#433 – Amazon PPC Q&A, Search Query Performance Reports, & More!

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Are you looking to learn more about the world of Amazon advertising? Tune in to this special TACoS Tuesday SSP episode as we sit down and answer all your Amazon advertising questions with this month’s expert guest, Mansour Norouzi, Director of Amazon Advertising at Incrementum Digital. With years of experience in the industry, Mansour will share his key insights on the latest tips, Amazon PPC management rules, strategies, and best practices for successful Amazon advertising campaigns.

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In episode 433 of the Serious Sellers Podcast, Bradley and Mansour discuss: 

• 01:45 – Get To Know Our Expert Guest, Mansour  
• 05:00 – Using The Search Query Performance Report For Your Amazon PPC Strategy  
• 12:00 – Rules Of Managing PPC And Exploring The Adtomic Platform
• 22:30 – Mansour’s Cap For Exact Campaigns  
• 24:00 – Negative Keyword Thresholds  
• 29:50 – Should I Optimize My Listing Before Running PPC? 
• 31:30 – What Do We Do If 90% Of Our Sales Are Only From PPC? 
• 32:30 – Is It Better To Narrowly Target Search Terms When Launching?
• 34:00 – Will The Performance Of A New Isolated Campaign Not Be As Good As The Original? 
• 35:35 – What’s The Best Course To Learn Amazon PPC Professionally? 
• 37:20 – Mansour’s 60-Second Tip 
• 38:50 – How To Get In Touch With Mansour Norouzi And Incrementum Digital

Transcript

Bradley Sutton:

Today we’ve got our monthly TACoS Tuesday special, where we’re gonna talk all things PPC. And we’ve got an expert who’s gonna talk to us about PPC at launch, and also how to use Search Query Performance to better your PPC game. How cool is that? Pretty cool, I think.

Bradley Sutton:

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Mansour:

Going Great. Thank you so much for having me.

Bradley Sutton:

Thank you so much for being here. Now tell us a little bit about yourself. This is your first time on TACoS Tuesday. This is your first time on our podcast. So like we don’t have your backstory. And you were just telling me you’re living right now in Canada, right?

Mansour:

Yes. I live in Toronto, Canada. I am an Amazon seller selling in Amazon Canada. And also my main thing is PPC. I work with Incremental Digital as a Director of Amazon Advertising. And over there we have hundreds of clients. We spend over 5 million on a monthly basis. And I’m in charge of the strategy, the new training, getting in touch with the clients and overall managing the whole PPC department.

Bradley Sutton:

Now did you start as an Amazon seller?

Mansour:

Yes, I did.

Bradley Sutton:

About what year?

Mansour:

I started at the end of 2018, and by 2019, I launched my first product and since then I have had the product and I’m about to launch a new brand. It’s a nutritional supplement brand in Canada. So I’m working on that actively. I’ll see how it works.

Bradley Sutton:

Supplements in Canada are no joke and there are so many regulations and stuff over there. That’s crazy.

Mansour:

That’s a good thing because of that barrier to internet, right? Not everyone can interact, so.

Bradley Sutton:

Exactly. Okay. How did you get introduced to e-commerce in general?

Mansour:

Well I used to be construction manager and I moved to Canada around 2015. I used to be a construction manager. My background is in civil engineering, so as I was in construction management, I love that freedom of location. So I started looking online to see what I could do, that it could give me that kind of freedom. So I ended up learning about selling on Amazon. Actually, Helium 10 course was one of the course, the Freedom Ticket, one of the courses that I watched. I loved it. Kevin King, you did a great job. And I learned a lot from you guys. So that’s how I entered Amazon. And it’s funny that I was in a meet up in Canada. We were like what few of these Amazon sellers, one of these people was talking to me, asked me, who’s managing your PPC?

Mansour:

I said, I’m managing, it’s, I’m okay. there’s no issue with that. And he all of a sudden said, do you wanna manage my PPC? I said, sure, I’ll manage your PPC So I don’t remember, like, he’s my friend now, but I charged him $250 per month at a time to just manage his account like nothing. So I did a good job. He was happy and he introduced his friend to me. He was a seven figure seller. I started managing his account. To this day, he’s still my client and he’s doing great. We are friends, we hang out sometimes. So that was my process to transition to PPC. I realized, okay. Seems like I’m good at it.

