're after is those words where, or search terms,
where we're still gonna get sales, but the competition is a lot less.
And then what I do is take all those words and put them into a spreadsheet.
Now I have done a video on my keyword research in detail,
and I'll leave a link to that, below, in the description,
but I don't want to just go through and rehash it all here.
So what I normally do is then create a spreadsheet,
which I will enlarge for you. And we have basically three columns,
one for the keyword or search terms, one.
For the Amazon search results and one for the Google monthly searches where
available. Now, if a keyword does have Google monthly searches,
it just gives that keyword a bit of extra strength and may mean that your book
might actually appear in the Google search results.
So what we have here is this important column,
which is a number of Amazon search results.
And you can see here that they do vary wildly.
We've got 10,000 here for this particular search term all the way down to
127. And what we're after are those search terms with 1000
search results or less that's in the all categories on Amazon
and not the books category.
The reason for this is that I found that when you do have 1000 search results or
less, it is a lot easier to rank on Amazon organically. Now,
if you are thinking about running ads or your experienced with ads,
then you can consider those keywords that have more Amazon
search results. Now in total,
I found 106 different keywords,
and it does take a bit of time putting all these into the search bar.
But have saved you the work completely by uploading them to my Gumroad shop.
Again, I'll link to that down below in the description.
It's completely free of charge and you can download this list of keywords in
Excel .CSV and .PDF format.
And they are the good basis on which for you to do further research.
And you can use these keywords in the title, subtitle,
seven keyword boxes, and also in the description of your book.
Now, when I was doing my keyword research,
I did come across a few interesting sub niches or niches within
the main site words book niche.
We have the word search site words with 1000 search
results and all decent looking best sellers ranks.
I found site words story books,
which might be useful if you are into writing kids' stories.
Next is site words Spanish workbook. Again a thousand results.
And this is very interesting because not only are these books selling well,
but also you could think about books in other languages as well.
And then we've got dot marker site words books with only 228
search results. And again,
selling very well by the looks of the best sellers ranks.
And if we actually scroll down,
we've got books on the first page that don't have a best sellers rank at all.
So ranking in this particular sub niche, with these keywords,
would I think give you a good chance of getting on that first page and hopefully
making some sales. And lastly, we've got unicorn site word books, again,
1000 search results, selling well. But along these same lines,
you could also think about other themes like dinosaurs, mermaids, or space.
So now we come to the creation of the interior of one of these books.
We can see that it's basically a.
Handwriting interior with some words written in the dotted font,
and we've got these images as well.
So what we need is the basic handwriting interior to start with.
And I've got one of these that you can download for free in my Gum oad shop.
And here it is.
And this is for an 8.5 by 11 inch book.
And you can download this in .SVG and .PNG file,
which is useful if you are using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator,
Affinity Designer or Inkscape.
Plus I've recently uploaded to this product, a .PDF file,
which means you can edit it in Canva,
which is very useful because they do have a dotted font that you can use.
So just go over to Gumroad, again, link in the description below,
just click on the product, download the files to your computer,
then go across to Canva. In the top right click on create design.
And here we have the import file button.
So just click on that and you'll then need to upload the .PDF file
to Canva. So once that's uploaded, just click on it and it will open the file.
Now, another quick note about this interior, it is a no bleed interior,
which is important for the settings when you do eventually upload it to the
KDP platform. So here you can see we've got our interior.
So the beauty of this interior is that each line is clickable and therefore
editable. Now, before we do anything to this page,
what I advise doing is making a duplicate copy by clicking on the duplicate page
button. That gives us another page to work on after this initial page.
So the first thing we can do is put a box around all the lines,
click on the color box and we can adjust the shade of our lines as necessary.
For this I'm just going to stick to the mid gray.
What we can also do is highlight a few lines and just delete them.
This then gives us space to put an image and, or a box with text in.
For this I'm just going to show you with an image off Canva. Now,
if you do use images off Canva,
you do need to make yourself familiar with the licensing agreement on Canva.
I often use graphics from Vecteezy and Creative Fabrica because I know
for certain that I've got the commercial license to use them on all print on
demand products. But you'll find that most images on Canva you can use,
but you do need to double check yourself.
So what we can just do is drag an image across, reduce it in size.
And there we've got a little elephant on our top line. And as I said,
we could add a box and some text also in this blank space.
Next we need to add some text.
And this is what I like about Canva in that it does have a dotted font.
So in the left hand side,
click on text and then in the search box type student.
And here we have our Canva student font dotted.
So just click on that and we can then drag a corner to increase the size
and then position that as required. We'll just go onto this line here.
Now we don't want to leave it as this. So I'm just going to type in,
I love elephants, just as an example.
Then we can drag that into position like so,
and you can increase or decrease the size of the font as you wish. Now,
the font is a bit dark. So I'm just going to double click on the sentence,
click on our text color box and just change this to mid gray.
And there we have the basic elements of one of these types of books.
So you could fill in all the other lines.
And what I would also do is just delete those lines in the middle there and add
in a different image, some text, if necessary and then do on the next line,
some letters, the next line, some simple words. And then the line after that,
a simple sentence for kids to trace around. Once you've done that,
you'd obviously go onto the next page. Again, before you edit that page,
I would just recommend duplicating it so that you do have another page to work
on.
And you can continue doing that until you've done the required number of pages
that you want for your book. Once you've done that,
you hit the share button top right hand corner, click on,download.
In the file type, choose PDF print,
and then you just download it to your computer.
And that's ready to upload to the KDP platform. As well,
you'll need to create a book cover for these types of books.
So you could do that yourself, or you could outsource it on a site like Fiverr,
where there are some good offerings for people that will create book covers for
you. Now,
if you've not yet created your first KDP book and
uploaded it to Amazon, what I suggest doing is first of all,
starting with a basic lined journal or notebook.
And I've done a video right here on the step by step process of creating
your first lined notebook,
which is then ready to upload to Amazon via the KDP platform.
Thank you very much for your time.
It is very much appreciated and until next time and goodbye.