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Your Amazon Keyword Worksheet

A step-by-step worksheet for the seven KDP backend keyword fields, checked against Amazon's current guidance."

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Indie Lit Lounge
Aug 11, 2026
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Backend keywords are one of the most overlooked parts of a book listing, seven small fields that decide which searches a book actually shows up in.

This worksheet walks through the whole process by hand: mapping out how readers search, testing those searches against Amazon’s own autocomplete, checking what similar books are doing, and drafting all seven fields properly.

Every rule inside comes straight from Amazon’s current KDP guidance, checked this month.

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