The PPC Den: Amazon PPC Advertising Mastery

Running external traffic to your Amazon listing is a great idea because it boosts ranking, boosts ROAS, and there’s a brand referral kickback. However, as Bobby Pulte of Search Scientists shares, it comes with challenges, including an imperfect click-path, a lack of reporting, and indirect tracking rank. This is an obstacle we recommend you overcome because it’s highly beneficial, and this episode...

The ability to mentally zoom in and out of different metrics in Amazon influences how strong of an Amazon PPC-er you are. In this episode, Clement Hynaux, a campaign manager at Ad Badger, explains the Macro Micro Macro mental model and an example of how it applies to common metrics like Total ACOS. Tune in to learn how to begin using this approach yourself. We’ll see you in The PPC Den! 🦡 Highlig...

Is your brain as good as your computer? Probably not. Therefore, you must improve your Amazon campaign names for utility. This episode details the three levels of excellence you can achieve with extra emphasis on how to rename your campaigns in bulk. Brent Zahradnik of AMZ Pathfinder shares strategy and actionable tips in this episode of The PPC Den Podcast. We’ll see you in The PPC Den! 🦡 Highli...

You used to be able to get away with bad campaign structure on Amazon, but now it could be costing you money. Alfredo Roselli, an Ad Badger campaign manager, explains what bad campaign structure looks like, how to fix it, and what to expect after you’ve made the improvements. This is like a back-to-basics Amazon PPC episode with a 2022 twist that you won’t want to miss. We’ll see you in The PPC De...

Our biggest gripe with our newest favorite Amazon Advertising love, the Search Query Performance Dashboard (SPQD), was that it lacked an export button. Luckily for us, our guests found a solution! Mansour Norouzi of Incrementum Digital, Louis Robert of Thrasio, and Hamza Zulfiqar Tanveer of Upswing Services joined Michael this week to share their genius solution for exporting data from SQPD, and t...

Price optimization on Amazon Advertising is not as easy as just changing the price. Chad Rubin of Profasee outlines behaviorial science and behaviorial economics with Michael to illustrate why, when, and how to make changes to your pricing strategy. Modifying your price point influences everything, including profit, and many marketers don’t test often enough. Maybe that’ll change after you listen...

Too often we notice that the majority of spend disappears in auto campaigns because of an excess of irrelevant search terms, also known as Death By A Thousand Cuts.  Prevent wasting spend on non-converting search terms with our N-Gram Analysis Tool now, available here . Disclaimer: Apologies for the poor audio. Thank you for your patience and understanding. We’ll see you in The PPC Den! 🦡 Hi...

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all of the strategies available for all of the campaign types, even more so when Amazon releases anything new. Don’t freak out. You need a strong mental model like the one Noemi Bolojan of ScaleWave.io shares in this episode. Once you understand the different strategies– protect, conquer, rank, dominate, and discover– you’ll be able to categorize your needs by strat...

There are clues in your data that signal when it’s time to refresh your Amazon product pages, and Emma Schermer-Tamir of Marketing by Emma points out where to look and what it means, considering impression, CTR, customer conversion rate, and return rate. Who said data couldn’t impact creative growth? Not us. We’ll see you in The PPC Den! 🦡 Highlights ​​ 0:00 Intro– Think like a physical retail st...

Amazon’s new Marketing Stream promises more granular data in real-time, more reporting dimensions, a simplified workflow, and more. Does it live up to its hype? Ad Badger’s CTO, Nickholas Isber, dissects Marketing Stream’s functionality to offer you a better understanding of its capabilities, its limits, and why it even exists. We’ll see you in The PPC Den! 🦡 Highlights ​​ 0:00 Intro– Meet Ad Bad...

If you like hearing us talk about equations and spreadsheets, this will be your gold. Stephen Noch of Ocean PPC joins Michael to rehash everything great about Amazon PPC now, including the most exciting features, the strategies and tasks they most use to stay ahead of the competition, and everything they wish you knew about this ever-evolving niche.  We’ll see you in The PPC Den! 🦡 Highlight...

