Amazon Legends Podcast
Raiders of The Lost Amazon Keywords - Nisan Bal - Amazon Legends - Episode # 147
22 Sep 2022
Most people know about optimizing your title, bullets, and A-plus content to include keywords, but today’s guest knows how to find hidden keyword fields that can push your listing up the rankings. Nisan Bal is the Head of Amazon Advertising at Seller Interactive and has over a decade of experience in all aspects of E-commerce. Nisan shines a light on the challenges of selling on Amazon internationally, the additional ways to add important keywords to your listing, and how you need to track and use your KPIs from Amazon. Takeaways:Selling through Amazon in different international markets that happen to speak the same language is not as easy as copying and pasting the listing from one market to another. For example, a listing for cookies in the US would need very different keywords than if you were selling the same product in the UK. While both markets are predominantly English-speaking, there are many differences between each market’s dialect. Your backend search terms are extremely important for Amazon’s algorithm. While the customer will not see these terms, they are still indexed by Amazon and can make a big difference, even if you’ve already optimized the rest of your listing. To access your backend search terms, start in Seller Central, go to your inventory page, and select Edit Listing. There you will find one field for keywords that allows up to 250 characters per listing. When adding keywords, you don’t need to separate each term with commas, just a space is enough. For longtail keywords, you will need to hyphenate the terms. Mercifully, Amazon does not count those spaces against your 250-character limit. If you aren’t filling out the 50 characters of space that you have for alt text on each image in your A-plus content, you are missing out on valuable real estate that could be helping your search rankings. You can use a space to separate these keywords as well.At a base level, you should be tracking your Amazon KPIs weekly and analyzing the trends in the data so that you can make informed decisions to grow your business. Quote of the Show:“Analyzing that trend, that's the most important thing. Just looking at it for the last 30 days, you can't make any judgment there unless you know, “Okay, where was I 30 days before that?”” - Nisan BalLinks:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nisanbal/Email: [email protected] website: https://sellerinteractive.com/Company website: https://linktr.ee/outgiveWays to Tune In:Apple Podcast (Leave a Review)iHeart RadioPodchaser (Leave a Review)Amazon MusicAudibleSpotifyGoogle PodcastYouTubeAmazon Legends is sponsored by Argometrix, the authority on, and leading supplier of, competitive intelligence for online retail. Learn more
No persons identified in this episode.
This episode hasn't been transcribed yet
Help us prioritize this episode for transcription by upvoting it.
Popular episodes get transcribed faster
Other recent transcribed episodes
Transcribed and ready to explore now
#2425 - Ethan Hawke
11 Dec 2025
The Joe Rogan Experience
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO
10 Dec 2025
Bloomberg Tech
Don’t Call It a Comeback
10 Dec 2025
Motley Fool Money
Japan Claims AGI, Pentagon Adopts Gemini, and MIT Designs New Medicines
10 Dec 2025
The Daily AI Show
Eric Larsen on the emergence and potential of AI in healthcare
10 Dec 2025
McKinsey on Healthcare
What it will take for AI to scale (energy, compute, talent)
10 Dec 2025
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View