Bradley Sutton:

Yeah, probably realize you should be charging a little bit more than $250 a month I would assume. Well we’re gonna hop into something that you didn’t know, but I know you can help me on. Cause I just want to kind of get your help on what like your current strategies are. But before we hop into this little mini segment and get into everybody’s questions, I want to quickly talk about, I don’t know if you heard I did a couple podcasts on differences of Brand Analytics and Search Query Performance and, and product opportunity explorer at face value, it just seemed like, oh, two of these must be wrong because they’re all showing different things.

Bradley Sutton:

But then when you dig deeper, you’re, you’re, you’re kind of looking and, and you understand that it’s comparing apples and oranges. You know, like one exactly is normalized and one is not normalized. And, and one is looking at a 24 hour window and one is looking at a multiple day when all this stuff, we’re not gonna go into details there, but at the end of the day, I want to ask about the Search Query Performance. At the end of the day, now that you have more of a grasp of what this is doing, how does that affect your PPC strategy? For myself, I actually combine it with Helium 10 a little bit. I’m looking at that impression data, which I believe it’s only gonna show up if you are in the first couple of pages, right?

Bradley Sutton:

And then, so I’m like, my impressions should always be double the search queries, because that means that I’m on page one organically and my ad is probably showing up so that every time somebody enters a search, they should, there, there should be two registering. And then if not, it’s like, okay, well now I need to go into Helium 10 Keyword Tracker and be like, oh, I’m on page three for my sponsored, or I’m on page four for my organic, that must be why I didn’t have doubles. So that’s like one of the ways that I kind of like combine all three data points and then make my strategy. But what about you? What PPC decisions are you making based off of the Search Query Performance report?

Mansour:

Okay, that’s a great question. And I believe Search Query Performance is actually one of the most valuable reports that Amazon released recently. To your point, yes, everyone should go and understand where these data coming from, because people constantly comment that, oh, these numbers are wrong, but no, they are not wrong. They are just being calculated differently. So in terms of how we are using it, one of the use cases that I love it is to check your cannibalization. So before we didn’t have any option to see if this idea of cannibalization happening for our account or not. What you could do now is that you find a relative high related search term. And from search query, you see what’s your impression, share your click share your purchase share. And what you do is that if you wanna do this test, you reduce your spending for that term.

Mansour:

It could be pausing your ad all of a sudden for top of search or no, just reducing your spend. So as you are doing this test, you can go to Search Query Performance and see what is the trend of your purchase share or click share. So if that trend is downward, it means your ad was helpful, and now that you removed your ads, you are seeing less sales. But if you see that your click share, your purchase share is not going down, they are not declining, it means that you were doing cannibalization. So that is one use case that you could do for your related keywords. The second is that what you mentioned, the impression share. If you go over search terms, you find highly related keywords to your product. If your impression share is low, even there’s a number you can divide 1 by 52.

Mansour:

It gives you an idea of if you have one placement on the page, I don’t know what the number would be. We don’t do public math here, but if your number is really low, it means you are getting one placement, or sometimes even you are not getting that one placement, meaning you have to increase in spending for ads to show up more on the first result pages. That’s for impression. Then you go to the click share. Sometimes you might see your impression share is really high, but your click share is low. What does that mean is that you are showing up on the first page, but your ads are not high enough in the page to get the clicks. So yes, you are appearing, but it’s not effective because your ads are addressed of the page may be at the end of the page.

Mansour:

So you are not getting those clicks in that area. What you have to do, if that keyword is really important for you and you wanna show up there, you have to increase your bid to make sure you show up on top of search or at least top half of the page to make sure you are increasing your click share. Then it goes to, one thing that we really use it for is different strategies. So we decide to, for instance, we choose a keyword and we say we wanna do ranking for this keyword. So we, what we do is that we create a single keyword campaign and take the focus to that keyword and analyze the trend of the Search Query Performance to see we are spending on this. Are we increasing collect share? Are we increasing purchase share by the test that we are doing for this keyword or not to measure?

Mansour:

How effective is our strategy with going down to the keyword, with looking at the keyword and checking the click share and purchase share. Then sometimes I might say, you might see high, there are some tricks here that you guys need to understand. I see some comments that people see. Say if your click share, if your purchase share is lower than click share, it means there is this issue with your listing, for instance you have to change your imaging or offers, but no, if you have variance, you have to understand that the cut the Search Query Performance is the funnel from seeing the same product, clicking on the same product and purchasing the same product. So if a customer clicks on the same product and goes to listing by what purchase the variant, you don’t see that purchase in Search Query Performance. So you can’t compare your purchase share with click share. Yes, definitely you can’t see the trend, but never compare your purchase share and see it is lower or higher unless you have a single listing with no variance. Sure a hundred percent you could do that. These are just few of the use cases we do with the strategies.

