KDP Keywords Cheat Sheet
Amazon gives you exactly 7 keyword fields. Most authors waste them. This 17-page cheat sheet gives you the system for finding high-traffic, low-competition keywords — plus ready-to-use keyword sets for every major genre so you can optimize your listing in minutes.
💡 What you'll learn
How to research, select, and optimize the seven keyword fields on Amazon KDP — with ready-to-use keyword sets organized by genre and subgenre for immediate discoverability.
Description
Amazon gives you seven keyword fields. Seven chances to tell its algorithm who should see your book. Seven opportunities to appear in the searches your ideal readers are typing right now. And most self-published authors fill them with generic garbage — "romance novel," "thriller book," "self help" — keywords so broad they are functionally useless, buried under millions of competing results.
Your keywords are your book's search engine. They determine which readers find you, which categories you appear in, and how Amazon's recommendation algorithm classifies your book. Bad keywords mean invisible. Good keywords mean discoverable. And the difference between the two is not luck or intuition — it is a system.
KDP Keywords Cheat Sheet gives you that system. Built from optimizing 100+ books across 15+ languages on Amazon KDP, this 17-page guide shows you exactly how to research, select, and deploy keywords that drive organic traffic to your book.
- 🔑 The 7-field system — how each of your seven keyword fields should serve a different strategic purpose, from broad genre targeting to long-tail reader-specific phrases
- 🔍 Research methodology — the step-by-step process for finding keywords that real readers actually search for, using Amazon autocomplete, competitor analysis, and keyword tools
- 📊 Traffic vs. competition analysis — how to evaluate whether a keyword is worth targeting based on search volume estimates and the strength of competing books
- 📚 Ready-to-use keyword sets by genre — pre-researched keyword lists for romance (by subgenre), thriller, mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, horror, literary fiction, self-help, business, health, memoir, and more
- 🏷️ Category keyword triggers — the specific keyword phrases that unlock hidden Amazon browse categories you cannot select manually during upload
- ⚠️ Common keyword mistakes — the errors that waste your seven fields and actively hurt your discoverability, with fixes for each
- 🔄 Optimization workflow — how to monitor keyword performance and rotate underperforming keywords using Amazon Ads data
Seven fields. Zero wasted.
