An article to understand the necessary path for Amazon sellers to operate

An article to understand the necessary path for Amazon sellers to operate

Traffic--Conversion Rate--Ranking
At present, the survival model of the entire Amazon is mainly determined by three factors, and the ranking is related to traffic. This is a cycle. When you do Amazon, you have to see whether you are doing a vicious cycle or a virtuous cycle. If you can achieve a virtuous cycle, then your ranking will rise quickly, and after the ranking goes up, your traffic will naturally increase.


For Amazon sellers, to a certain extent, traffic equals sales volume and profit. Without traffic, no matter how superb the operational skills are, they are all in vain.
1. Related traffic
The two major components of Amazon's on-site traffic are associated traffic and search traffic. When a user clicks on a search product to enter the listing page, the Amazon recommended products displayed are the associated traffic of the product.
The most direct type of associated traffic is actually the associated sales on Amazon. Common types include: Frequently bought together, Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought, Compare to similar items, etc.
If your product is associated with hot-selling and top-ranked products, traffic will naturally and actively come to your product page.
Frequently bought together (FBT for short) is automatically generated by Amazon based on buyers’ purchasing habits. The stronger the correlation, the more likely it is to lead to an order.
Generally complementary products will appear here, sometimes bundled with your own products, and sometimes with other sellers’ products.
How does this connection come about?
(1) A buyer purchased product A and product B. After this purchase occurs multiple times, Amazon will associate them together to form a purchase combination. (If it occurs more than 6 times, it is more likely to appear in FBT)
Products A and B are mostly complementary products or similar products, and there must be a direct correlation between the two. It is not necessary to buy A and B at the same time. If you buy A this month and B next month, this is also a combination purchase action with the same weight.
(2) Add products A and B to the shopping cart together. This action will result in a combination purchase if it occurs multiple times.

How to artificially achieve combination purchase?


· Set up bundled sales: If you buy two together, you can get a discount, for example, buy a refrigerator and a socket together, or buy a mobile phone and a film together. Sellers use fake orders to find different buyers to buy in combination. After many times, their own products will be bought in combination with other popular products. Don't bundle too many products in the listing, distinguish the primary and the secondary, and don't put the cart before the horse. The price of the main product is higher than the product to be bundled.


Frequently clicking back and forth between two listings using different IP addresses to form a combination association can work in the short term, but if few people actually buy the products after it takes effect, they will soon be replaced by products that are actually purchased together.


Find buyers who have bought the best-selling products before, and use preferential means to get them to buy your products. This is a buying and buying behavior. If this action is repeated many times, it will appear in Customers who bought this item also bought. When this action is accumulated many times, it will be included in Frequently bought together.


Regarding Customers who bought this item also bought, many sellers do not know the traffic of all Amazon-related products of their ASINs, which ones have a high correlation and more traffic, and whose product traffic is better to piggyback on, and are unable to accurately obtain effective related traffic.

Looking at cross-selling from the perspective of consumers


Taking "cross-selling" as an example, let's look at several methods of cross-selling from the perspective of "consumers":
1. Recommendation at the top of the product page : Apart from setting the lowest price, we have little control over this column;
2. Variant association : Since the ASIN Hijack violation last year, basically no one dares to try this method again;
3. Follow-up sales : Needless to say, everyone hates it;
4. New product/Vendor advertising association : If you have a VC or VE account, you may want to try it and see the effect for yourself;
5. Related purchase (check the box) : Which buyer will buy the same product from three Amazon sellers at the same time? Anyone who has tried this feature, which is known as "shua order", should know how effective it is.
6. Related purchases (sliding window item): It is estimated that 10% of sellers will take a look, but the actual conversion rate is minimal;
7. Advertisement recommendation : Which buyer likes to see ads on the product page? You can think about it and know if there is CTR or Conversion rate.

8. Comparison and recommendation : This is the most important column for several reasons:


This column is above the product description, which shows that Amazon attaches great importance to the conversion rate of this column.


The color and layout of this column are more eye-catching than any of the related sales items analyzed above;


Only 4 products are compared in this column, and the CTR (click-through rate) is significantly higher than the advertisement (the headphone advertisement column analyzed here has 7 products in each column, a total of 13 columns, which means a total of 91 products in the advertisement)


2. Amazon Flash Sales

Why did Amazon launch Flash Sales? What are the specific advantages?


Marketing - We often run flash sales on the Amazon promotions page, which is one of the most visited pages on Amazon. In addition, flash sales products are marked in search results.


Chain Reaction — A flash sale may continue to drive searches and sales during and after the flash sale event.


Overstock or end-of-season sales — Flash sales are a great way to sell current FBA inventory.


