How to Optimize Book Metadata for Discovery
Metadata determines where your book appears and who sees it.
Checklist
- Keep title and subtitle consistent everywhere.
- Write a reader-first description built around promise and payoff.
- Choose specific categories instead of only broad genres.
- Use reader-language keywords, tropes, and themes.
- Link books to relevant genre and discovery hubs.
Build a permanent discovery foundation
The current author program creates one permanent author page, recurring featured-author participation, a genre rotation, and future book additions to the same author page.
See the $199 program