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Negative keywords are how you plug that leak. Most sellers know the feature exists and still never open the search term report. Here&#8217;s how to actually use it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"exb-toc exb-fade\">\n<h4>Is Guide Mein<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#what-a-negative-keyword-does\">What a Negative Keyword Does<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#negative-exact-vs-negative-phrase\">Negative Exact vs Negative Phrase<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#where-to-find-negative-keyword-candidates\">Where to Find Negative Keyword Candidates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#the-weekly-ritual\">The Weekly Ritual<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#campaign-level-vs-ad-group-level-negatives\">Campaign-Level vs Ad-Group-Level Negatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#common-mistakes\">Common Mistakes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#a-starting-list-worth-adding-today\">A Starting List Worth Adding Today<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#the-payoff\">The Payoff<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"exb-h2\" id=\"what-a-negative-keyword-does\">What a Negative Keyword Does<\/h2>\n<p>A negative keyword tells Amazon &#8220;never show my ad for this search term,&#8221; at the campaign or ad-group level. It doesn&#8217;t lower your bid or your budget \u2014 it removes the impression entirely for that specific search.<\/p>\n<p>This matters most on <strong>broad and phrase match<\/strong> campaigns, and on <strong>auto campaigns<\/strong>, because both are designed to cast a wide net on purpose. That net catches irrelevant searches along with relevant ones, and negative keywords are the only way to narrow it after the fact.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"exb-h2\" id=\"negative-exact-vs-negative-phrase\">Negative Exact vs Negative Phrase<\/h2>\n<p>This is the one distinction that trips people up, and getting it wrong either under-blocks or over-blocks your traffic.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"exb-check exb-fade\">\n<li><strong>Negative exact<\/strong> blocks only that precise search term. Adding <code>-cheap phone case<\/code> as negative exact blocks &#8220;cheap phone case&#8221; but still lets through &#8220;cheap phone cases for iphone.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Negative phrase<\/strong> blocks the search term <em>and<\/em> anything containing it in that order. Adding <code>-cheap phone case<\/code> as negative phrase blocks &#8220;cheap phone case,&#8221; &#8220;cheap phone case for iphone,&#8221; and &#8220;buy cheap phone case online.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Default to negative exact when you&#8217;re not sure.<\/strong> Negative phrase is a wider net and it&#8217;s easy to accidentally block a variation that would have converted. We only reach for negative phrase when a whole theme of searches \u2014 not one term \u2014 is clearly wrong for the listing.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"exb-h2\" id=\"where-to-find-negative-keyword-candidates\">Where to Find Negative Keyword Candidates<\/h2>\n<p>Pull the <strong>Search Term Report<\/strong> from Campaign Manager (or Search Query Performance for a broader view). Sort by spend, descending. You&#8217;re looking for terms with:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"exb-check exb-fade\">\n<li>Meaningful spend (enough clicks that it isn&#8217;t just noise) and <strong>zero orders in 30+ days<\/strong> \u2014 the clearest, safest negative<\/li>\n<li>Clicks but conversions far below your account average, on a term that&#8217;s semantically irrelevant to the listing<\/li>\n<li>Terms containing a <strong>competitor brand name<\/strong> you don&#8217;t want to pay to appear against, unless you&#8217;re deliberately running a conquesting campaign<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Terms with spend but <em>some<\/em> conversions are a judgment call, not an automatic negative \u2014 check the ACoS on that specific term against your break-even before cutting it.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"exb-h2\" id=\"the-weekly-ritual\">The Weekly Ritual<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"exb-steps exb-fade\" style=\"counter-reset:exbstep 0\">\n<li><strong>Pull the search term report<\/strong> for the past 30-60 days, filtered to the campaign you&#8217;re reviewing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sort by spend descending<\/strong>, and scan the top 20-30 rows first \u2014 that&#8217;s where most of the waste concentrates.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flag zero-order terms with 3+ clicks<\/strong> as negative-exact candidates.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flag irrelevant themes<\/strong> (wrong product type, wrong price tier, competitor names) as negative-phrase candidates if the whole theme is off.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Add negatives at the ad-group level<\/strong> if the term is wrong for one ad group but might be fine elsewhere in the campaign; add at the <strong>campaign level<\/strong> if it&#8217;s wrong everywhere.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Re-check the same report in a week.<\/strong> New irrelevant terms surface constantly, especially on auto and broad-match campaigns \u2014 this isn&#8217;t a one-time cleanup, it&#8217;s a standing habit.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This single ritual, done consistently, is usually the highest-ROI thing you can do in an Amazon PPC account. On accounts that have never run it, we typically see 10-20% of spend recovered in the first month with zero drop in sales \u2014 because none of that spend was buying sales to begin with.