Amazon flash sales generally include: Best Deal (BD), Lighting Deals (LD), Deal of the Day (DOTD)


What is the difference between promotions and flash sales?
Types of Flash Sales that Amazon sellers can participate in
1. Best Deal (Savings and Sales from Across Amazon)
Weekly Flash Sales, referred to as BD, are free and usually last for 2 weeks, covering the US and Japanese sites.
2. Lighting Deal
LD for short is a time-sensitive flash sale activity, which usually lasts for 4-6 hours (different for Seller and Vendor, 4 hours in the United States and 6 hours in Europe), and each ASIN costs US$150.
Amazon clearly stipulates that products such as e-cigarettes, alcohol, adult products, medical devices, medicines, and infant formula cannot participate in Lightning Deals activities.
3. Deal of the Day
DOTD is a free promotion for one day. It is the best promotion in Amazon. It is the hardest to apply for. There are only three ad slots per day. It is very rare. When you open the Amazon App on your mobile device, the first thing that appears is Deal of the Day.

Sellers have two channels to apply:


· Lighting Deals recommendations that appear automatically in the background or apply for lighting deals under advertising in the background (the so-called recommended flash sales);


· Apply through the investment manager channel. For some new products that are not recommended, sellers can fill out the application form through the investment manager channel.


Of course, there are regulations on Amazon that tobacco, alcohol, medicines, and infant formula are not eligible for LD flash sales.


To apply for/system recommend Lighting Deals, sellers need to meet the following conditions:


Must have 4 stars or more of customer feedback;


The more reviews, the better. Electronic products need to have more than 10 customer reviews (Product Reviews).


The promotional price is 20% off or lower than the current shopping cart price (not based on the list price, but on the current shopping cart price);


You must use FBA, log in to the seller backend, enter Manage FBA Inventory, and check the FBA inventory quantity, which must be greater than 100 (recommended to be around 2000);


· Apply once a month (if recommended by the system, you can check every day when you go to work to see if there are any recommendations. If there are recommendations, you can apply for at least one, or even more than one).


· New products have a high conversion rate and will also be recommended.


3. Related videos to improve conversion rate



When browsing Amazon, you may see many sellers have a related video on the product page. Do you know what this video is? Do you want to add this one too?

Related video shorts are short videos related to the product located above the comment section of the Amazon product page, which is a high-conversion location.

This position used to belong to high-level sellers only. Many small and medium-sized sellers did not have the permission to upload videos in this position. Now we can help sellers do it. Sellers with conditions and good Review and How-to video materials can be uploaded. It is very cost-effective! If you need to upload a Related video, you can contact me.



In addition, if there are negative reviews on the homepage and it takes a long time to delete them, then having no negative reviews on the homepage will also be very helpful for conversion rate. Use the buyer's account to click "helpful" to increase the five-star reviews and remove the negative reviews. If you haven't tried it, you can try it! It will take 1-2 days at the fastest and 4-5 days at the slowest to have no negative reviews on your homepage! Combined with Related video, it will greatly improve conversion rate!
4. Review and test
1. There are many ways to submit the test, mainly through FACEBOOK

First of all, you need to find the target object when sending the test. How to find it is the first step. The methods are as follows:


· Facebook group owners: Most people will take the initiative to join Facebook group owners. If you are crazy, it will easily trigger Facebook's review mechanism and cause the account to be blocked (avoid suspicion: fake orders).


· Help from relatives and friends abroad: Ask relatives, classmates studying abroad, and work partners to help each other, and have them evaluate and introduce more people to help with the evaluation. This evaluation method has a high safety factor, but it may be time-consuming and laborious to operate.


Collect customer information under competitor listings: Track the review information under competitor listings. Many of them are left by professional reviewers. Although many of them will block their own information, some sellers will still leave their Facebook and email addresses, so we can contact them.


· Find reviewers on Chinese forums: Go to overseas Chinese forums to find reviewers. There are various BBS forums where people often organize activities and communication is very convenient, so finding reviewers through Chinese forums is a very effective method.


Reviewers you have worked with: The chicken and the egg come first. Reviewers know many of their peers, or they also have multiple accounts.


Exchange resources with peers : For example, if I am engaged in the production of Bluetooth headsets and you are engaged in the production of audio equipment, can we exchange evaluation resources? Make full use of resources and realize resource sharing.


Black technology crawls data: Use crawler software to crawl website information.

2. The review rate is recommended not to exceed 20%~30%!
Amazon customers have a relatively low rate of leaving reviews, 1-5%, especially in Germany. Therefore, you must not ask buyers to leave 100% reviews, especially for new listings. It is generally recommended that 20% of them leave reviews. As for the remaining 80%, it does not mean giving up, but telling buyers clearly that they will have to pay back in the future. When our natural traffic increases and fake orders decrease, we can take back the previous 80% of reviews, or let some of them leave feedback for the store. If the ratio is high, it is easy for Amazon robots to detect human manipulation of reviews.

