Micro Targeting

Hey,

Better late than never! Today's email is more than 12 hours late as my parents and Grandma came to visit us, so we've had a lovely day outside in the garden.

The boys are now asleep and as we wind down for the evening, I thought I'd take 20 minutes to write this email to you.

And today's topic is all about micro-targeting...

What do I mean by micro-targeting? Essentially, only targeting a very small number of targets in any one campaign.

If you've ever run campaigns targeting hundreds of keywords, ASINs or categories, you'll have witnessed Pareto's Principle first hand.

20% of your targets will be generating 80% of your sales and/or page reads.

I know I bang on about this a lot, but trust me, you'll see the best results from Amazon Ads when you are focusing your budget on the minority that are generating the majority.

Getting practical then... here's what I recommend when you're micro-targeting:

- Keywords: 10-15 per campaign (separate campaigns for each Match Type - Broad, Phrase and Exact)
- ASINs: 10-15 per campaign
- Categories: 1 per Ad Group (3 Ad Groups per campaign - more Ad Groups with bigger budgets)

The days of targeting 100's of keywords (or ASINs or categories) in a single campaign, are long gone.

Yes, these spaghetti on the wall campaigns can still work, to a degree, but your results will be disappointing, not only because there just isn't enough budget to be spread out across so many targets, but also because of relevance.

Relevance plays a bigger role in Amazon Ads than many advertisers think. So, keep every single target you test as relevant as you possibly can with micro-targeting.

To Your Success
- Matt