The PPC Den: Amazon PPC Advertising Mastery

Amazon recently launched a new feature on some Advertising accounts, the New Opportunity Tab. It offers six different “opportunities,” but are any of these actually good for your ROI? Brent Zahradink from AMZ Pathfinder joins Michael to dissect which opportunities to consider and how to integrate them (or not) into your existing Amazon PPC strategy for optimal results. We’ll see you in The Badger...

Understanding Amazon PPC data is one thing, but explaining those numbers to a client can be challenging if clients often think in simplistic “good” or “bad” terms when, in reality, the metrics tell a greater narrative. In this episode of The PPC Den, freelance Amazon consultant and ad manager, Stephen Noch, joins Michael Facchin to share examples on how to interpret the numbers behind Amazon Adver...

Is building a community the right strategy for your Amazon business? This week, Noemi Bolojan, co-host of the Wizards of Ecom podcast, joins Michael to share her experience building a community around her passion and then directing that traffic to her business. The advice shared in this episode may not be suitable for ALL of The PPC Den’s listeners, but it may encourage a select few of you to thin...

Google Ads is the simplest and most impactful way to drive external traffic to Amazon. In this episode, we team up with Adam Heist to explore why to do it, how to do it, and when to do it. Adam shares first-hand experience with successfully driving external traffic. If you want to boost your ROI, this might be the simplest and most impactful way of doing so. Previous Google Ads experience is not r...

The most successful Amazon marketers think big-picture about their teams. Does your Amazon Growth Team contain these nine key players? In this week’s epic episode, Michael and Steven Pope take inspiration from Marvel Cinematic Universe to explain which superhero is the best metaphorical hire for each role that your business needs for perfect synergy. Note: While having Avengers knowledge is benefi...

Destaney Wishon from BetterAMS joins Michael this week to discuss why everyone loves Total ACOS. It’s an important metric, but tackling it is often misunderstood. In this episode, they discuss what influences Total ACOS, how to set goals specifically for Total ACOS, and why bid optimization is the magic behind it all. This episode also features Ad Badger’s very first giveaway! Listen to find out h...

Should we segment branded keywords? It’s been almost two years since Ad Badger last shared opinions on segmenting branded keywords. Our consensus then: too much effort for the results. Clifford Donovan, a Senior Amazon Media Buyer at Pilothouse Digital, convinces Michael that segmenting branded keywords is more important than ever because of Amazon’s spike in CPC costs. Learn if it’s ever not wort...

Michael recently joined Steven Pope from My Amazon Guy for a special live-stream event to answer any and all PPC questions. Hear the replies to 30 questions in a bit under an hour on topics ranging from the ultra-specific to more generalized advice for every type of PPC-er and advertiser. There are a lot of golden gems in this episode, and we recommend listening with a pen and notebook handy. We’l...

If 100% of your time is solely devoted to growing PPC sales, then you are missing most pieces of the marketing puzzle. Advertisers, this is your wake-up call. Ryan and Mike overview 5 of the most important factors that influence Amazon ranking, speed round style. By learning about seller authority, impressions and CTR, conversion rate, existing sales on Amazon, and off site sales, you’ll finish th...

Ad Badger is hiring an Amazon PPC Digital Marketer, and this position is a bit different than the average PPC manager listing because we’re looking for someone who will manage only a small roster of clients as well as contribute to the growth and improvement of the Ad Badger App and The PPC Den Podcast. Learn more about the opportunity now. Highlights: 0:00 Intro - We’re Hiring 0:45 Manage a small...

A common question from listeners is “why did my ACOS spike?” In this quick episode, Michael offers four action steps for discovering why ACOS increased. Follow these steps to become an advanced Amazon PPC-er. Until next time, stay badgery! Highlights: 0:00 How to diagnose causes of ACOS increase 1:10 Pro tip: bulk file back-ups 2:16 What NOT to do when diagnosing ACOS increase 3:30 1st step: Dig d...

Elizabeth Greene from Junglr joins us to talk about keywords with low clicks and low sales or no sales. Sometimes we have a new account or product, or we may try to scale and grow lots of new keywords at once, and we  accumulate “ACOS Jumpers.” This episode provides complete action steps on what to do about low clicks in your Amazon Advertising with two different strategies depending on wheth...

