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Insight 022 — KEYWORDS

  • Alex Revival
  • Apr 10
  • 1 min read

DIALOGUE 12: KEYWORDS

She picked her keywords carefully.

MAYA: "Journey." "Hope." "Transformation." Strong emotional words.

LAPTOP: No one searches for "journey."

MAYA: They search for feelings.

LAPTOP: They search for "small town romance second chance" and "enemies to lovers fantasy academy."

MAYA: My book isn't that specific.

LAPTOP: Amazon needs it to be.

MAYA: I don't want to reduce it to a formula.

LAPTOP: You currently appear on page 47 of search results.

MAYA: ...

What's on page one?

LAPTOP: "Small town romance second chance."

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