Keywords/Search Terms: What are they, how long can they be?

When people shop for their next book, they generally go to the search bar at the top of the store page and describe the type of book they are looking for and hit SEARCH.  These are called Keywords or Search Terms. 

Currently, Amazon and Smashwords are our only store partners that use the keywords you type in at Draft2Digital to build  their search engine results, but we continue to collect and submit your keyword selections to all vendors in the hopes that they will start to use them as well. 

Amazon uses the words that the customer typed in to decide which books should be shown to the customer. The phrase or word the customer types in is what you, as an author, should consider as “keywords.” 

You can type in words/phrases such as: 

single women, female hero, female protagonist, leading lady, funny, EFT trading tips, stock market tips, 70's rock band, romance, motorcycle gang, crime drama, detective story, suspenseful, surprise ending, plot twists, relationships

Any short group of words that correctly and accurately describes your book's content can all be used as part of your Search Terms. 

• Each keyword or phrase can be up to 25 characters long (spaces count as a character). 
• Amazon uses the first 7 keywords or phrases you've included when building their search engine tools.
• Once you type a keyword or search term in the SEARCH TERM field, hit the enter key on your keyboard to see it populate in the box below.