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"exb-h2\" id=\"campaign-level-vs-ad-group-level-negatives\">Campaign-Level vs Ad-Group-Level Negatives<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"exb-check exb-fade\">\n<li><strong>Campaign-level negatives<\/strong> apply across every ad group inside that campaign. Use these for terms that are wrong everywhere \u2014 a completely unrelated product category, for instance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ad-group-level negatives<\/strong> apply only within one ad group. Use these when a term is a poor match for one specific ad group&#8217;s products but might still be relevant to a different ad group in the same campaign \u2014 for example, &#8220;kids phone case&#8221; is a bad match in your adult-design ad group but a perfectly good keyword in a separate kids-design ad group in the same campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Getting this wrong in the campaign-wide direction is the most common mistake \u2014 sellers negative a term at the campaign level that was actually converting fine in a different ad group, and quietly kill traffic they wanted.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"exb-h2\" id=\"common-mistakes\">Common Mistakes<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"exb-check exb-fade\">\n<li><strong>Negating too aggressively on gut feel<\/strong> instead of data. If a term has clicks but no orders yet with fewer than 3-5 clicks, that&#8217;s not enough data \u2014 wait before cutting it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Negative-phrasing when negative-exact would do.<\/strong> This is how sellers accidentally block a converting long-tail search because it happened to contain a &#8220;bad&#8221; word.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Never reviewing auto campaigns.<\/strong> Auto campaigns generate the widest range of search terms and need the most frequent negative-keyword attention, but sellers often set them up once and never look again.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Forgetting to harvest before you negate.<\/strong> A converting term buried in an auto or broad campaign should be <strong>promoted to an exact-match campaign<\/strong> before you tighten the broad one around it \u2014 don&#8217;t just cut waste, capture the winners too. More on that structure in our <a href=\"\/blogs\/amazon-auto-vs-manual-campaigns-hybrid-strategy\/\">auto vs manual hybrid guide<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"exb-h2\" id=\"a-starting-list-worth-adding-today\">A Starting List Worth Adding Today<\/h2>\n<p>Even before your first search term report, these are worth pre-empting on most accounts:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"exb-check exb-fade\">\n<li>Your own brand name misspellings you don&#8217;t already own as keywords<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Free,&#8221; &#8220;cheap,&#8221; &#8220;used,&#8221; &#8220;refurbished&#8221; \u2014 if you sell a premium or new-only product<\/li>\n<li>Direct competitor brand names, unless you&#8217;re intentionally running a conquesting play<\/li>\n<li>Wildly mismatched sizes, colours, or variants you don&#8217;t stock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"exb-h2\" id=\"the-payoff\">The Payoff<\/h2>\n<p>Negative keywords don&#8217;t grow your sales \u2014 they redirect spend that was never going to become a sale toward the spend that will. Run the weekly ritual for a month and check your <a href=\"https:\/\/ecomexpert.co.in\/roi-calculator\">ROI calculator<\/a> numbers before and after; the difference is usually visible within the first cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Want your search term report reviewed for free? WhatsApp <strong>+91 92113 84333<\/strong> with your seller account details and we&#8217;ll show you your top wasted-spend terms before you commit to anything. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/ecomexpert.co.in\/amazon-ppc-services\">Amazon PPC management<\/a> runs this ritual weekly on every client account.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related: <a href=\"\/blogs\/how-to-lower-amazon-acos-without-losing-sales\/\">How to Lower Amazon ACoS Without Losing Sales Volume<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/blogs\/amazon-auto-vs-manual-campaigns-hybrid-strategy\/\">Auto vs Manual Campaigns: The Hybrid Strategy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"exb-cta exb-fade\">\n<h3>Free Search Term Report Review<\/h3>\n<p>WhatsApp <strong>+91 92113 84333<\/strong> with your seller account details and we will show you your top wasted-spend terms before you commit to anything.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"exb-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/919211384333?text=Hi%2C%20please%20review%20my%20Amazon%20search%20term%20report%20for%20wasted%20spend.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#128172; WhatsApp +91 92113 84333<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script>\n(function(){if(!('IntersectionObserver'in window))return;var io=new IntersectionObserver(function(es){es.forEach(function(e){if(e.isIntersecting){e.target.classList.add('exb-in');io.unobserve(e.target);}});},{threshold:.12});document.querySelectorAll('.exb-fade').forEach(function(el){io.observe(el);});})();\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon PPC&#9201; 8 min read&#9997; EcomExpert Team Every Amazon PPC account leaks money to search terms that will never convert \u2014 a shopper looking for &#8220;waterproof phone case&#8221; clicking your regular phone case ad, or someone searching a competitor&#8217;s brand name landing on yours. 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