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Michael Hartman speaks on ranking organically.
- Using ‘push campaigns’ for two years
- 3-4 campaigns on single keywords doing broad, exact and phrase doing different bid allotments under each one
- On certain campaigns the broad will perform better, others the phrase will be better and others the exact will perform better
- This gives the exact cost of what’s needed and pause the least performing so not losing as much
- Don’t do ‘just’ exact as noticed when doing the broad and the phase it is growing the long tails drastically
- If you can grow the long tails it pushes up your main keyword
- Low comp. rank in few days, medium in 3 weeks and high competition still needs launch strategy
Shared Ranking Love to Long Tail Keywords
- Difficult to do this method when you have multiple variations
- The broad and the phrase help with the main keyword because of the variations on the search term they become the longer tail of the main keyword
- Put a product on the Amazon marketplace and it has no history
- When you do the exact match with a single keyword and get a load of other keywords and put them in the tracker on day one
- They are in the 300 range
- When sales come in on the exact match keyword you find the longer tail versions also start ranking as well
Push the Three PPC Pillars
- Spending money on broad and phrase match is good for discovery
- Danny’s method just uses the marketplace tools with Amazon data to get search volume and relevance of the keywords as benchmark for conversion history
- Michael’s pushing the long tail and all three pillars which pushes it up faster for more conversions and clicks, traffic is better
- Launching it harder
- Can’t spend $100/200/day push them into the long tails where the broad and the phrase come in
- Danny gets traction by doing Facebook giveaways with 90% discount for the keyword on the storefront url to get traction
Variations Launching
- Launching with 27 variations
- Throw all the variations into one push campaign for a week and see what Amazon defines as the best variation
- Which has the best ACoS, most sales and best conversion rate
- Take that variation out and put into its own campaign to push for ranking organically
- PPC sales around 60% of overall sales with ACoS of 40%
- ACoS will drop down to 10% on some that are active a longer time
- Newer campaigns are 60-70% and whittle down over time
- Launching these with no reviews
Converting
- Drop the price
- Plus do a voucher with an amount off (not a % off)
- Gives you the orange tick on the search pages
- Look at average price of the page and bring it below market value
- You’ve got the premium product but selling at 20% less
- Even without reviews was converting every sixth click
- As reviews are coming in got down to every three clicks without changing the price
- Then taper off the bids and reduce
- Start at 95% sales are PPC and then taper off to start to bring the ACoS down and bringing up the price
- Good way to test if the price will stick as the price goes up and keep your sales for profitability
Clean Beta Account
- Beta account in-house used to test strategies and show clients the seller legend data and walk them through the ranking and no reviews with PPC only, no giveaways
- Keep this account as white hat as possible for ranking organically
- Don’t know what Amazon is doing so keeping it clean and long-term
Tracking & Tools
- On certain keywords will leave the campaigns running and using tools to monitor for ranking organically
- ASIN spy for keywords and best seller badge
- Using Helium10 too
- Maintain targets but trim down PPC and if it affects ranking then put it back
- Some keywords need to spend $50 / day or lose $500/day
Michael’s Approach to Ranking Organically
- Doing 4 campaigns
- Doing same keyword with broad, phrase and exact
- Different bids with different bid increments in those
- funneling from there those campaigns
- Only having either Broad, Phrase or Exact in one campaign and keeping three out of the four and scaling it big time
- When it reaches target then trim back on bids, if profitable then let it run