You should never miss out on Amazon marketing services if you want to sell your stuff online. This is because Amazon is the biggest e-commerce space that you can get for your product. Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) is Amazon’s pay-per-click (PPC) platform where people get their products on the basis of keywords, products, and interests.
AMS offers Amazon Pages, Product Display Ads, Headline Search Ads and Sponsored Products Ads.
How to enter Amazon Marketing Services:
If you want to get into Amazon Marketing Services, you must have one of these –
• A Vendor Central or Vendor Express login
• An invitation to represent a vendor
• An Advantage Central login
• A Kindle Direct Publishing account
Types of AMS Ads
1. Sponsored Products Ads
These ads give sellers more control over how they want to merchandise their product on Amazon. You can increase your product visibility when people look up the keywords you have bid on along with targeted ads. You only have to pay when someone clicks on your ad and reaches your page.
With Sponsored Products, you put out the maximum cost that you are willing to pay when a shopper clicks on your ad. If your bid is more competitive, you will have better chances of getting your ad displayed when someone looks up your keywords.
You must have a regular budget for every ad campaign and keep an amount that you are willing to pay. That way, at the end of a month, your ad expenditure won’t exceed your desired daily spend. Keyword research is an important part of is also very important, so make sure you do it well.
2. Headline Search Ads
Headline Search ads build the most brand awareness as they are displayed on the top, bottom and left rail of Amazon search results. They also feature a customized design along with your logo and headline. It also consists of three products that are click bait.
Keywords help in deciding if your ad will be displayed or not. If a shopper looks for something ideal to what your keyword is, that will lead to him finding your product.
Your creatives are auto-generated and all you have to do is add a headline and image before you submit your ad for review.
Amazon displays your ad to those shoppers who use the keywords from your campaign.
With these ads, you put out the maximum cost that you are willing to pay when a shopper clicks on your ad. If your bid is more competitive, you will have better chances of getting your ad displayed when someone looks up your keywords.
The only limitation is that Amazon will not accept ads that contain or relate to certain content. Headline Search ads can be made by all approved Amazon Marketing Services accounts.
3. Product Display Ads
Product Displayed ads are on the right side of an Amazon product page. It pays more attention to the brand than the product itself. In order to display your ads, there are two targeting methods: Product and Interest. Product targeting lets you choose which pages your ad will be shown on. You can also choose your campaign settings by naming your campaign, setting a CPC bid, a campaign budget, and the time.
Your ads will appear on the product detail page, around search results, customer reviews page, on top of the offer listing page and in Amazon-generated emails. When your items go out of stock, the ads are stopped until the item is back in stock.
With Product Display Ads, you put out the maximum cost that you are willing to pay when a shopper clicks on your ad. If your bid is more competitive, you will have better chances of getting your ad displayed when someone looks up your keywords.
Using AMS also has a lot of challenges –
• Making a good impression
• You can’t bid for more than what you can afford
• Getting good conversion rates
• Getting a decent return on investment (ROI).
• Not every seller uses AMS
• Impatiently raising the bid
• Not being creative enough with targeting
When you advertise with AMS, it is an opportunity. You should use it efficiently and it also depends on the products you are getting. But, you must also remember that it won’t get you instant success. Amazon focuses on how your ad performs, good targeting and product page appeal. You should improve your targeting and your product page for better ad performance metrics.