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You've chosen the title for your book.
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Now let's choose categories for your book
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to be placed in.
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The categories on Kindle and the
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categories on physical books are a little
bit different.
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When you first upload your book, you get
to choose two categories.
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You can come back later and suggest
additional categories to Amazon, and
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we'll cover that next.
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Now, when you're choosing your
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categories, there's three rules that I'd
like to give you number one you.
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Want to choose categories that have a
good number of searches.
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That means that when you look at the
category, and you especially look at the
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at the books that come up on top of that
category, you know number one number two
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number three.
If you look at their sales ranks, they
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have a good sales rank on Amazon, and
that means that they're selling a certain
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number of books on average per day.
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You want to make sure that the categories
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actually have traffic that you choose.
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At the same time, you want to make sure
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that you're able to rank in those
categories, because if you look through
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all the books.
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And if you go down to position number ten
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or position number twenty and it's still
super competitive, for example, maybe the
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book in number twenty is actually written
by an author that's on TV all the time
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wow that means that network, that
category is like super competitive.
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It's going to be hard to rank in that
category.
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Yeah, you know, it's probably not one
that you want to go after.
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At the same time, you want it to be
relevant to your book because you don't
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just want to get your book listed.
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The category you don't want to show U
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number ten if you're not selling any
books.
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You want to make sure that you're not
only selling books inside of this
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category, but you're attracting your
ideal client for the back end.
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So we're going to go over and we're going
to look at categories real quick.
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And before we do that, I want to
recommend Kindle Preneur because they
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have a calculator that it helps you
figure out the sales.
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And I mentioned it earlier and I
mentioned it again here here.
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So let's say, let's say that you find a
Kindle book and it's ranked 80000
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thousand overall.
On amazon well, if we put it in here,
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that means they're probably selling about
three books per day.
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Ok, that's interesting.
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So we know they're selling about three
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books per day.
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That'll help us with our numbers.
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Let's refresh it and let's say, OK, well,
let's say that we find somebody who's in
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category 30000, thousand so the thirtieth
thousand of the book, well, they're
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probably selling 10 books per day.
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So this is just a wild estimate, but it
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gives us an idea as we're searching
through how many books per day we can
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expect to be selling, you know, if these
are our direct competitors.
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And we do a good job against our
competitors.
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So let's go over and look at categories
on Amazon.
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I'm over at the Amazon bestsellers list,
and you can get here just by searching
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Google for Amazon bestsellers, and you'll
end up finding this.
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And then I navigated down to the Kindle
Store and Kindle ebooks.
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Well, from here you can see that we have
all these big major categories.
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Well, if we click over here on the left
and we click on health, fitness and
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dieting. Then we're going to see additional
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categories. And look, we can go deeper.
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So we're still a little too broad.
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So if we're in health, fitness and
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dieting, let's say that we want to go in
nutrition, OK?
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So now we're in nutrition.
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Now we have the general category of
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nutrition. Or if one of these is more relevant, we
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could go even deeper.
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So if we're talking about food allergies,
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we can end up going all the way down here
and now we're in the food allergy
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section. But, and you notice we have the top 100
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paid and you can also look at the top 100
free in the category.
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And when I say how well they're selling,
let's say we look at number one on the
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page. If we go down and see what their sales
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rank is, they are 9000 in the store.
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So it's not just this category because
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remember, they might be selling by
keyword searches, they might be selling
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by category searches.
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They might have their own promotions that
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they're doing.
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Let's type in.
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The 9000 I forget exactly what it was.
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We'll do nine thousand one hundred
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seventeen books per day is probably what
we could expect here and just as a
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comparison let's go back and let's drop
down to we'll say sixteenth two hundred
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and seventy six thousand so two hundred
and seventy six thousand and.
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And we can see less than a book a day at
that low over rank, which of course,
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they're lower in the category.
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So, but we know what we're in this
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category. So if this is what you're selling, maybe
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you're in this calorie.
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But let's just jump back up to health,
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fitness and dieting.
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And let's say that you're not nutrition,
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maybe you're in personal health.
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I'm kind of curious exactly what personal
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health is.