Because Amazon Advertising is an ever-evolving platform and brands can’t bank on easy wins like before, Destaney Wishon of Better AMS and Michael Facchin must continue clarifying what key metrics and KPIs any smart PPC-er should have to consider to drive sales without wasting ad spend. We’ll see you in The PPC Den! 🦡 Highlights 0:00 Intro– Words can’t espresso what you mean to us 1:54  Why w...

Brent Zahradnik of AMZ Pathfinder joins Michael to consider the capabilities of Amazon’s new feature, Expanded Product Targeting. It’s like broad match product targeting because it allows you to target substitutes, compliments, and other “relevant” items shoppers may browse. This is potentially great for non-PPCers and anyone in a growth phase but proceed with caution if you’re an Amazon Campaign...

Whether you’re an Amazon entrepreneur or a brand owner, you need guidance with your financial metrics. You might be growing your business, but if you aren’t excellent with your finances, you could lose the money you thought you had. Nobody wants that! That’s why we’re excited to have Christian Rivera from The Ecommerce Accountant back to discuss daily and monthly financial health checks, outsourci...

Hopefully, by now you know that you should digest your high-level data weekly. What, however, should that data consist of? This week, Elizabeth Greene of Junglr joins Michael to share the core metrics, ratio metrics, and product-level metrics they track weekly. They also discuss how these reports can be customized depending on one’s definition of success– hey, it varies!-- and also different ways...

Disclaimer: Do not listen to this episode at double the speed or you will miss valuable acronyms, definitions, and equations. You’ve been warned! If you’re like the Ad Badger App client who recently requested a feature that stops bids when a product goes out of inventory, we have an alternative solution: don’t go out of stock in the first place. If this sounds easier said than done, it’s not; it’s...

In this episode, Michael helps you understand a type of analysis that you can prepare in just a few minutes that will help you understand the overall health of your Amazon Advertising account. Michael poses a question we often ask when interviewing campaign managers and then thoroughly provides the correct answer while offering steps for how to do this for yourself. We’ll see you in The PPC Den! H...

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...

It’s one thing to tune into the podcast every week, and another to systematically apply all the tips we offer. This episode pieces together the steps while telling a true story by Ad Badger’s CEO, Michael Facchin, as he shares a recent coaching win from a client who reached his ACOS goals quickly. The steps are easy– review the fundamentals, optimize your bids, control your search terms, trim the...

Last week on the podcast, we talked about how few people are watching your Sponsored Brand Videos. This week, Laura Meyer of Envision Horizons joins Michael to sway you to get an early mover advantage in Sponsored Display Video, currently in beta. Laura lists strategies for different budgets and overviews best practices for all of your Amazon Advertising video needs, including a template for succe...

We hope you aren’t blowing your entire budget on Sponsored Brand Videos because the data tells us that nobody is watching your video, and it doesn’t matter. In this episode, Brent Zahradnik of AMZ Pathfinder joins Michael to break down the impact your videos are making, if any, and to highlight how to optimize your video, if you deem it even matters. We’ll see you in The PPC Den! Highlights 0:00 I...

If you’re listening to this, we bet you want operational excellence for your Amazon business, including cleaner systems to be a healthy, high-functioning operation. This week, Blair Forrest of AMZ Prep shares actionable strategies using Google sheets, all about FBA and FBM, healthy checks and balances, and advice to keep ads on, and touched on the excitement about NARF. Please consider this the be...

Let’s say you log into Amazon and what you see is wildly different than last week; you have over 100 new campaigns. How do you determine where to focus your time to discover what changed and where? Insert the export button. This week, Ryan and Michael quickly overview a tip you can use quickly. The export button is a simple feature that can save you time at the campaign and keyword level and it ca...

The Amazon DSP looks snazzy and appealing, and there’s a lot of content about it on the web. (We’ve created some of it too!) Most of the existing content on Amazon DSP fails to answer the basic FAQs, like what’s the point of it and how do you get it? It’s expensive, and is it worth it? Joe Shelerud from Ad Advance joins Michael to answer these questions and more. We’ll see you in The PPC Den! High...

There is a new report in Amazon’s Brand Analytics that tells you what your top 1000 most important search queries are and ranks them. It’s the first time we have first-party conversion data per query, and we are very excited about it! This is episode is meaty, chunky, and informative, so you might need to pause and re-listen a few different times to absorb it all. We’ll see you in The PPC Den! Hig...