3. The problem of finding people has been solved, so what are the things to pay attention to in the security assessment?

Do not ask buyers to give you review links : Amazon’s detection is becoming more and more accurate. If his account often has off-site traffic such as Facebook, WeChat, email and other channels, then Amazon will highly suspect that the reviewer is manipulating reviews. In addition, if he places more than 10 orders every day, it will be easy to get his account blocked.

Do not allow buyers to place multiple orders in the same store : You can place multiple orders for complementary products, such as buying a mobile phone with a mobile phone case, or buying an iron pot with a spatula. However, if there are dozens of orders in a store, and 5 or 6 orders for the same product, the buyer's account will be easily blocked, and our seller account will also be easily linked.

· Buyers should not review the product immediately after receiving it : Try to let the reviewer imitate normal buyers to buy and review. Some Chinese sellers ask buyers to review before they receive the product. This is a blatant manipulation of reviews and can be easily detected by Amazon. Generally, real sellers will delay reviews for a week. It is recommended to review after a week. In addition to being less likely to be detected by Amazon as fake orders, another benefit is that it allows reviewers to use the product more fully and understand the product, so that the quality of the review is higher. At the same time, we sellers should give them professional guidance because we are familiar with this product.

Do not use virtual IP and multiple VPS to fake orders : It is very dangerous to use virtual IP registration and multiple VPS to fake orders, which is a common method used by fake order companies. Amazon can 100% detect fake orders as long as they are done within the site. Therefore, it is not recommended to use virtual IP to register a small account to fake orders, as this will easily lead to his account being detected by Amazon and causing the store to be linked.

· Buyers must enter and purchase by searching for keywords : Buyers must enter and purchase by searching for keywords, not by clicking on links, in order to have weight. Generally, buyers do not understand these processes, so you have to teach them how to operate. It is recommended to browse 2 or 3 products of the same type before clicking on our products. The order time for one product should be controlled to 5 to 10 minutes, and 5 or 6 products should be compared before placing an order. What if the product does not have keyword rankings? It is recommended to use long-tail keywords to give to buyers. If the long-tail keywords are not ranked, then give him the long-tail keywords of the advertisement, which can generally be found through advertisements. And if you buy through advertisement clicks, it will be of great help to improve our weight, CPC, and Listing. If you really can't even find the advertisement, then we tell him the keywords of the store name, and compare them after searching, and don't buy immediately.

It is not advisable to leave all five-star reviews : If every buyer leaves a five-star review, it will make people feel that it is too fake and all fake. It is necessary to leave 3 or 4 star reviews occasionally. High-quality reviews and reviews that suggest product improvements are more lethal.

It is best to negotiate not to transfer money in advance : Once the transfer is made in advance, the buyer may run away. It is best to wait until the review is left before transferring the money to the foreigner. At the same time, remember to abide by the spirit of the contract and transfer the money on time, otherwise the order will be cancelled or even a bad review will be left, which will not be worth it.

5. Follow the sale
Follow-selling is a unique feature of the Amazon platform. Follow-selling means that you also sell things on the product page created by other sellers. For example: A created a product page, which is shared, and everyone can sell things on this page. B also came to this page to sell the same product, C also came to D and even more. Other sellers only need to change the price of the product to sell the same product. Other follow-selling sellers other than A do not need to edit the product text and pictures themselves to sell products. This is the Amazon follow-selling rule!

1. How to operate self-built follow-up sales: There are several ways to operate follow-up sales:


Copy the ASIN code, add a product, and sell yours.


Add product information to the page for one to sell and then sell it.


