Having trouble finding your book on Amazon, even if you search for it by name?
Here's why.
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If you're new around here, my name's Rachel Harrison-Sund,
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Today's question comes to us from Chandon Bisht.
And I'm so sorry if I'm mispronouncing that, but Chandon's question is:
My journal doesn't show up in amazon.com in search, however,
it shows up in the UK market.
And also when I try to see it from the KDP view, the book link,
can anyone help? Okay.
So there are a couple of pretty likely scenarios that are happening here.
The first one, which I think is probably the most common scenario is, you know,
first take a look at your title and if your title contains some very
common words or names,
then it's likely that there are going to be a ton of other books that also
contain those very common words, names or keywords.
And if those other books that have already been existing on Amazon for
an indeterminate amount of time, if they're ranking for any of those keywords,
then their books are going to be put ahead of your book in the search results,
simply because they have been given relevance by
Amazon, because they've already been existing,
they've been generating sales and ranking for those keywords.
So even if you are typing in the exact title
of your book, if there are other books that may not have that exact title,
but there are words in your title that they are ranking for
Amazon is going to consider their books to be more relevant and they will put it
ahead of yours, even if the title is, is different.
Even if they don't even have any of those keywords in the title,
but they've used those keywords down below and are ranking for them.
So that is most likely what's going on there.
And in that situation, if there are many,
many books ranking for those keywords that you've used in your title,
this could end up you know, your book could end up on the second, third,
fifth, 10th, 20th page,
just depending on how many other books are considered to be more relevant for
that search query that you've entered into the search bar. Now,
one thing you could do to narrow things down,
as you could make sure that you were searching for it in the books department
that sometimes will help, but oftentimes it doesn't.
And the main way to kind of get around this is to make sure you're always using
your lower competition keywords as your title,
try to stay away from really broad commonly used words whenever possible.
It's not always possible,
but if you do have some of those lower competition super niche,
longer tail keywords that still sound natural as a title,
this will help you to rank, you know,
it will go a long way towards getting you to rank on that first or second page
in comparison to using a more broad keyword that other
books are ranking for. Now.
I know sometimes we don't want to use our really red,
hot longer tail keywords in our title because we kind of want to keep them
secret, but sometimes that can backfire and you'll end up in this situation.
So I always like to use my lower competition keywords as my title
whenever possible. Now,
the second reason you might be experiencing this is because you might simply be
searching for your book on amazon.com from a country that
amazon.com doesn't actually ship to. So if that's the case,
then your book just simply,
isn't going to show up as being available to ship to your country.
So the one way that you can get around this is just to be sure that your book is
actually visible on amazon.com is to go ahead and change your
shipping address on the amazon.com store to a U S
address.
That way Amazon will think that you're shipping to the U S and it will show all
of the books that are available to be shipped within the United States. Now,
if you go ahead and you type in a US shipping address and your book
still, isn't showing up,
go ahead and type in your ISBN and see if your book
shows up that way.
If your book shows up by typing in the ISBN then it's one of those first two
situations at play, or maybe a combination of both of them. Now,
if you type in your ISBN and your book still is not showing up at all,
then that signifies some sort of a problem.
And you can just go ahead and email KDP and let them know that even when you
type in the ISBN for your book, your book is still not coming up,
and they should be able to help you out and tell you why your book isn't indexed
at all in that store. Now,
if you want a little bit more information on how Amazon's search results are
displayed,
I have left a link in the description below to Author
Central's search results FAQ. So you can go ahead and check that out.
They've answered a couple more questions along these lines down there.
So you might find that useful. Alright, that is it for today.
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