E-commerce

Amazon SEO services and agency

We get your products found in Amazon search and recommended by its AI shopping assistant, then show you what that was worth in plain numbers. One client sells $11M a year on Amazon.

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What is Amazon SEO?

Amazon SEO is the work of getting your products to rank high in Amazon's search results without paying for the position.

Amazon is not trying to answer a question. It is trying to sell something. So it ranks a listing on how likely that listing is to turn a search into an order: how closely your words match what the shopper typed, how many people click, how many of those people buy, and whether the product is in stock and ready to ship.

That is why an Amazon listing is written differently from a web page. On Google you are writing for a reader. On Amazon you are writing for someone who has already decided to buy this kind of thing and is choosing between five open tabs.

Does it match?

Amazon only shows your product for a search if your listing contains the words. Miss a term and you are invisible for it, however good the product is.

  • Title, bullets and description
  • Backend search terms, which shoppers never see
  • Image keywords in your A+ content
  • Category, browse nodes and attributes

Will it sell?

Matching gets you into the results. Selling is what moves you up them. Two listings with identical keywords rank differently because one converts better.

  • Main image, gallery and video
  • Price against the rest of the page
  • Reviews and rating
  • In stock, and holding the Buy Box

What our Amazon SEO services include

  1. 01Keyword researchWe find the words shoppers type, including the ones your competitors rank for and you do not. Search volume on Amazon rarely matches Google, so we work from Amazon's own data.
  2. 02Listing copyTitles, bullets and descriptions written to carry the keywords and still read like a person wrote them. Backend search terms filled properly, which is the most commonly wasted field on Amazon.
  3. 03Answers for AI shoppingBullets, product details and A+ copy that Amazon's assistant, Alexa for Shopping, can use to answer a shopper's question. We fill in every attribute, because a blank field is a question it cannot answer.
  4. 04A+ contentThe comparison charts and brand modules below the fold. They answer the questions that otherwise turn into a returned order, and their image keywords feed Amazon search.
  5. 05Brand storeA storefront people can browse, so a shopper who came for one product sees the rest of the range.
  6. 06Images and videoThe main image decides whether anyone clicks. We shoot and build the gallery around the objections that stop a sale.
  7. 07Catalog and variationsSizes and colours grouped so reviews pool on one listing instead of splitting across five. Duplicate and suppressed listings cleaned up.
  8. 08ReportingRank, organic sales and share of voice, in a monthly report you can read without a glossary.

Amazon SEO and AI shopping in 2026

Shoppers can now ask Amazon what to buy. Its AI assistant answers from your listing, your reviews and the questions your customers have asked.

Amazon launched the assistant as Rufus in February 2024. On 13 May 2026 it became Alexa for Shopping and moved into the search bar of the Amazon app and website. In October 2026 Amazon told investors that more than 400 million customers had used it in the past 12 months.

A shopper might ask whether a drum pump is safe with diesel, or which pressure washer suits a small patio. The assistant picks a few products and says why it chose each one. A listing that never states the answer is left off that shortlist, however well it ranks for the keyword. Sponsored ads now appear inside these conversations too.

Inside Amazon

Alexa for Shopping, which most sellers still call Rufus, builds its answer from the product page. So the page has to say things plainly.

  • Bullets that answer the questions shoppers ask
  • Every product detail and attribute filled in
  • A+ modules for comparisons, sizing and fit
  • Objections from reviews and questions, answered on the page

Outside Amazon

Since late 2025 Amazon has blocked ChatGPT, Perplexity and other outside AI shopping tools from reading its product pages. When a shopper asks one of them what to buy, the answer draws mostly on your own website, reviews and articles.

  • Your site carrying the same facts as the listing
  • Product pages with clear specs, prices and answers
  • Reviews and mentions beyond Amazon
  • The rest is answer engine optimization

How we work

Step one

Signal

We audit the catalog and pull your search term reports to find where you already rank, where you nearly rank, and which terms you are missing.

Step two

Strategy

That becomes a listing by listing plan, ordered by what will move first. You see the plan before we touch anything.

Step three

Scale

We rewrite, publish and watch what happens, then put more behind the listings that respond.

What it looks like

A listing video we shot and cut for the Amazon product page, and the store the same catalog feeds.

The listing videoZeeline, made for the Amazon product page.
The Milton Industries store on a laptop
The store behind itMilton Industries, where the same product data lives.

A+ pages we built

Amazon A+ content we wrote, designed and submitted for brands we run. It is where a listing answers the questions the bullets have no room for.

Steck DashDoc Amazon A+ page
Steck DashDocA new tool: the problem it solves, feature callouts, a three-step how-to and a comparison table.
Zeeline ZE369 Amazon A+ page
Zeeline ZE369A siphon drum pump, with a chemical-compatibility module that answers what it is safe to pump.
LTI Seal Flipper Amazon A+ page
LTI Seal FlipperAn RV slide-out tool: problem and solution, three steps, and a feature table.
E-commerce products $11M

A year in Amazon sales for one client, up 10% on the year before.