2. Will it take away the shopping cart of the original listing? This depends on the specific situation:
(As long as one of the conditions meets the requirements for obtaining the shopping cart, there is a high probability that self-built follow-up sales can snatch the shopping cart of the original listing).
Amazon’s Buy Box operates on a shared (competitive) model, so if a seller has near-perfect customer metrics or has a very competitive product price, they also have a chance of getting the Buy Box.
6. Off-site promotion
The premise of doing off-site promotion is that the site has developed to a certain extent. Doing off-site traffic diversion is to break through the existing bottleneck. If you directly put product links for off-site promotion, an important factor to consider is conversion rate.
Conversion rate is an important indicator that affects the weight of the store. If there is only traffic but no orders, the conversion rate will drop, which is not worth the loss. Therefore, when attracting traffic, you should still take the conversion rate into consideration. Unless you are posting an off-site deal, you can place an order directly on the Amazon page after receiving the code.
One of Amazon’s red lines: Attempting to divert transactions or buyers (diverting rather than diverting traffic). Any attempt to circumvent the established Amazon sales process or to divert Amazon users to other websites or sales processes is prohibited. Specifically, any advertisements, marketing messages (special offers) or “calls to buy” that lead, prompt or encourage Amazon users to leave the Amazon website are prohibited.
This includes using email or including a hyperlink, URL or web address in any seller-generated confirmation email message or in any product/listing description field.
To ensure safety, sellers can do the following when promoting products outside the site or sending links to review customers:
(1) When sending a link for review, you can choose to remove the product timestamp.
For example: amazon.com/..../dp/ASIN/ref
(2) Directly find a tool to convert the link so that the timestamps of different people clicking on it will change randomly.
If you need off-site promotion resources and services, you can scan the QR code at the end of the article for consultation!
7. What is the use of keyword hyperlinks generated by third-party tools?
Purpose or function: Improve ranking and increase search engine traffic.
Super URL is like a redirection service, similar to tinyurl.com, that generates a short URL that can be published and used throughout the Internet. This short URL redirects the user to a dynamic URL generator that will visit Amazon to create the qid parameter and search position parameter, making it look like a search on Amazon and generate a purchase. Sellers can use this link to publish links in other channels: social media, email, etc. When a user clicks on the link, the Amazon Super URL service dynamically generates the qid parameter and search ranking parameter, and then performs an HTTP 302 redirect, so it looks like the user performed a related search on Amazon. If the user purchases the product, the product will also be counted as a sale generated by this keyword, even if the buyer did not actually perform a search for the product.
8. What is the use of short links?
Short links are something that people can accept. If you see that the links used to promote Amazon products are all short URLs, such as amzn.to/xxxxx, everyone likes this kind of short link. You can tell at a glance that it is from Amazon. It is short, concise and beautiful. Click it and you will directly enter the listing purchase page. Compared with long links, short links bypass many advertisements, reduce jumps, do not waste time and traffic, and directly enter the Amazon listing page. For example: some social networking sites have a limit on the number of words for posting, such as Twitter. Short links can shorten the link length.
9. Amazon coupon home page
You may not know much about coupons on the homepage. Coupons can add a traffic entrance for sellers. The peak season is also a good time to clear inventory. Coupons have the function of CPC and promotion. You can also combine discount websites for off-site marketing... There is no requirement for coupons settings, as long as it is effective, you can control it.

Is it too long to apply for BD? Is there no recommendation from LD backend? Is DOTD not qualified?
The traffic entrance of coupon is listed with lightning deal, best deal, and deal of the deal. People who receive coupons normally have a final purchase rate of 50%, so if it is on the homepage, it can bring a lot of promotional traffic~


Amazon Coupons on the homepage is not only the first choice for new product promotion, but also can be posted even if there are no reviews. It is also a great choice for clearing inventory, increasing traffic and conversion rate. Coupons have the effect of combining CPC and promotion, and can also be combined with discount websites for off-site marketing. There are limited places on the homepage of the Coupons category, and there is little room for operation. At present, our team is definitely the first to play Coupons. There are few places, first come first served. WeChat linyu3860
10. Benefits and methods of adding category nodes on Amazon
Generally speaking, we can only choose one category when uploading products on Amazon. However, Amazon will determine whether your product is suitable for other categories. If so, it will automatically add it for you, increasing more search and exposure opportunities.
Multiple categories are automatically assigned by Amazon, and sellers have no right to choose. However, when you have multiple categories, you can apply to customer service and say that you think the category assigned by Amazon is not good and want to change it. Although the success rate is not 100%, you can still give it a try. Generally, if you want to open more category nodes, you have to pay the investment manager to add them for you, or you can add them through VC, so if you need to add nodes for your products, scan the code at the end of the article for consultation.
Adding classification nodes can increase the exposure rate in the product classification structure. Each layer in the buyer's product classification path can be called a classification node.

Depending on how the seller categorizes the product, Amazon will use the numbers in the BTG to assign the product to one or more category nodes. Specifically:

There are more search paths , which increases the exposure of your products in the classification structure.


Avoid highly competitive categories . The natural traffic allocated to each node is different, and the customer types will also be different, which will bring traffic entrances to your products and improve conversion rates.


Multiple category nodes can increase the chances of a product being searched and exposed, and can improve product rankings more quickly.


Add to small nodes, it is easier to get Best Seller, Amazon exposure doubles, better than advertising


The more accurate and specific the product classification information is, the easier it is for Amazon to place the product in the relevant product classification nodes on the website, which increases the chances of your product being searched by target customers.



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