Amazon Product Ads is an advertising program designed to provide Amazon.com customers seamless access to products available on external Web sites. As a seller, you simply upload your catalog and set your cost-per-click bids and budget. Amazon will then display your ads to Amazon.com customers when they shop for your product or related products. Customers who are interested in buying your product can click through to your Web site and purchase the product directly from you.

Amazon will use a variety of placements to drive targeted traffic to your products and web site. If you have products which are not currently available on Amazon, we will use the product details you provide to create a new product page. These products will be available in search, browse and on related product pages. If your products are the same or similar to existing products on Amazon, we will display your ads on existing product pages targeting customers who are looking for products like yours.

In an effort to drive the best results for our customers and sellers, Amazon is continually testing and optimizing Product Ads placements. As such, these placements will vary and evolve over time with the objective of getting your products in front of our customers in the most customer-centric way..

You can sign up today and advertise your products in the Baby, Computers, Electronics, Health and Beauty, Home, Home Improvement, Office, Sports, and Toys categories.

Advertising in Shoes, Jewelry and Watches categories is available but is restricted. To submit a request to advertise in one of these categories click here.

The Selling on Amazon program gives sellers the opportunity to list and sell products on Amazon.com. Amazon Services manages the purchase transaction for sellers who participate in the Selling on Amazon program. As a result, sellers do not need to maintain their own point-of-sale Web site. Product Ads, on the other hand, allows sellers with existing Web sites to advertise their products on Amazon.com. In addition, Amazon Product Ads sellers have direct control over the purchase process allowing for merchandising of related products and tighter integration with an existing brand experience.

Your conversion rate will differ by product and will be impacted by the quality of the product data you provide, volume of products you list and conversion on your own Web site. Amazon charges you on a cost-per-click basis.

To get a good understanding of how Amazon Product Ads will work for your business we recommend listing your full range of products and investing time in providing good product data. With over 44 million customers each month you never know which of your products are going to be in demand and good product data helps us optimize the placement of your ads and delivers a good customer experience.

Amazon makes it clear on your advertising to customers that they are linking to an external Web site. We will use terminology in your ads like “Available at external Web site: YourCompany”, “Product X, available at YourURL” and “Similar items available at external Web sites”.

You can set your Product Ads to “Inactive” at any time from the Account Info page under the Settings tab. On this page you will see your Product Ads Status where you can change it from Active to Inactive and vice versa

The Sponsored Links placement includes Amazon Clickriver ads for services and a range of products from third party ad networks. Sellers using third party ad networks cannot directly influence which products are included in this placement. The only way to ensure your products are advertised to Amazon customers is by using Amazon Product Ads

A distinguishing feature of Amazon Product Ads is that you are able to provide customers with detailed product and offer information at no charge. This helps customers make a better buying decision which means we deliver you more qualified customers.

The quality of the information you provide about your products will impact your return on investment and Amazon’s ability to best target your ads.

To create your ads you will need to provide the following information:

Category	This information is used to identify the product type and locate it in an Amazon store. Example of Good Categorization: Home & Garden > Bedding & Bath > Bedding > Bedspreads & Coverlets Baby Products > Bathing & Skin Care > Bathing Tubs & Seats Examples of Bad Categorization: Receivers and Speakers Gifts for Her
Product Title	Four- to eight-word title for each unique product without abbreviations.Examples: Hamilton Beach 40911 2-Quart Electric Iced Tea Maker Kenneth Cole Reaction Short Wool Hipster, Black, Medium
SKU	A unique Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) for each product.
URL	A link to the product page on your website from which the customers can purchase the item.
Image	Your image should be on white background, ideally 500x500 pixels with the product occupying more than 80 percent of the total space. A good quality image will improve the quality of traffic we drive to your site.
Product price and shipping price	Your product price plus shipping price are displayed to customers in your Product Ads and influence ad ranking.
UPC	Using a valid UPC will increase matching accuracy but is not required. If you have UPCs, we recommend using them. A UPC is unique to each product, is 12 digits and is usually provided by the manufacturer, brand owner or licensed distributor.
Product Description	A product description provides customers with detailed information about the product including key features.

You can create a new product file, from our Product Ads file template, or modify an existing product file. A product file can be uploaded to Seller Central manually or, for frequent updates or files of size larger than 10 MB, via FTP. If you use Yahoo! Store, you can upload a Yahoo! Store file manually or sync your Yahoo! Store to Product Ads. If you use Google Base, you can upload a Google Base file manually.

Yes, you can add up to five keywords for each product. We suggest using words or phrases that best describe the product. This will help Amazon.com find your product ad and display it in customer searches on our Web site. Please note that there is a 50-character limit on a single keyword.

