How to Update Your Amazon Book Categories
Updating your book categories is one of the best ways to position your book for a bestseller run on Amazon.
HITTING #1
It’s an open secret that I love teaching to authors, because it lets you run with the big boys and gives you a meaningful, tangible goal to chase. And it’s not all vanity. Sure, it feels good to be a #1 bestseller or #1 new release in an Amazon category.
STAYING TOP TEN
But if you can get your book selling consistently in the top 10 or so in that category for 30 days? Then Amazon will recognize you as “a book that sells” and AMAZON WILL START PROMOTING YOUR BOOK FOR YOU. This is the real secret sauce. Hitting #1 is great for social proof. Staying top 10 in that category is great for ongoing promotion. This is a way to to get on the radar of Amazon’s algorithm and start working together with them. What does it take to stay top 10 in a category? In popular categories, it takes hundreds of sales a day. In sub-categories, it takes more like 5 sales a day.
You can do this.
Here’s how.
Create your Amazon Author Central Account.
Research and choose your best categories with Publisher Rocket, or book a session with me and we’ll do it together.
Go into the HELP TOPICS and choose Books —> Update Book Information, then click “Contact Us”
4. Then, click on “Amazon Book Page” and click “Request Call”
5. Someone from Amazon’s Author Central team will call you and ask you to verify account details.
6. Now, just read them the browse threads of the categories you want to be part of, and they’ll update them for you right there on the phone. They just type it in as you are talking. It feels like magic. And in a way it is. You can take your book from an obscure title in an overcrowded category to Top Ten or even #1 in a less crowded, much more relevant category. No one else will ever do this for you. This is a thing you get to do for yourself, and it will impact your book ranking and sales for the long term.
Still have questions? Email me. Let’s get your book the right categories and a fair shot at bestseller status.