How to Find the Right Categories for Amazon KDP - KDP Categories For Journals

About this video

The creator explains his frustration with finding the right Amazon KDP category for a book’s niche, saying he can spend a long time scrolling KDP’s category picker and still pick the wrong category. He shares a free tool he uses, which he names in the video as Kindle Ranker, and says he will link it in the description. The method is to type a general keyword for the niche into the tool rather than digging through KDP. He demonstrates with examples including beer, which breaks down to a nonfiction cooking and beverage path for beer, house, which breaks down into multiple category paths, and marriage, which he traces through a nonfiction, humor, and topic path. He says placing a book in the right category is very important for ranking, that he normally picks two categories, and that a third category can be added by calling KDP. He says he uses the tool several times a week and that it saves him a lot of time.

Key takeaways

• Having a book in the right KDP category is presented as very important for ranking and later sales traction
• Use the free category-finder tool he demonstrates instead of scrolling KDP’s category picker manually
• Search the tool with a general keyword for the niche, then narrow down through the category paths it shows
• He normally selects two categories for a book, and says a third can be added by calling KDP
• Examples shown include beer leading to a cooking/beverage path and marriage leading to a humor/topic path

Episode details: published October 10, 2019 · 5:33 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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