Amazon Bidding Strategy

Bidding Structure Type

When to Use

When not to Use

Notes

Fixed Bids

When you are lacking impressions, or for new product launches with strict budget controls

New campaigns - switch to down and up after 20 orders.

To control ACOS or for overspending bids. To rank KW on product launch.

 

Dynamic Down Only

For controlling campaigns where ACOS climbs too high, or for new campaigns with strict ACOS or budget goals

When seeking to gain additional traffic (impressions, sessions etc), for campaigns where data is not accumulating quickly enough

 

Dynamic Up and Down

New campaign set up with less stringent budget control (emphasis on data acquisition)

When account is overspending, when budgets are running fast/inefficiently

 

Rule Based Targeting

To meet certain ACOS Goals for Client

On new campaigns without much data

Budget rules


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