Arnott: Amazon's A9 algorithm rewards keyword stuffing despite official best practices
Andy Arnott · SellerSEO Gets Booted From Stripe, Now Rebounding and Bootstrapped · Jun 18, 2020 · at 4:24
Andy Arnott, founder of Seller SEO, discusses how Amazon's search algorithm differs from modern search engines and how sellers optimize listings.
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“The Amazon A nine algorithm is similar to Google was like five years ago. So they're kind of behind the curb. So keyword stuffing is, you know, even though they tell you know, best practice not to do it we've seen over and over again that the companies that are doing that are the ones who are doing well.”
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