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Amazon Ads for KDP

How to run profitable Amazon ad campaigns for your books — setup, bidding, targeting, and troubleshooting.

Making Amazon Ads for KDP pay off

Amazon Ads for KDP can be the fastest way to put your book in front of buyers, or the fastest way to burn your royalties. The difference is almost always setup and discipline, not budget. Authors who treat ads as set-and-forget lose money; authors who start small, watch their ACoS, and cut what doesn't convert turn ads into a steady sales channel.

Before you raise a bid on anything, you need to know which search terms actually convert for your book and which competitor pages are worth targeting. Guess wrong and you pay for clicks that never sell. The guides here cover the whole arc: setting up your first Sponsored Products campaign, reading ACoS, choosing keyword and product targets, adding negative keywords, and fixing campaigns that get no impressions.

The quickest way to stop wasting spend is to find the keywords that convert and kill the ones that don't. Our ads analyzer reads your Sponsored Products report and flags the money pits and the hidden winners, so you know where to cut and where to push.

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