Categories for books
Good evening, hope someone can help me as I’m getting pretty frustrated with Amazon support.
So, I am a small publisher and currently sell on Amazon marketplace. The listings for the books appear in Amazon’s catalogue as I think it pulls the data from the Nielsen book database, however the books are only listed in 1 of Amazon’s categories and that’s “Books” that’s it! no subcategories! Now with the millions of books on Amazon, there’s no way our books can be found generally, they’d only be found if searched by title.
Amazon support keeps asking me for the browse nodes for the categories I want to be in, but I’m having difficulty finding those on Amazon. I’ve had to trawl the internet and the first lot of nodes from browsenodes.org they said weren’t correct.
They provided me with a link to the product classifier but it takes me to a page that says invalid access, you do not have permission to view this page.
Amazon then sent me a tree map, but it doesn’t seem to contain the category for books, and it seems to be for the EU marketplaces that’s not UK.
I then found a wordpress site that supposedly have the browse nodes so I’ve emailed support with those, but there’s a chance that they’re invalid again.
Can anyone help?
2 replies
Seller_cJms0GbotqqtV
I would say that the vast majority of buyers searching Amazon for books do so by a combination of title and/or author. A small minority, eg students, may search by ISBN. Very few search by browse node.
However, if you need to find Amazon browse nodes, click on Inventory, Add a Product. Then Create a new product. That will bring up the browse node tree, from which you can find all the books sub-categories.
Paul
Seller_nI6DfI3ZWyIoO
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your reply. So the reason why I wanted subcategories is I thought if someone was looking for say, history books, they would look under the history subcategory and further in if categories are available to really drill down eg, region etc.
As a test, when I look for one of our book titles generally, (so I type in Liverpool history) it brings up Liverpool history books but ours are not listed. Now if I type in the actual title then it brings up the listing. I noticed that our books are only listed in the category of “Books” while everyone else’s books seems to be placed in subcategories too so easier for people to find depending on what they are interested in?
