Erotica SEO Keywords
January 08,2020
So I noticed that the guide for writing erotica on Kindle was rather out of date (it was from 2015, after all), and since I know a little bit about SEO, I decided to spend several evenings gathering data with a very slow, free service to find the New Big Keywords for Erotica. In case you don't know, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. So, basically this is what the customers who will read and purchase your content will most likely be searching for when the go looking for erotica on Amazon.
I imagine there are lots more niches that I didn’t catch with my search, but these are likely the most popular ones since they came up quite quickly. The most important thing, is that people find your amazing erotica, and I want to help you reach them a lot easier.
Most Popular Type of Search: (Types of Searches 2+)
- Taboo
- Daddy
- Lesbian
- Gay
- Romance
- Menage
- Alpha Male
- Historical
- Harem
- Rough
- Doctor
- Virgin
- Step-Daughter
- Step-Dad
Less Popular, Still Frequently Searched: (Types of Searches 1)
- Paranormal
- Reverse Harem
- Step-Brother
- Teacher/Student
- Family
- Asian
- Age Play
- Swingers
- Horror
- Hypnosis
- Older Man
- Milking
- Wife
- Mom/Son (these two were specifically searched together)
- Medical
- Forced
- Fairy Tale
- Fantasy
- Captured
- Cheating
- Pregnancy
- Group sex
- Spanking
- Domestic
- Discipline
- Babysitter
- Sci-Fi
- Maids
- Mafia
- Western
- Regency
- Brat
While the old list is certainly out of date, I do think most of their Golden Twelve of Erotica survived through the years. You can definitely still find Alpha Males in the Top 100, as well as several others. But Cowboys is definitely out. It’s Doctors’ time to shine! I definitely recommend glancing over the other categories of top 100 for erotica as well, because they've also got some kinks that the keyword search definitely didn't pick up, like Monsters and Shifters, even though those categories definitely seem to still be popular.
Another thing I learned from all my research is to try and include as many of your keywords in your description, so even if you weren’t able to tag all of it, you’ll still be able to show up in the search! I hadn’t particularly heard this anywhere other than blog posts done by authors writing non-erotica publications like here, which isn’t something I tend to really look at since a lot of the time, the tips don’t really apply to erotica publishing. It's definitely something worth looking into though, if you don't know a lot about SEO.
In addition to all of that, I discovered some other fun information that might interest someone. The amount of times that books, short stories, and the like are included in searches:
Books is clearly the most popular, but potentially including information like that yours is a short story, might grab you more potential buyers when the system goes looking for you.
Additionally, there are tons of erotica stories that are bundled, made into an anthology, and whatnot, and here are the buzzwords for that as well:
From what I can tell, naming your anthology a collection or a series might gather more readers since that’s looked for more frequently than anything else. Hopefully this information is helpful! I certainly tried to make it be. Thanks for giving it a read!
This information was collected by searching erotica, erotic, and sex stories over multiple keyword searches and then consolidating the information. This was done with the free service, Scientific Seller.