One client's past result, not a forecast for yours.
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How to choose an Amazon SEO agency

Ask to see organic sales reported apart from ad sales. An agency that cannot split the two cannot tell you whether the SEO worked.

Whoever you hire, us included, these are the questions we would ask, and the answers that would make us walk away.

Questions to ask

  • Will you show me the plan before you change a listing?
  • Who writes the copy, and who checks it?
  • Do you run the ads as well, or will another team?
  • How often will I see rank and organic sales?

Reasons to walk away

  • A promise of page one by a date. Nobody controls Amazon's ranking.
  • Talk of keyword volume with no mention of conversion.
  • Every listing rewritten at once, so nothing can be measured.
  • Paid reviews or keyword stuffing, which break Amazon's rules.

Questions people ask

What do Amazon SEO services include?

Keyword research, listing copy (titles, bullets, descriptions and backend search terms), A+ content, the brand store, images and video, and catalog clean-up, with a monthly report on rank and organic sales. Ours also cover writing listings that Amazon's AI assistant can use to answer shoppers' questions. We run Amazon Ads alongside, so ads and organic rank are planned together.

How does Amazon SEO work?

Amazon matches your listing to a search using the words in your title, bullets, description and backend search terms, plus the image keywords in your A+ content. It then orders the matching products by how likely each one is to sell, judged mostly on click rate, conversion rate, price, reviews and stock. Getting found is a writing job. Moving up is a conversion job.

How is Amazon SEO different from Google SEO?

Google ranks pages that answer a question. Amazon ranks products that will sell. Backlinks and domain authority do nothing on Amazon. Conversion rate, which barely registers on Google, is one of the strongest signals there is. The tactics that work on one platform mostly do not transfer to the other.

How long does Amazon SEO take?

Indexing for a new keyword happens within days of publishing. Ranking well for it takes longer, because Amazon needs sales history on that term before it trusts the listing. Expect early movement in the first month and a clearer picture by the third. Products with few reviews take longer than established ones.

How much do Amazon SEO services cost?

It depends on how many products you sell and how much work the listings need. Agencies usually charge a monthly fee, a fee per listing, or both. We quote after the free listing audit, once we know which listings need work.

What is Rufus, and what is Alexa for Shopping?

Rufus was Amazon's AI shopping assistant, launched in February 2024. In May 2026 Amazon renamed it Alexa for Shopping and put it in the search bar of the app and website. It answers shoppers' questions and recommends products, using the product page, reviews and customer questions. Many sellers still call it Rufus.

How do you optimize a listing for Alexa for Shopping, formerly Rufus?

Write the listing so it answers what shoppers ask before they buy: what it fits, who it suits, what it is made of and how it compares. Fill in every product detail and attribute, because a blank field is a question the assistant cannot answer. Read the reviews and customer questions for objections, then answer them in the bullets and A+ content. The keyword work still matters, because the assistant can only recommend a product it can find.

Does Amazon SEO help my products show up in ChatGPT?

Not directly. Since late 2025 Amazon has blocked ChatGPT, Perplexity and most other outside AI shopping tools from reading its product pages, so their answers draw on your own website, reviews and articles about you. Amazon SEO looks after the listing. Our answer engine optimization work looks after your site, so the same facts appear wherever a shopper asks.

Do reviews affect Amazon SEO?

Yes, through sales. Shoppers compare ratings before they click and again before they buy, so better reviews bring more orders, and more orders move a listing up. Alexa for Shopping also draws on reviews when it answers. Amazon bans paying for reviews or giving anything in return for one, outside its own Vine program, so we work on what the bad reviews complain about: a missing size chart, an unclear fit, a photo that oversells.

What are backend search terms?

A hidden field on each listing, about 250 bytes, that Amazon indexes but shoppers never see. It is where misspellings, synonyms and secondary terms belong, so the visible copy stays readable. Most accounts we audit have this field empty, half full, or filled with words already in the title, which wastes it.

Do I still need Amazon Ads if my SEO is working?

Usually, yes, and the two help each other. Ads buy visibility for a term straight away and the resulting sales feed the organic ranking for that same term. Once the listing ranks on its own, you can often spend less on it and move the budget to the next one. We run both, so the split gets decided by the numbers rather than by which team owns it.

Do you work with Walmart and other marketplaces?

Yes. Walmart, Target and the rest run from the same plan, and the product content is syndicated so a change is made once instead of five times.

What does the free listing audit include?

Send us your storefront or a few ASINs. We come back with the terms you rank for, the ones you are missing, what your listings are doing to your conversion rate, and the three things we would change first. It is free and there is no obligation.

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