50 Killer Tips for Amazon KDP in 25 Minutes

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(Based on the video’s Arabic caption track.) Roberts runs through a long list of practical Amazon KDP tips to streamline workflow, reach more readers, and sell more books. He covers basics like bookmarking kdp.amazon.com, using the Contact Us support in the dashboard (email, live chat, or phone), and ISBN rules — required for print but optional for ebooks, with Amazon’s free print ISBN listing a title as independently published. He stresses discoverability: fill all seven backend keyword slots with search phrases up to 50 characters each rather than single words, use keywords in descriptions, and add A+ Content because, he says, Amazon indexes its text. Other tactics include using the free DS Amazon Quick View extension in incognito mode for niche research, Publisher Rocket for region-specific research, and Book Brush for A+ graphics. He recommends collaborating with authors in the same niche via newsletter swaps and group promotions through StoryOrigin to trigger Amazon recommendations, using Amazon Associates links (never inside the book itself) combined with Books2Read universal links, trying KDP Select for 90 days, using the 5-day free promotion for reviews, exploiting the 30-day New Releases window with a rapid-release schedule, claiming an Author Central profile, nominating books for Kindle deals or Prime Reading, linking formats and series pages, updating manuscripts without republishing, setting ebook preorders, running Amazon Ads starting with auto-targeting then building manual campaigns from search-term data, gifting copies, using X-Ray, and pricing just below a whole dollar in each marketplace rather than relying on automatic pricing. He closes by pointing to KDP University and the free KDP Jumpstart course, and to alternatives such as IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble Press, Kobo Writing Life, and Google Play Books.

Key takeaways

• Fill all seven backend keyword slots with multi-word search phrases up to 50 characters each, and use keywords in the description and A+ Content text, which Roberts says Amazon indexes for discoverability.
• Collaborate with authors in the same niche through newsletter swaps and group promotions (he prefers StoryOrigin) to build Amazon ‘also bought’ and email recommendations.
• Combine Amazon Associates affiliate links with Books2Read universal links so readers land in their local marketplace — but never place Associates links inside the book itself.
• Use the 30-day New Releases window with a rapid-release schedule of three or more titles spaced 30 days apart, and keep promoting after the schedule ends to maintain momentum.
• Start Amazon Ads with auto-targeting Sponsored Products campaigns, move irrelevant or poor-converting targets to campaign-level negative targeting from the search-term report, then build manual campaigns from high performers after a few months of data.

Episode details: published June 25, 2023 · 24:58 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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