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Amazon Search Term Reports Explained: Finding What to Add and What to Cut

A quick guide to reading your Keyword Intelligence results, and using them the right way.

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Section 1

What the Tool Shows You

Upload your Amazon search term report, and the tool sorts your search terms into three groups: word combinations worth adding as new keywords, single words worth cutting, and words that signal what your listing content should emphasise.

You don't need to clean the file first, just export the standard search term report from Campaign Manager and upload it as-is.

Section 2

The Core Term, and Why It's Worth Checking

As soon as your file loads, the tool auto-detects a "Core Term": the word or phrase your product is fundamentally about, like "lip tint" or "spin scrubber". This isn't just a label, it's a filter. Harvest suggestions only include word combinations that contain this term, so the tool never recommends adding a keyword unrelated to your product.

Always glance at the Core Term before running the analysis. It's shown in an editable box marked "auto-detected". For most products it gets this right on its own, but for niche or multi-word products, take a moment to correct it if it looks off, since a wrong Core Term means your harvest results get filtered against the wrong thing entirely.
Section 3

Reading Your Results

Add These

Harvest

Word combinations that contain your Core Term and are converting well. These are safe candidates to add as new keywords.

Cut These

Negation

Single words spending money across your search terms with no orders to show for it. Worth negating to stop wasting budget.

Theme Insight

Words converting well but not a keyword suggestion on their own, more a signal for what your listing title and bullets should emphasise.

ASIN Targets

Search terms that are actually competitor or your own product ASINs, not typed phrases. Shown separately since they represent product targeting, not keyword targeting.

Section 4

The One Thing to Check Before You Act

This tool judges words purely by spend and conversion in your uploaded file, it doesn't know what a word means to your product.

Why this matters: a word central to your product's identity can still get flagged for negation if enough other, unrelated search terms containing that word fail to convert elsewhere in your file. Always check flagged words against your actual product name before negating, especially for words that are obviously part of what you sell.
Section 5

Using Your Results

Start with negation, cutting clearly wasteful words is the fastest win with no downside once you've sanity-checked them against your product identity.

Add harvest suggestions as new keywords, at whatever match type suits your campaign structure.

Use theme insights as direction for your listing content rather than treating them as keyword suggestions to add directly.

Ready to run your own report?

Upload your search term report and see exactly what to add and what to cut.

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