Bradley Sutton:

Excellent, excellent. So guys like this is something that if you have brand registry you should have access to and you should be looking at it. Just another one of the 75 reasons there are to have brand registry. I mean, there’s almost can’t imagine why some private label seller wouldn’t want brand registry, but there’s definitely all the reasons to do it. So make sure to check this out and then do a search on the Serious Sellers Podcast for our two video deep dive that we did into brand analytics and Search Query Performance. I want to go over the something, some Adtomic things and, and this is a cool thing. Like we all have our different strategy, like maybe Mansour is not using Adtomic, but he has his own strategies, but we can actually take some of those into Adtomic.

Bradley Sutton:

And so like, I’m gonna open up our Project X PPC in Adtomic, and then I want to go over kind of like the rules I have, and I wanna maybe tweak some of my rules to actually be the Incremental Digital kind of rules of, of managing PPC. So let me go ahead and share my screen here. So I’m here in the Adtomic Ad Manager, and by the way, for those watching this on YouTube, I’ve got, this is actually a minor league baseball team called the Albuquerque Isotopes, this hat and shirt. But to me it’s almost identical. Not identical, but it’s like very close to, it makes me think of Adtomic, the Adtomic logos. I’m like, I’m gonna wear this Adtomic. But it’s really a baseball team. You know, we, we don’t have this full lineup of of Adtomic gear here.

Bradley Sutton:

Jake Paulson, who’s watching, probably would’ve wanted to buy it. But anyways, all right. One of the things that we do when we set up a when we set up a campaign in Adtomic, Mansour is we have kind of like rule sets and, and rule groups. So let me just explain to you how I have this set up here. So for usually from day one, depending on the product, I’ll set up an auto campaign for a product. I’ll set up a what we call a research campaign and then ctually, I’m gonna pause it right there. Historically, for my research campaigns, I have always done Broad Match. 2023, what is your suggestion? Cuz you know, some people are like, Hey, now, we gotta go back to Phrase because for the last year or at least last six months or so, Broad is like ridiculously broad. Like Amazon took it to the next level. And unless you’re doing the modifiers, you’re not getting what you know, 2021 broad used to be. What’s your suggestion there? Are you still using broad or are you doing phrase or are you doing that modifier thing?

Mansour:

For the launch process, we always start just with Exact, and our reason is that we want to send the signal to Amazon what our product is, what we are related to, because we believe that yes, Amazon knows to some extent your product with issue optimization, putting them in keywords in your title, but the reality is that it’s a machine learning, it doesn’t know everything about your product. So what we do, we try to feed this algorithm for learning more about our product and being more precise. So if we start with highly related keywords that you want to rank, we want to index for exact for at least two weeks. From there, we start slowly expanding to auto and other match types. So that is how we do definitely we start with exact until the time we see, okay, our ranking is improving, it’s a good time to expand to other match types, but from week two we start out of close match and substitute.

Mansour:

We start from week two. In terms of, as a general rule, yes, we are still using Broad, actually, I posted this on LinkedIn and one Amazon reps reached out by email to us that, no, this post is not correct. You, you are making a mistake. Broad always has been like this. And we sent screenshots that, here it is, our results in January. Here it is in December. This isn’t, you haven’t changed the behavior of Broad. It’s yes for Sponsored Brand used to be like that. We have no issue and argue there, but for sponsored product, the behavior has changed and it’s a huge deal. I’ll give you one example. Let’s say you are targeting branded term in your Broad in the campaign as a Broad. Go look at your search term guys.

Mansour:

You might see you are targeting all those search terms that being triggered and they are not branded because now brand now Broad Match is so broad that you are triggering everything except branded terms. So I would say it becomes really important if you’re targeting branded, don’t use broad at all. Use Broad Match Modifier. And to be honest, I haven’t checked to see broad match modifier works in sponsored product or not. I set up a campaign, I’m not sure yet. I haven’t changed the search term to make sure it’s behaves the same as a sponsored brand. But make sure about branded don’t use broad because it’s not branded campaign anymore. In terms of auto campaigns, it is a judgment call. You gotta see the campaign. If you see it is working, you have no issue, don’t touch what it is working. But in for some of our campaigns, we go there, we see we are wasting money and the resources exactly, because this new behavior of broad, in that case, I would say go change it to Broad Match Modifier.