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Ok, there's Women's Health, there's men
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health, there's aging.
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Oh, aging is a good market.
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Let's go to aging.
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Ok. So this is the aging market.
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So again, I could do the same thing and
check.
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How books are selling here?
Are they too competitive, you know, to
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get lower positions on it?
What type of competition do we see here?
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At the same time, while you're looking at
some of your competitors, you might find
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other categories that are relevant.
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So if I look here, OK, they're number one
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in aging.
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We just saw that.
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They're also number one in osteoporosis
and number one in quick workouts.
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They are doing a good job across multiple
categories.
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And you can see overall in the Kindle
score, their number 7000 So they have a
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good rank.
They're selling a lot of books.
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And the ranking number one in all these
different categories.
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So you can find categories by doing
search.
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You can also find some categories by
looking at this direction, just seeing
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what some of the competitors are showing
up in and we see we could go there as
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well from here and we can see what the
quick workouts category looks like.
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Here we are.
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So you're going to find two categories
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that you submit when you first upload
your book, then you can come back and you
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can request.
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Up to 10 total categories.
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So another 8 categories you can actually
request.
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And again, that's up to Amazon's customer
support whether they're going to give it
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to you or not.
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But there's a simple process to ask for
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it. So what you'll do is you'll go over to
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author. Dot amazon dot com and contact them and,
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you're going to want to choose Amazon
book Page update Amazon categories when
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you ask for additional categories, you.
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You're going to want to use the full
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category string so that will look
something like Kindle store, Kindle
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ebooks, business and money, business
life, mentoring and coaching.
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We take you all the way down to the
category of mentoring and coaching.
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So you can suggest up to 10 categories
total, and you know you might as well go
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for all 10 when you do search, as long as
they're relevant.
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Don't be suggesting things that aren't
relevant.
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You're just going to get the whole thing
kicked back to and they're going to say
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no and just as a note.
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If they give you a no initially, that
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doesn't mean give up.
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That means wait a few days, submit on a
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different day, perhaps drop a couple of
categories that aren't as relevant, maybe
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submit a total of eight and see if that
gets accepted.
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Because a lot of times it just depends on
which customer support person you hit.
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So the process is really easy.
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We go to the Amazon contact us page,
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click on Amazon Book page over here.
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We're going to update Amazon categories
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and then you're going it says what here?
What are you updating to?
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And then they're telling you which one
applies to which add categories in more
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than one marketplace.
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Check that they're available in each
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marketplace because the category might
not be available in each marketplace.
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And then you can tell them what you want
to add it because they've given you very
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specific instructions of how to add the
categories that you'd like to add.
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And it depends.
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On which Amazon representative you get.
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So if you don't get what you want, try
again a little bit later.
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Next up is keyword phrases.
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You get 7 boxes and up to 50 characters
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each for the keyword phrases.
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The first few boxes you should focus on
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your most desirable keywords.
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These are the same keywords that you have
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in your title and your subtitle.
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These are the ones you really want to go
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after. And you're not going to use all 50
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characters in those first few boxes,
because those are just specific to them.
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Then you're going to use the last few.
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I'm going to say stuff here, but it's not
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keyword stuff because you're not going to
repeat the same keyword multiple times,
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but you're going to use the last few to
stuff additional long tail keyword
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phrases and you have 50 characters.
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You're going to use almost all 50
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characters in each of these boxes.
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And you have to remember when you're
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dealing with keywords, Amazon uses all
variations you type in, in whatever
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order. Ok, so it's similar to Google, very broad
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match. So if you put this word before, this word
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doesn't matter.
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Amazon's going to mix them all together
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for those keyword phrases.
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So just it doesn't matter.
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You don't have to go like opposite order
of the words or any of that type of
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stuff. Just put in the keywords that you want to
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show up for.
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Use those last few boxes to get a whole
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bunch of keyword phrases in that you want
to rank for.
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And when I say no keyword stuff, that
just simply means don't use the same
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keyword multiple times.
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You know, like weight loss diets, weight
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loss secrets, weight loss, intermittent
fasting.
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Don't keep doing that repeating weight
loss like that.
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So get the keyword phrases in and then go
after it.
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