Amazon Advertising sneakily released a duo of new features to select marketplaces: the New Budget Tab and the New Budget Report. Our favorite duo, Michael Facchin and Brent Zahradnik from AMZ Pathfinder, dissect how to maximize efficiency with this new PPC combo. Together, the New Budget Tab and New Budget Report offer important glimpses into a campaign’s performance, including how much time any g...

PPC Optimization is expanding to ACOS Optimization, which consists of PPC and conversion rates. The solution to lowering the rise of CPC is not any one thing, but a surefire plan. This episode of The PPC Den overviews what to expect in the new PPC Boosters Series, outlining several non-PPC components of conversion rates that a PPC-er should know if they’re tasked with boosting ACOS. We’ll see you...

Amazon PPC’s Automatic Sponsored Product Campaigns-- everybody’s favorite, right? Usually not. We often see auto-campaigns with unruly, high ACOS. Should we segment our automatic sponsored product campaigns? In other words, should we create four separate campaigns, one each for compliments, substitutions, close match, and loose match? Michael and Michael analyzed a few million ad groups from Ad Ba...

Any Amazon PPC-er who has been around the block a few times knows not to pause campaigns if you can help it. But do circumstances exist where you should pause your Amazon Advertising campaigns? If so, what are they?  Here to discuss this with us is former guest-host and current Badger Den member Ryan Hofacre.   We’ll see you in The Badger Den!   Highlights:  1:05 Intro  10...

Amazon Prime Day 2021 is less than a week away. Do you have everything you need to take advantage of this potential windfall of sales? We're here to walk you through everything you need to make this Prime Day a success, from pre-emptive optimization to budgeting to special campaigns and more.   We'll see you in The Badger Den!   1:05 Intro  3:47 Preparing for Prime Day  8:30 Pr...

In your efforts to conquer your Amazon PPC keywords, you might find that your greatest foe is yourself. Keyword constriction starves your best keywords and newer keywords of the ad spend they need to reach their fullest potential and net as many clicks and conversions as possible. There's a 50/50 chance that this phenomenon is wreaking havoc in your Amazon campaigns. Learn what keyword constrictio...

Want to see if you're making an impression on your customers and how you stack up against the competition? Check out the Search Term Impression Share report! Elizabeth Greene from Junglr joins us again as we break down what this new report is and how you can use it to optimize your Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands campaigns.   We'll see you in The Badger Den!   Links & Resourc...

Every Amazon seller wants to see their account grow, prosper, and scale. Growing your Amazon account is like a snowball: the more you scale, the easier it is to scale even more. If you're smart about the strategies you use to scale, you can become one of the top dogs in your category on Amazon. This week, we're here to break down different strategies you can use to build up your Amazon Advertising...

With the changing of the seasons upon us, many Amazon sellers with seasonal demand are making changes to their PPC campaigns to either capitalize on peak demand or minimize wasted ad spend during the off-season. Optimizing for seasonality is a careful balancing act that requires discipline and know-how.   Brent Zahradnik from AMZPathfinder joins us as we break down how you can address and wor...

The key to truly effective and insightful Amazon report analysis is taking the right approach. Using your Amazon campaign reports the right way requires a disciplined process. We're here to walk you through our philosophy when it comes to looking at Amazon Advertising reports and making data-driven decisions.   We'll see you in The Badger Den!   Links & Resources  Companion Blog...

Amazon Sponsored Display just got a lot more awareness-boosting power with the release of not one, but four new audience types. We're here to break down what these new Sponsored Display audiences are, whether or not you should use them, and how to integrate them into your existing Amazon Advertising to boost impressions and capture more market share.   We'll see you in The Badger Den!  ...

Sponsored Display on Amazon is a great way to retarget shoppers and rake in sales that otherwise would go to your competitors. We have Sponsored Display retargeting down to a science with our Sponsored Display double-tap strategy. It's a foolproof way to perfect your product targeting by capitalizing on your best products and keywords.   Join us as we break down our strategy for giving your b...

It can be hard to organize everything your Amazon Advertising needs. That's why we came up with an Amazon PPC checklist.  It's filled with lots of things that you can do right now to improve your Amazon Advertising, plus links to all kinds of relevant blog posts to help you get started. Check out the checklist here:  http://bit.ly/AMZChecklist We'll see you in The Badger Den!   Link...