Bradley Sutton:

All right, so now with that in mind, let’s go back to what I was saying here. Let’s just, maybe this is not launched. Let’s just say this is like I’ve been selling for a couple months. But anyways, how I set it up, I set up auto campaign. I have a performance campaign, which is like my exact manual campaign. And then I have the research campaign, which could be broad with broad modifier, it could be phrase and then depending on the brand and if it’s appropriate, I’ll also have a sponsored display campaign, and I’ll have a product targeting campaign, just an ASIN targeting campaign. Now here’s how I have it set up in Adtomic. What I do is I have them kind of talking to each other.

Bradley Sutton:

So basically if the Auto campaign or the Research campaign, since that those are not specific targets, they might discover other keywords. You know, I didn’t realize how I set it up is I say, Hey, if I get two orders in an auto or a broad campaign or a phrase campaign, and I have 30% ACoS or less, obviously there’s no one answer fits all one size, fits all, then I want Adtomic to suggest to me, Hey, you should put this, if it’s an ASIN, if it’s a product put it or a product, put it into the sponsor display campaign and put it into the product targeting campaign. If it’s a search term, stick that into the exact campaign if I wasn’t already targeting it and potentially put it into that phrase match or broad match to see if there’s any longer tail versions of that keyword. So let me just stop right there. What about, like, is there any part of that that you would modify or are you doing differently?

Mansour:

No, we are not doing anything differently. Actually, that’s a great approach and what I personally do is that any search sharing that is performing, I will relaunch it in exact phrase and broad in all match types. Okay. About broad go for a broad match and but we will launch them in all match types is great. And can you also take it to the Sponsored Brand?

Bradley Sutton:

Yes, we can, but this particular window, I think this brand, I only have a couple of products, so I didn’t make a Sponsored Brand Campaign, but some of them I have, I have Sponsored Video, I don’t have a video for this, so that would be also for sure. Would you take that good performing keyword and put it in a Sponsored Video ad as well. So there’s that. Now what about what I had said about the, the two being the threshold, is that kinda like what you guys do? Like, some people go extremely like, Hey, I just want one conversion and I’m gonna do it. Some people are like, no, I need at least three or four. I kind of pick two. What do you feel about that?

Mansour:

I would go for three. Three because yeah, from experience we see that two is not enough to make sure that keyword will convert in the future, but also about the ACoS, not necessarily, we are just looking at the keywords that performing under our target ACoS, because the way we look at it is that let’s say your target ACoS here is 30, but this keyword search share performing at 40-45. Sure. The way we look at it is that we can optimize that target, bring the bit down and perform okay with the yeah, target.

Bradley Sutton:

So then should I leave this blank or, or just raise it to like way above what I would normally do, knowing that I would optimize it later.

Mansour:

Yes, I would raise it for instance, for let’s say 40-45. But you have to make sure that you gotta optimize this.

Bradley Sutton:

Yeah

Mansour:

Right.

Bradley Sutton:

Okay. Perfect. All right. And then do you do that? That’s something we have the option for, but I never suggested do you do search term isolation in that as soon as you know, you’re moving it from auto to these others, you, you negative match an auto? Personally, I don’t.

Mansour:

Great question. No, and I don’t recommend it at all. There are different thought process here, but, and my reasoning is that there are so many placements. First and every campaign, Exact, Phrase, and Broad will be triggered in different placements. The issue with isolation is that let’s say you have a search term performing in one campaign, then you negated it. First of all, you have to understand is that you’re blocking that campaign, so you are not gonna see the same results they are. It’s not going to get triggered. You move that to a new campaign, there is a high chance of not seeing the same performance. And the reason is that Amazon does the machine learning in campaign level. So when you create, it’s not in account level or in product level, it’s in campaign level. So when you create a fresh and new campaign, it needs to learn again from the zero.

Mansour:

So it’s gonna put your product in different placements until gaining to the point that, okay, these are the placements, this product is working. So you are not transitioning that machine learning from the old campaign that has the history and knows your products, what placements for this term’s working. Now you have a new campaign that Amazon needs to learn. I’m not saying it’s not gonna reach to that performance, but it might take time to reach to that performance. If it is working, let it work in the original campaign also launched in new campaign, there are so many placements, don’t think that, oh, you have to a hundred percent isolate everything and kind of filter, bring the funnel the traffic to one campaign.

