KDP Keyword Miner — Candidate Phrases from Category Bestsellers
Where do candidate keywords come from before you have anything to verify? From the categories themselves: recurring phrases mined from each category's charting titles — frequency plus rank weighting, across all 499 scanned categories. Frequencies are counted from charting titles, not search-volume estimates.
Covers 499 categories, with phrases mined from each category's charting titles — data from the Oct 19, 2026 scan snapshot, updated periodically, not real-time tracking.
How to read these phrases
- Frequency (×N)
- How many of the category's charting titles contain the phrase. Higher frequency means the category's front rows consistently use it — a title-pattern count, not a search-volume estimate.
- Rank weighting
- Each occurrence is weighted by chart position (rank 1 counts 50, rank 50 counts 1), so phrases carried by the category's strongest sellers outrank phrases carried by its tail.
- How to use them
- Copy a phrase, then verify before committing: run it through the keyword competition lookup (page-one scan) before it earns a title or backend slot. Mining answers what the category's books are called; verification answers whether you can compete on it.
The easiest-to-enter categories and their front-row phrases
| # | Category | Front-row phrases (frequency) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Computers & Technology | 101 funniest (×11) · 101 funniest memes (×6) · 101 funniest hp memes (×3) |
| 2 | Art Movements | mafia romance (×9) · enemies to lovers (×4) · savage don (×3) |
| 3 | Physics | scientific american (×3) · quantum physics (×2) · brief history (×4) |
| 4 | Individual Sports | tai chi (×9) · 28 day (×6) · 10 minute (×5) |
| 5 | Love Triangle | marriage in crisis (×41) · second chance (×40) · second chance romance (×36) |
| 6 | Weddings | bride dream (×6) · wedding dresses (×3) · perfect wedding (×3) |
| 7 | Russia | journey through (×4) · learn russian (×3) · travel writing (×2) |
| 8 | Amish & Mennonite | amish romance (×6) · amish christmas (×6) · box set (×4) |
| 9 | Architecture | interior design (×5) · 100 ways (×2) · cozy white cottage (×2) |
| 10 | Drinks & Beverages | cookbook for beginners (×6) · quick easy (×3) · ultimate guide (×2) |
Mine the category, then verify the word
Mining gives you candidates; the keyword competition lookup tells you whether a phrase's page one is worth entering — the review bar, price bands, and demand signals from a real scan. Sign up to run your mined phrases through it.
Verify keywords in the consoleFrequently asked questions
Are these keyword search volumes?
No — and that's deliberate. Each phrase is mined from the titles of a category's charting books (top 50 per scan), counted by how often it appears and weighted by how high those books rank. Amazon publishes no KDP search volumes; honest keyword discovery starts from what charting titles actually say, not estimated numbers.
How is a phrase's score calculated?
Two factors: frequency — how many of the category's charting titles carry the phrase — and rank weight, so phrases sitting on higher-ranked bestsellers surface first. Read it as "what the winners of this category are signaling," which is exactly what a keyword candidate should look like before you spend effort verifying it.
What do I do with the phrases I find?
Click any phrase to copy it. Mining is free with no account; the next step — checking a phrase's real competition — runs in the signed-in KDP workspace as a keyword competition lookup, so you see the page-one lineup before spending any of your seven backend slots on the word.