Your ads will appear on search, browse and product pages across a range of categories including:

• Baby
• Computers
• Consumer Electronics
• Health and Personal Care
• Home and Garden
• Office Products
• Sports and Outdoors
• Tools and Home Improvement
• Toys
• Beauty
• Jewelry and Watches
• Shoes

Amazon determines where your ads appear based on what is most relevant to customers.

You can advertise any product in the Baby, Computers, Electronics, Health and Beauty, Home, Home Improvement, Office, Sports or Toys categories.

If you’d like to advertise in the Jewelry and Watches or Shoes categories, you can submit a request here.

The items most suitable for the Amazon Product Ads program are those which require a brand or buying experience not supported by the Amazon shopping cart. For example, products which need to be customized in the order process or products that benefit from unique merchandising and presentation (for example, furniture, personalized products, collections).

Product Ads uses a cost-per-click pricing model that takes into account the price and category of the advertised product.

Each product category will be divided into three price tiers with minimum cost-per-click rates . Your bids will be set to the minimum rate when you create an account. You will only be charged for traffic we refer to your website. There are no monthly fees and no minimum monthly spend.

You will be asked to provide credit card information when you set up a Product Ads account. This is a pay by credit card program.

Product Ads is a post-pay service. This means that a balance will accrue in your account as your ads accumulate clicks. After an initial charge of $1.00, we extend you a measured amount of credit in accordance with a payment ladder with credit levels between $50 and $500.

The first time we charge you will be when you accrue your first $1 of advertising after you’ve opened your account. This allows us to validate your credit card details.

Thereafter, the frequency with which we charge your card depends on how much activity your account generates and the daily budget you’ve set. The first credit level is $50 and we will charge your card three days after the end of each calendar month or each time you reach this credit limit. This means your credit card may be charged multiple times in a month. If you do not exceed your current credit level during the month, you will only be charged once for that month.

If you consistently exceed the credit level of $50, we will move you up one level of credit from $50 to $150. We will continue to adjust your credit level based on your activity and budget moving to $200, $350, and so on with a maximum credit level of $500.

The minimum daily budget that you can set is equal to the minimum cost of 1 click. The minimum cost of 1 click depends on the category your products are advertising but ranges from $0.10 - $1.35.

As soon as your pro-rata daily budget is met, your ads will be removed from Amazon.com. We recommend that you set a budget which you can afford, monitor your results, and then adjust accordingly.

Your daily budget determines your maximum advertising spend in any calendar month. For example, if your daily budget is $100 we will adjust your daily advertising spend to total no more than $3100 in a 31 day calendar month. This means that if on day 1 we deliver you $50 of advertising, on day 2 we will deliver you up to $150 of advertising in line with a monthly pro-rata spend of $200.

You need to set your budget for your ads to be active. The amount you enter is the average daily amount you are willing to spend over a calendar-month. For example, if you set your daily budget at $100, Amazon will deliver you up to $3100 worth of clicks in that calendar month assuming your start on the 1st day of a 31 day month. At the end of the month the average daily value of your advertising spend will not exceed your desired daily spend. However, on any given day you can spend less or more than your actual daily budget. For example, if your budget is $100 and you spend is $50 on the 1st day of the month, Amazon will deliver you up to $150 worth of advertising on the 2nd of the month. This would bring your total monthly spend over 2 days to $200 in line with your budget.

We work hard to deliver highly qualified traffic to advertisers by providing customers with detailed product information before referring them to your website and our costs-per-click reflect this. Feedback from sellers is that return on investment from Amazon Product Ads is competitive with other sources of traffic.

We currently have a promotion offering a $75 credit toward clicks for new sellers that go live by 3/31/11. You can share the following information with your clients about this promotion: Sign Up for Amazon Product Ads and get $75 worth of Free Clicks when you go live.

Looking for a new way to drive traffic to your website? Amazon Product Ads is a cost per click advertising program that puts your products in front of millions of Amazon.com customers. With no monthly fees or minimum spend- simply upload your products, set your budget, and you’re live!

Yes. You can download the full rate card here:

Yes. You can access the Product Ads feed format here.

We also accept Google Base text and Yahoo catalog.xml files.

Amazon Product Ads is great way to drive traffic to your clients' websites from tens of millions of engaged and active Amazon.com customers. Ads are highly targeted to only those customers searching for your clients' products or those like it. Customers can learn about your clients' products on Amazon.com driving more qualified shoppers to your clients' websites.

