Guide
Quick tips to optimize your Sponsored Display campaigns
For businesses who do not sell in the Amazon store
Regularly monitoring the performance of your Sponsored Display campaigns can empower you to identify optimization opportunities. Follow these steps to optimize your campaign and help drive your desired outcomes.
Tip: Start optimizing your campaign two weeks after launch.
Optimizing your campaign budget
If you want to decrease the cost per action taken on your website:
- Optimize your landing page for conversions, such as sign-ups or orders.
- Pause poor-performing audiences
(Tip: Identify these by setting up ad groups with different audience segments and UTM parameters, then analyze campaign performance by audience) - Decrease your bids when using cost-per-click (CPC) bid optimization.
If you want to reduce:
- Spend: decrease your daily budget.
- CPC: decrease your bids when using CPC bid optimization
- Cost-per-mille (CPM): decrease your bids when using vCPM bid optimization
Optimizing your campaign outcomes
If you want to increase the number of actions taken on your website:
- Increase your daily budget
- Identify new audience segments that are relevant for your business.
(Tip: Use a combination of different Amazon audiences pre-built segments, Views, and Purchases tactics) - Expand the location controls of your campaign
(Tip: Add additional relevant postal codes, or expand to cities) - Increase your bids to help win more auctions
If you want to increase your campaign click-through rate (CTR):
- Test different creative elements, such as lifestyle images and the headline.
(Tip: Your headline should focus on a benefit, which should be concise and actionable) - Pause audiences with poor CTR; try adding more relevant audiences
If you want to increase your campaign impressions and clicks:
- Identify new audience segments that are relevant to your business
(Tip: Try using a combination of different Amazon audiences pre-built segments, Views, and Purchases targeting tactics) - Expand the location controls of your campaign
(Tip: Add additional relevant postal codes, or expand to cities) - Increase your daily budget to help you win more auctions
Find a partner to help you
Find a partner who can help you plan, create, or optimize your Sponsored Display campaigns.
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