This One Change Increased My IngramSpark Income From $2000 to $5500 in One Month

About this video

The creator says a single metadata change lifted his IngramSpark income, by his account, from about $2,300 in August to about $5,500 in September, without adding more than a few books. The change, which he credits to his virtual assistant, was to fill IngramSpark’s keyword field to its roughly 250-character limit for every book, rather than leaving it sparse. He sourced the terms with Publisher Rocket’s AMS keyword search, copying related, high-use phrases for a book’s topic — using a programming example, the title topic plus neighbouring topics if needed to fill the space — and says he checked with IngramSpark support about trademark and author-name terms, while urging viewers to confirm that themselves because Amazon KDP treats such terms differently. He argues metadata matters more on IngramSpark and Draft2Digital than on Amazon because publishers cannot run AMS-style ads there to surface a book for other searches, so title, categories and keywords drive discovery. He notes Draft2Digital appears to allow far more keywords, and presents Publisher Rocket as also useful for Amazon ads, categories and general keyword research.

Key takeaways

• Fill IngramSpark’s keyword field to its character limit for every book instead of leaving it partly empty.
• Use a keyword tool such as Publisher Rocket to gather related search phrases buyers use for the book’s topic.
• If one topic does not supply enough terms, add closely related topics to complete the keyword space.
• Metadata is especially important on IngramSpark and Draft2Digital because ad-driven discovery options available on Amazon are not available there in the same way.
• Check platform rules yourself before using trademark, author-name or other-book terms, since KDP prohibits what another platform’s support may allow.

Episode details: published October 28, 2019 · 9:40 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Sean Dollwet’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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