Bradley Sutton:

Okay. That’s very, very helpful. The other question is like obviously if the campaigns are have been there for a while, you know it’s gonna find a lot of keywords and I might have already had exact manual keywords that I was talking, what is your cap for exact campaigns before you’re like, all right, I’m gonna not shut it down, but let me go now to, you know I’m going to funnel the new keywords I discovered to a new exact campaign. Like, is it 5, is it 10, is it 50? Some people go crazy and just say, I only have one keyword target per campaign. What is your strategy there?

Mansour:

So I’m not a fan of one for every term. And my reason is that if you go single keyword campaign for all your terms, you are gonna have trouble managing your budget because you need budget for every campaign. So you are gonna get to that issue of managing your budget. And from the other side, the cap that we put is around 15 to 20 max. So the way we look at it, if the keyword is highly related, high search volume keyword, we go for one, depending on how important the keyword is, if it is mid search volume, keyword related keyword, we go to three to five and we move on by search volume and how important the keyword is. Our max, I would say is 15 to 20. We have actually, when we launch campaigns for our clients, we have one core campaign that has different ad type ad groups, exact phrase, broad, and it’s just for research purpose. As what you are doing here, as we are expanding, we finding the performing keywords, we expand to new campaigns. We don’t go more than 15 to 20. So it starts from one to 15 to 20.

Bradley Sutton:

Okay, perfect. Now moving to the negative side I set up rules so that Adtomic will spit to me suggestions. You know, what we were talking about is the promotion side or the positive side, like, hey, finding keywords, what do I do with it? What should Adtomic suggest to me? But on the negative side, I’m able to put rules here where it’s like, Hey, if I get X number of clicks or X number of spend, and again, there’s no one number that fits everybody, let’s just make that clear. Then Adtomic will suggest to me to negative match this search term or potentially the target. So I put here on this particular one, I don’t even remember what this was, egg tray or something 20 clicks. And then the, the, I think the retail price of this was $30 on this product. And so sometimes I go half, like, I’ll be like, all right, cuz sometimes there might be a really expensive keyword and so I need to get more clicks, understand it. Or sometimes there might be just like a really cheap keyword. So I put a $15 spend. What are kind of your thoughts on what makes you want to negate a a search term?

Mansour:

Well, I think the approach you have here is on point, and there are different factors that impact when we want to negate. One is the data, the other is the spend that you want to do. And finally it is how related that keyword it’s to your product or not. If the keyword is not related, which no rule can define that, sure, right? You might get two clicks, but the keyword is not related right away you get it. In terms of clicks, number of clicks, it goes back. I always work by conversion rate. If I see my products as a 10% conversion rate, it means after 10 clicks I should get one sales, right? But when it comes to PPC, the conversion rate in PPC always is less, let’s say if it is a listing, conversion rate is 10% for PPC, usually it is six 7% in terms of the conversion rate, which that translates to 15-16 clicks. So what I would do is that, and you mentioned it is your suggesting, right? It’s not going and implementing it just suggests to use.

Bradley Sutton:

Yeah, I mean we have that as an option in Adtomic to just automate it, but personally I’m like a control freak when it comes to PPC. So like, I wanna at least be given the opportunity to say yes or no. Because there’s some times where I might not do, even though I’m the one who set up these rules, like if there’s a keyword where like, hey, I mean I’m willing to lose money on some keywords because I just have to conquest that coffin shelf. Like I, I have to be number one for coffin shelf cuz this competitor’s doing something crazy campaign right now. So like, I understand I’m gonna lose money. So I personally don’t automate it, but yeah, at least it’ll tell me, Hey, this came up, implement yes or no, and I’ll just hit yes or no.

Mansour:

Right. That’s a great approach. I love it. And so I would say a 10% listing for PPC, let’s say it’s a 6% because it’s always list. I would say that after 16 click, show me that keyword. And the reason I’m going with conversion rate is that we know there is a direct relationship between PPC and your organic ranking. So if for a keyword, your conversion rate is bad, you will see that translates itself in organic ranking. Your organic ranking will might hurt. So I personally, I’m not a big fan of negation. I try to do that with bid optimization. So what we do is that we decrease the bid until if you are not converting until you appear in a place that you are not getting maybe that much clicks, that impacts negatively. And I don’t have anything against negating unless if you negate a related keyword, you have to circle back to that keyword later.

