Tackle 70% Wasted Spend with N-Gram Laddering in Amazon Ads

2025-04-11

You're listening to the PPC Den Podcast.In this episode, I’m diving into a topic that’s been on my mind lately. It all started when I was cleaning up a client's search term report. At first glance, things looked fine. Decent ACoS, plenty of conversions, nothing too dramatic. So I kept digging. And that’s when I noticed it — this pattern inside the search terms. A couple of words, just two or three, that kept repeating across multiple phrases. That’s when it hit me — this is an N-Gram problem.In today’s episode, I’ll walk you through what N-Gram Laddering is, how I used it to clean up that account, and how...

You're listening to the PPC Den Podcast.

In this episode, I’m diving into a topic that’s been on my mind lately. It all started when I was cleaning up a client's search term report. At first glance, things looked fine. Decent ACoS, plenty of conversions, nothing too dramatic.

So I kept digging. And that’s when I noticed it — this pattern inside the search terms. A couple of words, just two or three, that kept repeating across multiple phrases. That’s when it hit me — this is an N-Gram problem.

In today’s episode, I’ll walk you through what N-Gram Laddering is, how I used it to clean up that account, and how you can apply it to your own search term reports. If you’ve ever felt like your campaigns are doing okay, but not great — this might be the insight you didn’t know you needed.

We’ll see you in The PPC Den!

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