We provide a few ways to keep you informed about the latest enhancements to the Product Ads program. Sign-up to receive our monthly newsletter directly to your email inbox. If you missed any of our previous editions you can catch up on previous newsletters. Don't forget to bookmark the Amazon Seller Support Blog to learn about strategies and best practices for selling on Amazon.com. Encourage your clients to take advantage of these resources as well.

To keep up to date with account activity, be sure your notifications preferences are up to date for each account you manage. Read about all of our automated notification types here.

We do not work from Insertion Orders for Amazon Product Ads. Product Ads operates under an at-will agreement that puts you in control of turning off or restarting your Product Ads campaigns.

No, you cannot register a new account with the same name as an existing account. Across all Amazon Services a specific seller name can only be used once. If your client wants to use multiple Amazon programs for the new account you can modify the name by adding or removing spaces or underscores in the seller name. Note that you cannot create an account in any program using a URL that includes any URL extension (i.e. .com, .net, .biz, etc.).

To get your clients live we recommend submitting your Product Ads feed to the Amazon FTP server. This is the best option for sending a custom Product Ads feed in an automated fashion. You will need a separate FTP account for each of your clients. For instructions on how to set up your FTP folder click here.

Product Ads does not have specific times for processing uploads. Sellers can upload their files up to 5 times per day. We process files on a continuous basis. When you submit your file, it will enter a queue for processing. The time to process is dependent on the size of your feed and volume of feeds already in the queue to process.

Amazon Product Ads has a specialist Seller Support team that focuses exclusively on working with our Product Ads sellers. We offer three options to get all of your questions answered - online, e-mail, and phone. To contact our Seller Support team, log in to Seller Central at sellercentral.amazon.com and click on the link for Help in the top right corner.

Online Help: Here you can find answers to common questions.

E-mail or Phone: Click the "Get Technical Support" button on the top right of your screen. Select the category that relates to your question in step 1. In Step 2, select to submit your question by email or phone. Provide as much detail as possible about your question. This helps us to answer you accurately and quickly. Email questions will be responded to with 24 hours. Phone support is available 7 days a week 8AM to 8PM CT.

No, we do not currently support a master log-in for groups of accounts. Each account you manage will have its own log-in credentials and you will have to access each account separately.

We recommend that you work with your client to either transition the primary account owner credentials over to you or add you as a secondary user to the existing account. We do not recommend creating a new account. Keeping the same account allows you to preserve the relevance ranking that has built up for your account. When you create a new account the existing relevance ranking will be lost.

Changing the primary account owner credentials
Click here for instructions on how to change log-in Settings. (Seller Central log-in required)

Adding you as a secondary account owner
Click here for instructions on setting up additional User Permissions. (Seller Central log-in required)

Creating a new account
In the event that you must create a new account coordinate the transition with your client so that when the old account is turned off the new account is turned on. Make sure essential product data like SKU, UPC and Title remain the same in your clients product feed. This will maximize the likelihood items are processed in the same way as previous uploads. Register here.

For the Jewelry, Shoes and Watches categories Amazon limits the selection added to the store in order to provide our customers with the best shopping experience possible. To learn more about our listing requirements in these categories click here.

Here are our top tips for maximizing seller performance on Product Ads.

1. Load your full product catalog to get maximum exposure.
We have millions of customers looking for products on Amazon.com. When you load your full catalog you are giving yourself the best chance to capture this demand and get the most traffic and sales.

2. Add UPCs for your products.
Including UPCs in your Product Ads feed will increase the accuracy of matching and speed up processing time. It is the best way to make your items discoverable by customers.

3. Provide descriptive product titles.
Good product titles help customers find and identify your products. Include information like Brand, Model, Manufacturer, Model Number, Product Name and Defining features. Example: "Nine West Women's Yogini Rain Boot."

4. Include images on white background.
In an Amazon.com test, we found that adding a good quality image to a detail page increased page views by >60% and orders by >25%. Make sure you use high resolution images on white background. Your images should be at least 500x500 pixels in size.

5. Add additional data about your products.
You can give customers more information before they click to your website by including information like product dimensions, feature bullet points, and multiple product images. Download our file template from the Upload Product Ads page in Seller Central to see all of the field options.

6. Set up your account notifications.
In the Settings tab in Seller Central you can specify where critical and informational notices about your account are sent. Make sure you are immediately notified when account activity occurs that can take your ads offline. It is especially important to monitor out of budget events as Amazon.com continues to grow quickly with North American revenue up 37% YoY in Q4 2009. Include at least two email addresses for each account notification to avoid missing important messages and ensuring we have a back-up contact for when you decide to take that long awaited vacation. Read about our automated notification types here.