Mansour:

And the reason is that the competition is changing. Your offer is changing, your reviews is changing some things that is not converting. Now, it doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t convert in the future. So if you negate, go back, try them, put them in a campaign, see what the results are in the future, then your offer when the market is changing. So in terms of the number of clicks if you wanna negate, there is no rule depends to your product. What is your conversion rate and what do you think PPC conversion rate should be? I would say like roughly 70% of your listing, conversion rate and spend is really an important factor because we see this happen. Managers just trusting to the clicks and don’t looking at cost per click and spend that we are having for that keyword. So all of a sudden you have a product, 30 bucks, you have spent 30 bucks, it might be even seven clicks, right? You haven’t reached that threshold, but you need to do something, either decrease your bid or get a notification as you say as you said in Adtomic that there is something like this happening now as a manager, it’s your judgment called do you wanna negate it or do whatever you wanna do. So it is, I we would do the same. Okay. Looking at clicks and the spend.

Bradley Sutton:

All right, let, let’s get to some user questions now. We’ve got Jonathan from YouTube says, do you agree that before running PPC you should optimize your listings for, I don’t think anybody would say no. But the second part here, making sure the listing has at least a four star rating. Like, I don’t know, me personally, I’m doing PPC from day, I mean, I can’t even get reviews if nobody has my product. So but then I guess I do hear some people say, oh, like I’m not gonna start PPC until I get you know, some reviews. But to me it’s like a chicken or the egg like how, how, how do you have one with the other? What what are your thoughts on this question?

Mansour:

Same approach as you. We run PPC from day one for many reasons. You have the honeymoon, you wanna push, bring the traffic convert. And I understand your point, Jonathan, because you are saying, I don’t have any reviews how people would purchase, but there are other ways that you can make your offering appealing. First of all, of course you should have a good product if you don’t have a good product and you don’t think you are gonna convert and what’s the point of launching that product? But the second is that the best way I see is by bringing your price down. So giving that people that idea of, okay, even if it is bad, well, and keep that in mind, the returning on Amazon is really easy. So customers don’t mind as long as they see a good product. And since you don’t have review, just bring your pricing down, give a huge good discount, you’ll see that customers will start purchasing even with zero review. So start from day one.

Bradley Sutton:

Yeah, I agree. Let me go to some more questions here. Let’s see. Alright, from YouTube. Limbesh says, what do we do if 90% of our sales are from PPC only, and it’s been like this for six months.

Mansour:

It means you’ll have organic visibility issue and I would say if you 90% of sales coming from PPC, instead of just focusing on bringing sales through PPC, you have to focus on finding potential keywords that you can drive your budget toward those keywords to improve organic ranking. So your first and your priority here should be improve your organic ranking. I don’t wanna go to the details here. You have to find the higher keywords that you have the potential CPR from. A server is a great place to look at what those potential keywords are and put your budget in exact match with your campaigns toward that, start converting with PPC and you will see your organic rank improvement.

Bradley Sutton:

Excellent. This is from Jake. Looks like he’s watching on YouTube says, this is like a while back you were talking, I believe about, we were talking about the launch part of PPC. So you’re saying that you feel it’s better to narrowly target search terms when launching to get your snowball rolling in the right direction before helping it grow?

Mansour:

Yes, definitely. And we have seen time and time that the results comes, and I always, when I talk about this, the way I explain this is just think as Amazon as a machine learning. You are feeding Amazon with the signals that you have. So you are targeting a keyword and if the keyword, you’re bringing the sales for that keywords, you are converting good for that keyword, you are telling signaling Amazon that, look I’m doing great job for this product, for this keyword. So Amazon will reward you with giving you better organic ranking. The only things that you have to consider is that what are those keywords? Don’t go right away after high search volume keywords because no matter how much signal you give since the search value, the search volume the sales volume for that keyword is high. You can’t reach that. Find Longtail keywords, medium search keywords, highly related, look at the cpr, how many sales they generate over seven, eight days. See if you can generate closely to that number, start targeting them and slowly expand because as you target these keywords, do you see better ranking? You can move on your, with your budget to more search terms with hydro sexuality keywords.

Bradley Sutton:

Okay, next one from Jahleel. It’s a two-part question here. It says, the first part says if I have a campaign with 30 plus keywords, but I see that one of the keywords is driving 85% of the traffic. If I move it to its own campaign, will the performance of the ISO campaign not be as good as the original because of campaign relevancy? Or does that not matter as much in this case? If I put the bid the same?

