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Selling on Amazon with Andy Isom

#210 - What are negative keywords and are they important in PPC?

Selling on Amazon with Andy Isom

Andy Isom | Amazon FBA Seller & Agency Founder

Amazon, Business, Amazonfba, Selling, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Personalbusiness, Productbusiness, Ecommerce, Onlinebusiness

4.9816 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk about the importance of negative keywords in your pay per click advertising. A negative keyword is a keyword you can add to your advertising campaign to inform Amazon, NOT to advertise your product when someone types in that keyword. 

 

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0:00.0

I guarantee you, if you go into your search term report, 90% of those are going to have zero sales.

0:06.7

So all these search terms, Aztec Dog Mandana, two clicks, no sale.

0:10.4

So you're seeing all these different search terms in here that are getting clicks, but no

0:14.3

sales.

0:15.3

This is where you come to make the decision.

0:17.2

Do I need to add something, a word, whether that's a negative exact or a negative phrase to my negative targeting, to make sure Amazon stops showing ads to these people?

0:32.8

You're listening to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isam.

0:38.4

What are negative keywords?

0:40.7

And are they important in pay-per-click advertising on Amazon?

0:46.9

Let's open up my Amazon Seller Central Advertising account.

0:50.5

And we're actually going to talk through here what negative keywords are why you might want

0:56.3

to start paying attention to them and how do best best practices for using them in your campaigns

1:02.3

first let's define a negative keyword a negative keyword is a keyword that you can add in your

1:09.5

advertising campaigns to say to Amazon, please do not

1:15.2

advertise my product when someone types in this word. And there's a few different ways that

1:21.9

you can specify where you don't want your ads to show. You can include a negative exact keyword or you can

1:29.5

include a negative phrase keyword. And we're going to talk about examples of each of those in this

1:35.5

podcast episode. For the purpose of this episode, I'm going to just kind of walk you guys through here

1:40.8

again on the podcast. I understand this is audio only for most of you.

1:45.8

We're going to walk through here in your advertising account, how you would decide when to

1:51.9

add a negative keyword and what negative keywords to add to your campaigns.

1:57.7

Negative keywords mainly apply to keyword-based campaigns. So when you set up your

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