Mansour:

So I would say if a keyword driving 85% of the result, instead of moving that keyword, keep the campaign with the same keyword, move the other terms that bringing 50%, it’s not a huge number. But what you will do with this is that first of all, you are giving for the other terms. When they are combined with this higher search volume keyword, they’re not getting to their full potential. They can’t get enough permission because all the budget goes to the high search volume keyword. Keep that keyword where it is, move the other keywords to a new campaigns. And actually in this case you might see better results because now they are starting to get some impressions, bring more data, and you again, you start feeding the machine learning and you will see that results come.

Bradley Sutton:

Here’s a question. What’s the best course to learn PPC professionally for my clients? Cuz I’m a Google partner. Well, there’s a couple op, there’s a few options out there. If you’re already a Helium 10 member Huns and you have a Diamond account, you have access to our PPC Academy course that you can take. So just log into your Helium 10 account and you’ll be able to see PPC Academy there. Incrementun, do you guys also have PPC courses on?

Mansour:

Yeah, we have lunch. Amazon Advertising Academy. Yeah, it is from zero for someone that knows nothing about even Amazon to making you a professional to that 90% because there is you learning because constantly there are updates right at the moment it is closed, but we will reopen it sometimes this year.

Bradley Sutton:

Again, here’s one that I can probably take and then also Mansour, about how to identify which keywords and search terms are getting most of the sales and the bleeding keywords and search terms. So if you’re using Adtomic you just go to your analytics page and then look at search terms and then I just personally sort by spend and I say, oh wow, coffin Shelf is, is getting the number one keyword that’s generating sales, but then I can instantly look and it’s obvious that I don’t pay much attention to what I’m doing here be because obviously I’m not into my Amazon account, but look at this, I’ve been just letting this egg cartons, this, this would be what he called a, what did he say? The bleeding keyword for sure. Spending $65 and only getting $23, but it of sales.

Bradley Sutton:

But that’s here in Adtomic. If you don’t have access to the tool, you can get this by downloading your search term reports from from Seller Central. But yeah, for those of you who are wondering what screenshots I was showing, this is Adtomic. So if you got need more information on that h10me/adtomic, h10me/adtomic. Now, one thing we do on the regular podcast episodes, which is actually this is gonna be reposted to our podcast, is we ask our guests to give us what we call SST 60-second tip. So you’ve been answering questions today, you’ve been giving us a lot of strategies, but what is something that we haven’t talked about today? Just a general strategy or could be specific, it could be about PPC, could be about anything. It could be about how to find good food in Canada, which sometimes I don’t I struggle to do. But what is a 62nd strategy you can give our guests today?

Mansour:

So 60-second strategy is that don’t try to get fancy and too complicated when you are managing your Amazon advertising. First, focus on fundamentals, which are good segmentation for your good keyword research. First, make sure you are doing a great job in doing keyword research. Next, doing segmentation for your campaigns. Don’t stuff everything in one campaign. Do the segmentation based on that launch your campaign bid optimization negation, and kind of going into diversifying in all ad types based on what is working from searcher reports. So I, I see some people gets, they get really fancy, they wanna see different reports, the sales score performance and everything before they have tackled that fundamentals of their Amazon advertising. So focus the 80%-20% rule is your foundation.

Bradley Sutton:

Excellent. Excellent. So this is great. How can people find you out there on LinkedIn and other places? If you can spell out your full name?

Mansour:

You could find me on LinkedIn. I am most active on LinkedIn sending Post most regularly and Mansour Norouzi. I don’t know if my name is here or not. Mansour Norouzi, search for that. And you could find me there and hopefully you can get some insights from my post.

Bradley Sutton:

Let me see if I can throw up your name. There we go. Mansour Norouzi for those who are just listening to this and can’t see the screen. Alright, well this has been very helpful. It’s been awesome you lending your, your knowledge. And guys, again, don’t forget you, you can get the services of Incrementum Digital by going to hub.helium10.com and go searching for Incrementum Digital and then manure’s team will be able to help you out. So thank you very much and next year let’s bring you back and let’s talk about all the new things that I’m sure Amazon is gonna release in the in the next in the next year or so.

Mansour:

A hundred percent. And thank you so much for having me again. It was a great discussion.

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